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39 Essex Chambers
81 CHANCERY LANE
LONDON
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Mr Jonathan Bellamy
Position
Jonathan has an established litigation, arbitration and advisory practice in commercial law. His practice includes domestic litigation, international work and arbitrations under the auspices of major institutions including ICC, LCIA, SIAC, DIFC and DIAC. His sector experience includes energy and natural resources, insurance and reinsurance, construction, PFI, sale of goods and services, product distribution and agency, joint ventures, information law, IT contracts, outsourcing, aviation, commodities, film & media and professional sport.
Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators (FCIArb); IBA; ICC (UK); COMBAR; PNBA; TECBAR; Chartered Institute of Arbitrators Panel of Commercial Arbitrators; AIAC Panel of Arbitrators; Sport Resolutions UK Panel of Arbitrators (legal member); TECBAR Panel of Arbitrators; Chartered Institute of Arbitrators – Panel of Mediators; Sport Resolutions UK Panel of Mediators; TECBAR Panel of Mediators; Football League Disciplinary Committee Panel of Chairmen.
Career
Called to the Bar 1986; Lincoln’s Inn; Recorder of the Civil and Crown Courts; Chartered Arbitrator (C.Arb); Mediator (CEDR accredited).
Languages
French.
Memberships
Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators (FCIArb); IBA; ICC (UK); COMBAR; PNBA; TECBAR; Bar Sports Law Group; Bar Pro Bono Group; Chartered Institute of Arbitrators Panel of Commercial Arbitrators; KLRCA Panel of Arbitrators; Sport Resolutions UK Panel of Arbitrators (legal member); TECBAR Panel of Arbitrators; The Electrical Association Panel of Arbitrators; Chartered Institute of Arbitrators – Panel of Mediators; Sport Resolutions UK Panel of Mediators; TECBAR Panel of Mediators; Football League Disciplinary Committee Panel of Chairmen.
Education
Jesus College Oxford (1985 MA Jurisprudence).
Leisure
Reading, film, theatre, most sports.
Lawyer Rankings
London Bar > Sport
(Leading Juniors)Ranked: Tier 2Jonathan Bellamy – 39 Essex Chambers ‘Jonathan is very commercial, on top of procedures in arbitration, and scrupulously fair.’
39 Essex Chambers covers the full range of matters from the world of sports with members showing particular experience in the areas of safeguarding, anti-doping and other disciplinary proceedings as well as personal injury cases in the sports context. For example, Nina Goolamali KC continues to represent World Rugby in the ongoing concussion litigation. Katherine Apps KC, who took silk in 2023, was recently particularly active in relation to safeguarding matters, while Jonathan Bellamy was appointed vice chair of the English Football League’s club financial review panel and has been active in a variety of football matters, including breach of contract, player-agent disputes, club-club transfer disputes and image and data rights issues.
London Bar > Insurance and reinsurance
(Leading Juniors)Ranked: Tier 3London Bar > International arbitration: counsel
(Leading Juniors)Ranked: Tier 3Jonathan Bellamy –39 Essex Chambers ‘A very experienced junior. He reads the tribunal well, and is very persuasive in submissions, has the benefit of an international practice, acting in disputes across the world, user-friendly and well liked and respected by instructing solicitors, clients and tribunals.’
Asia Pacific - The English Bar > Commercial
(Leading Juniors)Ranked: Tier 239 Essex Chambers has ‘strength in depth‘ in the commercial law space across the Asia-Pacific region, and has an established presence in Singapore and Kuala Lumpur. Adrian Hughes KC regularly acts for clients from China, Korea and Hong Kong in complex international arbitrations, and Charles Manzoni KC is ‘quick on his feet and extremely credible with the bench‘. Jonathan Bellamy‘s practice takes in SIAC, UNCITRAL, LCIA and ICC arbitrations, as well as handling disputes arising from a broad range of commercial agreements.
Asia Pacific - The English Bar > Construction, energy and infrastructure
(Leading Juniors)Ranked: Tier 1Jonathan Bellamy – 39 Essex Chambers ‘He really gets into the details of a dispute.’