Michael is a partner at Fisher Scoggins Waters LLP, London. He has over 20 years’ experience in defending directors, senior individuals and companies facing investigation or prosecution for health and safety offences or manslaughter arising from work-related incidents. Michael is recognised as a leading health and safety lawyer in the legal directories Chambers and Partners and Legal 500. 

With Charlotte Waters and Louise Smail of Fisher Scoggins Waters LLP, he is the co-author of HSE and Environment Agency Prosecutions: The New Climate (2019) published by Bloomsbury Professional with foreword by the former Lord Chief Justice, The Right Honourable Lord Burnett of Maldon.