Education:

Merchant Taylors' School, Crosby
Universities of Liverpool, Manchester, City University London
Inns of Court School of Law.

Barrister, called to the Bar 1981.

Peter's entire practice has been as an in-house lawyer: He has wide experience in technology law and Intellectual Property matters. Since 1988 Peter has worked in, or on behalf of a number of well known software and hardware companies.

Peter has a breadth of experience both as a practical in-house lawyer and as a lecturer and researcher of Internet-related matters. Peter has first-hand experience of domain name disputes.

Other Appointments:

Founding vice-president of the Business Software Alliance 

Designated Expert on e-commerce, Directorate for Science, Technology & Industry of the OECD,

Contributor to programmes for the UN Development Law Agency.

Member of the Expert Panel of the Safer Internet Project of the European Commission's Directorate General for The Information Society & Media.