Profile
Work Department
Company and Partnership; Commercial Litigation; Property Litigation
Position
Jonathan Gavaghan has a specialist chancery and commercial practice with particular experience in partnership / LLP disputes, commercial disputes and property law. Company law (including breach of fiduciary duty claims and shareholder disputes) is a further area in which he specialises.
He studied law at Oxford University where he obtained a first-class degree. Top of his year in Land Law, he subsequently obtained a BCL and returned to Worcester College, Oxford as a visiting tutor in constitutional law.
He is a Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators.
Career
Qualified 1992, Lincoln’s Inn.
General Chancery/commercial litigation (including property, company law, public law and partnership)
Memberships
Chancery Bar Association
Property Bar Association
Association of Partnership Practitioners
He is a former Chairman of the Young Bar and has served two terms as an elected member of the Bar Council.
Education
- MA (First Class): Worcester College, Oxford University.
- BCL: Worcester College, Oxford University.
- FCIArb
- Martin Wronker Prize Winner for best University Performance in Land Law, Oxford University (1990)
- Henriques Prize-winner, Worcester College, Oxford University (1990)
- Holder of Inns of Court Studentship
- Eastham Scholar, Lincoln’s Inn
- Hardwicke Scholar, Lincoln’s Inn
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