Anthony Jones

Anthony Jones has a broad practice in commercial law, international arbitration, insurance, professional liability, public international law, and human rights.

Anthony has extensive experience before domestic and international tribunals, with current and recent instructions before the Supreme Court, Court of Appeal, the European Court of Human Rights, the EU Courts, and ICSID arbitral tribunals, as well as in a range of offshore jurisdictions (Antigua, Barbados, the Isle of Man, and St Vincent and the Grenadines).

Anthony has recently acted in a number of important cases, led and unled, including the FCA litigation regarding business interruption insurance reponses to the Covid-19 pandemic, Re Edwardian Group Ltd [2018] EWHC 1715 (Ch) (a successful £140 million unfair prejudice petition), Khanty-Mansiysk Recoveries Ltd v Forsters LLP [2018] EWCA Civ 89 and [2016] EWHC 522 (Comm) (successful defence to a £75 million claim arising out of investments in Russia), R (Campaign Against Arms Trade) v Secretary of State for International Trade [2019] EWCA Civ 1020 and [2017] EWHC 1754 (Admin) (challenge to UK arms exports to Saudi Arabia), Wikimedia v Turkey (European Convention challenge to Turkey’s ban on Wikipedia), Hanan v Germany (case on extraterritorial application of the European Convention to drone strikes in Afghanistan), and C-458/19 P ClientEarth v European Commission (challenge to compliance of EU chemicals regulation regime with public international law).​

University of Sydney (2004 BA First Class (Hons) Chinese; 2005 MA (Distinction) Classical Chinese); Yuyuan Wenhua Daxue (University of Languages and Cultures), Beijing (2005 Diploma in Chinese); University College, Oxford (2008 BA First Class (Hons) Law; Alan Urbach Prize for Jurisprudence; Peter Rowley Prize for Land Law).