Twenty Essex

Arbitration; Civil fraud and asset tracing; Commodities and international trade; Energy and infrastructure; Insolvency and restructuring; Intellectual property; Jurisdiction, conflicts and enforcement; Shipping

James has a busy practice across all of Chambers’ main practice areas, with a particular interest in shipping (including shipbuilding), international trade, and commodities disputes. He is currently instructed as junior counsel in several high-value shipping disputes.

After pupillage, James spent three months at Peters & Peters Solicitors LLP working on a range of civil fraud disputes.

Before joining Chambers, James read politics, philosophy and economics at Exeter College, Oxford, receiving the Gibbs (Proxime Accessit) Prize in politics. He received a distinction in the GDL, winning the Monckton Chambers Prize for EU Law, and in the Bar Course at City University, London.