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Spencer is a sought after leading junior barrister who is praised for his diligence, excellent client care, strong advocacy and ability to work well in teams. He has a multi-disciplinary practice spanning sports disputes, civil liability including personal injury and clinical negligence, industrial disease, private international and travel law, administrative and public law, group actions and commercial law.
Spencer is variously ranked in the directories as a ‘Leading Junior’, ‘Rising Star’ and ‘Up and Coming’ across 5 different practice areas where he is described as “approachable, clear, astute and a pleasure to work with”; as having “an excellent grasp of the legal issues”; “very clever” with “a great touch”; “already having a practice that exceeds his seniority”; and as having “considered and incisive” advocacy.
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Jameela Sheikh
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Jameela Sheikh
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Areas Of Expertise
“Spencer is careful, thorough and very well prepared. His advocacy is considered and incisive.” (Legal 500, 2026)
“Spencer has a growing reptation in sports insurance, sports injury and sports disputes.” (Legal 500, 2025)
“Spencer is very thorough and precise in his advice, and careful in his analysis. His advocacy is impressive.” (Legal 500, 2024)
Spencer is a leading sports law junior. He has a busy and broad practice acting for players/athletes, governing bodies, agents, coaches, insurers and other participants in sport. Spencer’s work is informed by his civil litigation, commercial litigation, regulatory and arbitration expertise. He has experience cross the full sports law spectrum including matters involving commercial disputes, regulatory and disciplinary disputes, funding, selection issues, governance, insurance issues, administrative law and human rights, as well as in serious injury (including concussion in sport) and clinical negligence. He regularly appears before tribunals and specialist arbitration panels in contentious matters at first instance and at appellate level.
Spencer’s commercial sports work covers the range of commercial law practice areas including commercial contracts, debt recovery, agency issues, sponsorship rights, governance, insurance, data protection and information law and professional liability. His regulatory and disciplinary work includes defending and prosecuting in disciplinary proceedings before domestic and international tribunals as well as the full range of doping cases, including in cases involving use, tampering, whereabouts anonymity issues. His expertise in serious injury and clinical negligence matters means he is particularly comfortable cross-examining medical and scientific experts and dealing with complex questions of medical causation.
In the context of civil litigation in sport, Spencer is well versed in both defending and pursuing claims for sports-related injuries including those resulting from claims for damages arising out of concussion in sport, defective equipment, unsafe premises and negligent training or return to play procedures. He regularly acts in insurance matters concerning policy coverage issues and disputes arising from career ending injuries. He has significant experience in both civil and disciplinary matters arising out of safeguarding and abuse.
Spencer also has experience of advising on non-contentious matters in sport and of drafting in a sports law context.
Alongside Spencer’s sport work, he has experience in media and entertainment disputes across the commercial and civil litigation spectrum.
He has previously been a Disciplinary Panel Member of the England Boxing Disciplinary Panel and is part of the Sports Resolutions Pro Bono Panel.
“Spencer is very good with clients, and he is very calm and approachable.” (Legal 500, 2026)
“He has excellent drafting skills and is easy to work with on complex matters” (Chambers and Partners, 2026)
“Spencer is incredibly approachable, easy to work with and has an excellent grasp of legal issues with an eye on progressing matters proportionately” (Chambers and Partners, 2026)
“Spencer has excellent legal knowledge, technical ability and a rapport with clients beyond his year of call” (Chambers and Partners, 2025)
“Absolutely superb. Thorough, professional and well-liked by clients” (Legal 500, 2024)
“Spencer is a very able all-round barrister” (Legal 500, 2023)
Spencer is a leading personal injury and clinical negligence junior with a high-profile and high-value case load well above his year of call. He maintains a practice which is split between claimant and defendant work.
Spencer acts in all aspects of personal injury litigation. His work includes serious brain and spinal injury, amputation, functional neurological disorders, complex psychiatric and fatal accident claims. He regularly appears as sole counsel in cases valued in excess of £1million and is a go-to junior for leading silks in higher value cases.
He is very experienced in dealing with claims which give rise to allegations of dishonesty and appeared as junior counsel for the Defendant in Covey v Harris [2021] EWHC 2211 QB.
Spencer’s multi-disciplinary practice means that he is comfortable acting in cases where there are novel facts. He has represented dozens of soldiers in claims against the Ministry of Defence arising out of non-freezing cold injury, PTSD and noise-induced hearing loss, is junior counsel in the ongoing rugby concussion litigation, and is familiar with claims arising out of domestic abuse, sexual abuse, those involving human rights issues, date breach claims and in claims involving autonomous vehicles.
