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Jonathan Hough KC KC
Position
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.
Career
Called 1997. QC 2014.
Memberships
PNBA; LCLCBA; ALBA; COMBAR; BILA.
Education
Educated at Bradford Grammar School and St Hugh’s College Oxford (first in classics). Queen Mother scholar, Middle Temple. Graded outstanding on Bar course.
Lawyer Rankings
London Bar > Insurance and reinsurance
(Leading Silks)Ranked: Tier 2Jonathan Hough KC –4 New Square ‘Jonathan is quite exceptional. A fantastic brain, brilliant with clients, and the standard of his drafting is a model for others to aspire to.’
4 New Square Chambers‘ insurance practice benefits from its expertise in related areas including commercial litigation, international arbitration, professional negligence and property damage, which enables members to provide a full service across the leading cases in insurance. Looking at insurance issues arising out of Covid-19, Jonathan Hough KC, leading Ben Smiley and William Harman represented Zurich Insurance Co Ltd in World Challenge Expeditions Ltd v Zurich Insurance Co Ltd which covered a dispute for a claim by a company that arranges expeditions for schools that had to cancel trips as a result of the Covid-19 pandemic, with the team successfully seeking security for costs. The set has a firm grasp on issues of construction covering indemnity, non-disclosure, breach of conditions and fraud. David Turner KC regularly acts on insurance disputes and issues relating to business interruption insurance, while Clare Dixon KC has experience in professional indemnity and material damage.
London Bar > Professional negligence
(Leading Silks)Ranked: Tier 1Jonathan Hough KC –4 New Square ‘Jonathan is supremely intelligent. His drafting and advocacy skills are excellent.’
London Bar > Inquests and inquiries
(Leading Silks)Ranked: Tier 1Jonathan Hough KC – 4 New Square ‘You want Jon on your side. He is a breathtaking advocate: incisive and compelling.’
London Bar > Banking and finance (including consumer credit)
(Leading Silks)Ranked: Tier 3Jonathan Hough KC – 4 New Square Chambers ‘Very responsive, delivers very clear commercial and strategic advice. Helped the clients get to the issues to consider quickly and clearly.’
London Bar > Administrative law and human rights
(Leading Silks)Ranked: Tier 3Jonathan Hough KC –4 New Square Chambers ‘An extremely sensible and acute tactician, and is formidable when necessary.’