Adam practices across all of Chambers core areas of work, with a focus on commercial disputes, international arbitration, company and insolvency, travel & aviation, and public & constitutional law.
Adam has appeared as junior counsel in the Court of Appeal, Supreme Court, and in 13 appeals before the Privy Council representing governments, businesses and individuals as clients across the Commonwealth (including from Jamaica, Trinidad and Tobago, The Bahamas, and Antigua and Barbuda). He is recognised in the Legal 500 as a Rising Star (Tier 1) in two categories: ‘Administrative Law and Human Rights’, and ‘The English Bar (Offshore)’, which describes him as “thoughtful, comprehensive and analytical” in his approach.
Adam is also an experienced trial lawyer in his own right, frequently handling a broad range of trials and hearings, appeals, interim applications, preliminary hearings, and costs and case management conferences as sole counsel in the High Court and County Court.
Adam is a member of the Attorney General’s C-Panel of Junior Counsel to the Crown.
His recent experience includes:
- Lifestyle Equities C.V. and anor v Ahmed and anor [2024] UKSC 17: acting as junior counsel before the Supreme Court. The decision restates the law on directors’ duties, accessory liability and orders for an account of profits. Adam was led by Peter Knox K.C.
- R (on the application of Keighley) v Office of Communications [2025] EWHC 416 (admin): acting as first junior counsel. The claimant made various complaints to OfCom asserting that the BBC was systemically biased in its coverage of Brexit. OfCom asserted it did not have jurisdiction to consider complaints of this nature, and that its remit was limited to complaints alleging bias in individual programmes or editorially linked series. The claimant challenged this decision by judicial review. Adam was led by Thomas Roe K.C.
- Momenta v Cheval Legal [2024] EWHC 3333 (Ch): acting as first junior counsel. The defendant counterclaimed for breach of various contractual duties owed by Momenta in conducting claims for Cheval on an outsourced basis. The defendant secured an award of over £4,000,000. Adam was led by Rowan Pennington-Benton.
- Ravi Balgobin Maharaj v The Cabinet of the Republic of Trinidad and Tobago No 2 [2024] UKPC 41: acting as first junior counsel. The Commissioner of Police’s tenure was extended beyond the mandatory retirement age by order of the President, acting on the advice of Cabinet. The appeal concerned whether this was a decision that was required to be exercised by the President in her own discretion, and clarifies the arena within which the President must exercise her constitutional authority independently of the Cabinet. Adam was led by Anand Ramlogan S.C.
- Caryn Moss v The King [2023] UKPC 28: The appellant was tried and convicted on the charge of conspiracy to murder. The issues before the Board included whether the defence of duress arose on the evidence (assuming it was available at law in The Bahamas) and whether the Court of Appeal had erred when substituting a lengthier sentence. Adam was led by Rowan Pennington-Benton.
- John Mussington and anor v Development Control Authority and ors [2024] UKPC 3: appeared as junior counsel in an appeal from Antigua and Barbuda, concerning the planned development of an airport servicing various new hotel developments on the island of Barbuda. The decision restates the test for “standing” in environmental judicial review claims. Adam was led by Marc Williers K.C. and Leslie Thomas K.C.
- Suraj and others v Attorney General of Trinidad and Tobago [2023] A.C. 337: appeared as junior counsel in this appeal concerning the constitutionality of the Coronavirus Regulations 2020, confirming the correct approach to interpretation of the fundamental rights and freedoms guaranteed in the Trinidad and Tobago Constitution. Adam was led by Peter Knox K.C. and Anand Ramlogan S.C.
- Acting as first junior counsel in a commercial / construction appeal from Trinidad and Tobago before the Judicial Committee of the Privy Council, valued at ca. TT$11,000,000. Adam is led by Tom Poole K.C.
- Advising on the impact of sanctions and domestic and foreign law illegality in an ongoing international arbitration alleging breach of a financial services agreement, assisting Daniel Feetham K.C.
- Instructed as sole counsel to recover a tour operator’s outlay in the sum of over £1,175,000 against a hotel, in respect of a compromised claim in which a visitor to the hotel had suffered serious injury.
Adam is an associate member of the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators (ACIarb). He is also a member of the International Bar Association’s Young Lawyers Committee, and also sits on the Commonwealth Lawyers Association’s Human Rights and Rule of Law committee and Public Law committee. He contributes to various legal journals and has written for the Kluwer Arbitration Blog, the Jamaica Bar Association’s journal, the New Law Journal, as well as the Commonwealth Lawyers Association journal. He has also contributed a number of precedents to Atkin’s Court Forms and Butterworths Civil Courts Precedents.
Adam is strongly committed to pro bono work, having worked on asylum claims with an international NGO in Greece before commencing practice.
