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Paul is a barrister specialising in employment, sports and commercial law at Blackstone Chambers in London. He has appeared in many of the leading UK cases involving restrictive covenants, trade secrets, discrimination, whistleblowing and bonus disputes, many with a cross-border dimension. He has given expert evidence on English law in foreign proceedings.

He has acted as counsel, and has also been appointed as an arbitrator, in a number of employment arbitrations. These are often governed by the rules of an international arbitral body (such as the London Court of International Arbitration), and have involved a conflict of laws (for example, where an employment contract is governed by English law and a bonus scheme governed by US law). He has written and spoken (with Peter Frost of Herbert Smith Freehills) on the increasing use of arbitration in the UK to resolve employment disputes.

Paul is also a member of the English Football Association’s Judicial Panel, and in that capacity chairs disciplinary proceedings involving football clubs, players and managers.

He is the Editor of Employee Competition: Covenants, Confidentiality and Garden Leave (OUP, 2011), and the author of The Challenge of Cross-Border Litigation from an EU Perspective in the ABA’s International Survey of Restrictive Covenants and Trade Secrets in Employment Law. He is a former Chair of the UK Employment Lawyers Association, and a former member of the Management Board of the European Employment Lawyers Association.

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