Jonathan Hough

Principal areas of practice are: insurance / reinsurance; professional liability; commercial and consumer law; administrative law (including inquiries). Insurance work ranges from substantial coverage disputes to litigation and arbitration between insurers, reinsurers, brokers and coverholders. Professional liability practice covers mainly solicitors, barristers, financial professionals, insurance brokers and surveyors / valuers. Public law practice includes judicial review and advisory work covering local government, professional discipline and commercial regulation. Special expertise in the law relating to public inquiries and inquests, and experienced as counsel to the inquiry (recently, inquests concerning terrorist attacks at Westminster Bridge, London Bridge, Fishmongers’ Hall and Streatham Hill, and the Hillsborough Disaster). Important recent cases include: R (Maughan) v Oxfordshire Coroner [2021] AC 454; Chief Constable of West Yorkshire v Dyer [2021] 1 WLR 1233; Skatteforvaltningen v SCP [2020] 4 WLR 98; Euro Pools plc v RSA [2020] 2 All ER (Comm) 40; PM Law v Motorplus [2018] EWCA Civ 1730; Accident Exchange v McLean [2018] 4 WLR 26; Weir Services Australia v AXA CS [2018] Lloyd’s Rep IR 50; McBride v UK Insurance [2017] Lloyd’s Rep IR 352; Denning v Greenhalgh Financial Services [2017] PNLR 19.

Educated at Bradford Grammar School and St Hugh’s College Oxford (first in classics). Queen Mother scholar, Middle Temple. Graded outstanding on Bar course.