International personal injury work also forms a significant part of Spencer’s practice, and he has experience of the PD6B gateways for service out of jurisdiction, Rome I, Rome II, the Brussels I Regulation (Recast), the Lugano Convention, and forum conveniens. He has experience dealing with accidents arising in an aviation and maritime context, including fatal accidents.
In the context of personal injury, Spencer regularly acts as junior counsel in large scale group litigation and enjoys working as a part of a team.
“Spencer is careful, thorough and well prepared. His advocacy is considered and incisive” (Legal 500, 2026)
“A very bright junior and a good advocate” (Legal 500, 2026)
“Spencer is very clever and has a great touch” (Chambers and Partners, 2026)
“He is a go to junior and incredibly easy to work with” (Chambers and Partners, 2025)
Spencer has a broad industrial disease practice with particular experience in acting for claimants in claims arising out of exposure to asbestos as both sole and junior counsel. He is highly experienced in dealing with living mesothelioma and secondary exposure cases, as well as claims concerning pleural thickening and asbestosis. His work in this area often involves consideration of complex medical, engineering and epidemiological evidence and he has appeared unled against silks.
In addition to asbestos claims, Spencer regularly accepts instructions in noise induced hearing loss, hand arm vibration syndrome, occupational asthma, occupational cancers and work-related upper limb disorder claims. Spencer also acts and has a strong interest in numerous industrial disease cases involving more unusual exposure and he has acted in claims arising from exposures to benzines, isocyanates, silica and diesel engine exhaust emissions. His industrial disease practice overlaps with his private international law expertise, and he has acted in numerous cases involving exposures abroad. He is also instructed on behalf of a large number of serving and ex-soldiers in group litigation claims for hearing loss and non-freezing cold injuries against the MOD.
“Very clever and has a great touch” (Chambers and Partners, 2026)
“Spencer is very good with clients, he is very calm and approachable” (Chambers and Partners, 2025)
“He puts clients at ease” (Chambers and Partners, 2024)
“He is great” (Chambers and Partners, 2024)
Spencer is a leading travel law junior and has experience across all aspects of travel law including claims arising out of package travel, overseas accidents, Montreal and Athens convention claims, clinical negligence claims arising out of treatment abroad and group illness claims. He is frequently instructed on cases which involves jurisdiction disputes including matters involving the PD6B gateways for service out of jurisdiction, Rome I, Rome II, the Brussels I Regulation (Recast) and the Lugano Convention.
He has acted in numerous carriage by air disputes, including those involving EU regulations, Warsaw and Montreal Conventions and associated passenger, cargo, baggage, delay and denied boarding claims and military aviation claims. He is comfortable and has experience in handling high value catastrophic injury claims as well as those involving fatalities either as a junior or part of a wider team.
Spencer is equally comfortable acting in inquests in aviation matters, as well as in regulatory or commercial matters for claimants and defendants.
Spencer’s international experience also includes having worked on secondment with a Malaysian law firm based in Kuala Lumpur where he gained experience in transactional and dispute-related commercial matters. In 2022, he undertook a prestigious Pegasus Scholarship which saw him spend two months working in the United States of America.
He is a contributor to the “Accidents Abroad” chapter of Butterworths Personal Injury Litigation Service and is an active member of the Pan-European Organisation of Personal Injury Lawyers.
Spencer has acted in a wide range of group and test cases as both sole counsel and as part of a wider team of counsel across a variety of practice areas and disputes. Many of these claims involve thousands of claimants and novel procedural challenges.
He has acted in major multi-party claims including:
- Representing military veterans in claims against the Ministry of Defence arising from service-related injuries.
- Representing claimants in claims arising out of trafficking, rape, sexual assault, and psychological abuse by Mohamed Al Fayed and others
- Acting for the Rugby Football League and the British Amateur Rugby League Association in the Rugby Concussion Litigation.
Spencer has substantial experience across information law. He is regularly instructed in data protection claims in the High Court and County Court and acts in claims relating to:
- Alleged failures to comply with subject access requests and requests under the Freedom of Information Act 2000.
- The processing and sharing of information by public bodies under the Data Protection Act 1998 and 2018, and the General Data Protection Regulation.
- Alleged breaches of Article 8 ECHR.
- Misuse of private information and breach of confidence.
