St John’s Chambers

Commercial, Insolvency, Wills & Trusts, Real Estate, Mediation

Call : 2021
Jack is a specialist commercial and chancery barrister and a trained mediator.
His practice spans the breadth of commercial disputes, including company and insolvency; contractual disputes; offshore work; wills and trust litigation; professional negligence claims; property matters; and related specialisms.

Jack has experience in acting at every stage of a dispute, from the pre-action stage through to trial and enforcement, and during interim applications and injunctions. Jack is comfortable working as sole counsel and, where appropriate, as part of a team. As sole counsel, Jack has experience of dealing with cases of all types including high-value litigation with an international element.

Prior to coming to the Bar, Jack worked briefly in the buying department of a large UK business and later as a German-speaking Analyst at JPMorgan. Jack joined Chambers following the successful completion of his chancery and commercial pupillage in April 2022. Jack’s pupil supervisors were Nick Pointon, Charlie Newington-Bridges, Oliver Wooding, and James Pearce-Smith.

For more information about Jack’s commercial and chancery experience, please click on the headings in the Areas of Expertise Sections.

• Chancery Bar Association

• LLB (Hons) Law and German – First Class Honours – Cardiff University
• Austrian Law (Erasmus) – Leopold-Franzens-Universität Innsbruck
• LLM in Comparative and European Private Law – University of Edinburgh
• BPTC – VC – BPP University (Bristol)
• Lord Denning Scholar – Lincoln’s Inn (2019)
• Excellence Scholar – BPP (2019)
• Ewan Cameron Scholar – Edinburgh Law School (LLM Academic Scholarship) (2018)
• The Geldards Prize for Highest Overall Performing Student across the ‘Law and Language’ Cohort (2017)
• Mollie Williams Prize for Highest Result in Written German (2017)
• Martha Gillespie Prize for Outstanding Achievement in First Year Examinations (2014)