Paul graduated with a first in law at Peterhouse, Cambridge. He qualified as a solicitor in 1977 and became a partner in what is now Freeths in 1980. He is now a (very) part time Consultant.
A Past President of both the Nottinghamshire Law and the Nottinghamshire Medico-legal Societies in 2000 he was appointed one of the first three Senior Fellows of the APIL. He was national secretary and an executive committee member of APIL between 1998 and 2000.
He is an accredited APIL clinical negligence specialist. He also specialises in clinical personal injury and product liability cases and is well known as a co-ordinator of multi-party actions and the creative use of settlement schemes. He successfully negotiated compensation schemes following the claims brought by the parents of the victims of Beverley Allitt; patients who had received 3M and ABG hip prostheses; women who had received Trilucent and Hydrogel breast implants, women who received faulty cervical smear results and children who had wrongly been diagnosed with and treated for epilepsy. Now largely retired from day to day practice he still acts for victims of mycobacterium chimaera contracted from defective heater cooler units used in heart operations.
Building on his creation of successful alternative dispute settlement schemes in his historical specialist area of clinical negligence, personal injury and product liability Paul has developed into a successful mediator. Paul is an ADR accredited mediator, a Director of Trust Mediation and Trust Arbitration and a member of the Sport Resolutions, Oxford Mediation and Clerksroom mediation panels.
He is General Editor of Clinical Negligence published by Jordans for APIL which includes chapters he has written on Inquests and on ADR.
