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Nigel Jones KC KC
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Nigel Jones KC is a highly experienced courtroom and advisory leader who specialises in complex and high value, international and domestic commercial litigation & arbitration, insurance, construction and professional negligence. He is acknowledged as a leading silk in these areas and is well-known for bringing a business-like and commercial approach to his work.
“Nigel is highly unusual in being as pragmatic a lawyer as he is a fabulous intellect. Nigel answers the questions we have not even thought of and is incredibly reassuring to work with. His accessibility and willingness to help is fantastic – he really is one of the best silks around.” – The Legal 500, 2023
Within his specialist areas he has significant experience of banking & finance and joint venture disputes, commercial fraud, private international & conflict, insurance coverage and insolvency, large infrastructure design and construction disputes and property damage. Alongside these he has considerable experience in niche areas such as franchising and commercial agency and sports law as well as the utilities sector (principally electricity).
He is also a specialist class/group action lawyer and understands the complex area of costs and the third party funding of costs in domestic and international dispute resolution.
These skills led to his appointment in 2014 as chair of the investment committee of the Harbour Funds (the UK’s largest litigation funder). Harbour is involved in investing over £400m in litigation and arbitration worldwide.
Nigel is an experienced mediation advocate and a regular lecturer who has presented lectures for the London Common Law and Commercial Bar Association, the Franco-British Lawyers Society, the British German Jurists Association, the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators UAE and the Annual Arbitration Summit.
In recognition of his market leading skills and expertise, Nigel received the prestigious Commercial Litigation Silk of the Year Award 2021 (Chambers Bar Awards).
Nigel provides his services as a director of NJ (Gatehouse) Legal Limited. Registered in England & Wales, company number 10742202. Registered office: Quadrant House Floor 6, 4 Thomas More Square, London E1W 1YW. Both Nigel and the company are regulated by the Bar Standards Board.
Career
Call: 1976 | Silk: 1999
Languages
French – fluent
Memberships
- Arbitrator and mediator member of ADR Chambers (UK) Ltd
- Registered Legal Practitioner, Dubai International Financial Centre
- British Insurance Law Association
- Commercial Bar Association
- Franco-British Lawyers Society
- Chartered Institute of Arbitrators
- London Commercial Law & Commercial Bar Association
- London Court of International Arbitration
- Professional Negligence Bar Association
- Technology & Construction Bar Association.
- Society of Construction Law
Lawyer Rankings
London Bar > Insurance and reinsurance
(Leading Silks)Ranked: Tier 3London Bar > Construction
(Leading Silks)Ranked: Tier 4London Bar > Professional negligence
(Leading Silks)Ranked: Tier 2Housing ‘a range of very good juniors’, Gatehouse Chambers handles a breadth of professional negligence claims, including matters relating to property transactions, construction, and financial services. Nigel Jones KC and Sarah McCann were instructed to act for the claimant in Enterprise Insurance Company Plc (in liquidation) v EY Limited, a high-value case alleging negligence on behalf of the auditors. Daniel Gatty and Jack Dillon are both experienced property litigators who also handle professional liability cases within the sector. Michael Wheater KC was appointed silk in March 2024. Wheater’s professional negligence practice is complemented by his expertise in construction; one of his recent cases was OCL Facades v Absolute Insurance Brokers in which he represented a specialist cladding contractor in a claim against its insurance broker.
London Bar > Company
(Leading Silks)Ranked: Tier 2Nigel Jones KC – Gatehouse Chambers ‘Nigel is fantastic, he is incredibly user-friendly and has a brain the size of a planet.’
London Bar > Commercial litigation
(Leading Silks)Ranked: Tier 2Gatehouse Chambers ‘offers a wide spectrum of expertise across commercial litigation’, encompassing issues such as international supply contract disagreements, warranty and indemnity claims, and joint venture disputes. In VH Invest and Airprofile v Moir and Oilsearch Limited and others, David Lewis KC is acting for the claimants, who allege breach of contract and misrepresentation relating to the development of patented technology used to measure airflow from wind turbines. In a complex multi-jurisdictional case, Nigel Jones KC and Sarah McCann are representing Riad Tawfiq Al Sadik in his claims of professional negligence against Clyde & Co, as well as two barristers and an offshore law firm, involving UAE, English, and Cayman laws.