Fountain Court Chambers

Commercial litigation including civil fraud, banking, international arbitration, insurance and reinsurance and professional negligence.

Extensive experience in multi-jurisdictional fraud and banking disputes including in recent years acting for Wirecard AG and for the successful claimants in the long-running Group Seven litigation in the Chancery Division and the Court of Appeal.  He also appeared in a banking corruption trial at the Old Bailey, for the bank in the Playboy litigation in the Court of Appeal and Supreme Court and in the Patents Court for Sandoz in the largest claim on a cross-undertaking for damages caused by an injunction and for Eli Lilly on the law of res judicata.

An expert in Norwich Pharmacal orders (having appeared in Ramilos) and injunctive relief, Jeff continues to advise in various heavy commercial disputes including against Nissan and in connection with a worldwide Ukrainian dispute.

Law Commission 1986-89. Called 1989. British Virgin Islands Bar (1999). QC 2010.

German and French.

BSB Professional Conduct Committee (Barrister Vice-Chair); COMBAR; Chancery Bar Association; CEDR Accredited Mediator.

BA First Class University of Sussex (1985); LLM First Class, Trinity Hall, Cambridge (1986).

Chess, cycling, squash, cinema.