I specialise in all matters relating to: • Gamekeeping • Pest and predator control • Sporting shooting, including safety, competence, firearms usage and compliance with best practice • Legal and illegal traps and trapping • Poaching of gamebirds, hare, rabbit, deer and fish • Hunting with hounds, terriers and coursing dogs

Very experienced practitioner specialising in health and safety/food safety matters since 1988, including 9 years as an enforcement Environmental Health Officer and Appointed Health & Safety Inspector • Particular areas of expertise include investigation of workplace injuries and fatalities, risk assessment and risk management • Further expertise as a Chartered Environmental Health Practitioner with respect to food contamination, HACCP, food processing, pest control, alleged food poisoning and food-borne injury/ill health Author of Food Emergencies - A Practica...

• Dispute resolution claims, adjudication and arbitration • Professional negligence claims - Philip regularly acts for parties that are seeking compensation from a negligent surveyor or representing surveyors where an allegation of negligence has been made • Expert witness reports acting as a claimant, defendant and/or single joint expert in building dispute matters • Party wall consultant and published author on the Party Wall Act, first person to undertake doctoral research into the Party Wall, etc., Act 1996 • Landlord and tenant dilapidation di...