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Jack Dillon

Jack Dillon

Position

Jack Dillon is a well-regarded specialist commercial, property and professional negligence barrister. He is ranked as a leading junior and comes highly recommended by his instructing solicitors, who appreciate his pragmatic advice and persuasive advocacy. He is an experienced trial advocate, both as sole counsel and as a junior, with experience of multi-week trials in the High Court and Commercial Court.

Jack has experience across all aspects of commercial disputes, including substantial international arbitrations and frequently appears as sole counsel in multi-million pound claims and arbitrations. His property work focusses on real property and ownership and use of land disputes, and commercial landlord and tenant work. Jack’s professional negligence practice has a focus on legal and financial professionals, and the property and financial sectors.

Jack’s clients range from major multi-nationals to government departments and local authorities, banks and insurers, smaller companies and start-ups, and to high net worth and other individuals. