BA History, University College London (1st Class Hons)
Margaret Elizabeth Dale Cast Prize
CPE, City University
Bar Vocational Course, Inns of Court School of Law
Inner Temple Major Scholarship
Inner Temple Lawson Moot Winner 2004

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Conrad has an extensive Court of Protection (and inherent jurisdiction) practice and has represented the Official Solicitor, NHS Trusts and Local Authorities in both medical treatment and welfare cases.  His experience includes cases involving urgent applications for life saving medical treatment, non-urgent medical treatment, “end of life” withdrawal of medical treatment, treatment of suicidal patients (including emergency treatment following overdose), advanced directives, deprivation of liberty, capacity to engage in sexual relations, urgent removal to a place of safety and the appointment of welfare and health deputies.  Conrad also has experience of cases involving allegations of serious sexual assault against adults lacking capacity by family members. 

Conrad also specialises in coronial law and has represented families, NHS Trusts, the police and other statutory bodies in coroners’ courts, including Article 2 and jury inquests.  He has represented police, clinicians, Trusts and charities in inquests on numerous occasions and has particular expertise in inquests involving complex medical conditions and expert evidence.  

Conrad also has experience of judicial reviews in a variety of contexts, including healthcare, disciplinary, coronial law, and others.

An NHS Trust v B [2012] Conrad represented an NHS Trust in an urgent application to the Court of Protection concerning an elderly female who remained potentially treatable following a significant overdose in a suicide attempt.  She had expressed to clinicians an ongoing desire to die and her family wanted her wishes to be respected, although they did not constitute a valid advanced directive.

An NHS Trust v H [2011] Conrad represented an NHS Trust in an urgent application under the High Court’s inherent jurisdiction to deprive a female child of her liberty to transport her to hospital for urgent medical treatment against her will for a suspected life threatening ectopic pregnancy, which she believed to be a viable child.

L v L [2011] Conrad represented the Official Solicitor in an application by a sibling for his effectively blind elderly brother, who was incapacitous and insisted he could see, to undergo cataract surgery and regain useful vision.

A Local Authority v CC [2010] Conrad represented a local authority in an application to the Court of Protection for an interim order removing a young female adult with learning disabilities to a place of safety, with an injunction preventing her Hepatitis C-carrying partner from contacting her.

Inquest into the death of Brashaw [2010] Conrad represented a GP in an inquest which precipitated important changes to the BNF Guidelines for paracetamol overdoses.