Josh Pemberton

Josh practices in public, commercial and competition/EU law. He joined chambers in July 2022 following the successful completion of pupillage under the supervision of Sarah Abram KC, Edward Harrison and Malcolm Birdling.

Josh qualified as a barrister and solicitor in New Zealand in 2015. Before coming to the English bar, he worked as a judge’s clerk (judicial assistant) to Justice William Young at the Supreme Court of New Zealand. He then worked at the Open Society Foundations, the world’s largest human rights philanthropy, where he was a Presidential Fellow before working in organisational strategy and human rights litigation.

Josh graduated with an LLB (First Class Honours) and BA (Politics, Philosophy and Economics) from the University of Otago, New Zealand in 2014. He completed an LLM at Harvard Law School in 2017. Josh placed top of his year in law at Otago and was awarded multiple scholarships and top-of-class prizes at both Otago and Harvard.

Master of Laws (LLM), Harvard Law School, 2017 Bachelor of Laws (LLB) with First Class Honours, University of Otago, New Zealand, 2014 Bachelor of Arts (BA) (Politics, Philosophy and Economics), University of Otago, New Zealand, 2014