James has a broad commercial, public and civil litigation practice in the UK and the Caribbean. He has appeared in the High Court and County Court of England and Wales, the Supreme Court of Barbados and is due to appear in the Judicial Committee of the Privy Council.
Before undertaking pupillage in Chambers, James trained and practised at commercial litigation firms in Trinidad and Tobago and Barbados. He was also a judicial assistant to Lady Justice Asplin in the English Court of Appeal.
His recent and ongoing cases include:
James has significant experience advising blockchain companies. His work has covered claims to recover cryptoassets, advising on a US$20m public sale, a token generation event, the first private and decentralised launch of a decentralised finance protocol, governance of a DAO (decentralised autonomous organisation), the issuance of privacy tokens by software developers, the enforceability of SAFTs (simple agreements for future tokens), regulatory requirements under the UK’s AML/CTF regime, and more.
As a holder of the Legal Education Certificate and a Barbadian citizen, James is entitled to be admitted to the Bars of several Caribbean countries to practise law generally (i.e. not for a particular case only). This gives him a rare advantage in terms of appearing before certain Caribbean courts as junior counsel. For example, James is entitled to be admitted in:
