Eddie joined Matrix as a full member upon successful completion of his traineeship in October 2011. Eddie holds a first class undergraduate law degree from Trinity Hall, Cambridge University. He undertook the Bar Vocational Course at the Inns of Court School of Law where he was graded ‘Outstanding’ and received the Everard Ver Heyden Foundation Prize for finishing as one of the top five candidates in his year. Eddie later read for the Bachelor of Civil Law at Brasenose College, Oxford University. He received Distinctions in all subjects, achieved the top mark in two papers and won the Ralph Chiles CBE Prize for Comparative Human Rights Law. Eddie was awarded a Sunley Scholarship, Eastham Scholarship, Hardwicke Award and Buchanan Prize by Lincoln’s Inn.
In 2009 Eddie spent nine months working as a Judicial Assistant to Lady Justice Arden at the Court of Appeal. During this time he worked on a broad range of public law, Human Rights Act, European Union law, immigration law, chancery and commercial law appeals. Prior to this, Eddie spent three months working as a legal assistant to Lord Rothschild, helping to oversee an international trust restructuring operation.
Eddie has a strong interest in cases with an international law dimension, particularly those arising under the European Convention on Human Rights. In the summer of 2010 he spent two months working as a Stagiaire at the European Court of Human Rights in Strasbourg. He also has a keen interest in media and information law. During his traineeship, Eddie undertook secondments at the BBC, the Times and the Guardian. He is a regular contributor to the Inforrm blog and has published several articles and conference papers on aspects of defamation and privacy law.
Eddie is a member of the Executive Committee of the Human Rights Lawyers Association and is a Lecturer in Administrative Law and European Human Rights Law at Oxford University.
Eddie is currently on secondment to the Supreme Court as judicial assistant to Lord Clarke. He returns to Matrix full-time in July 2012.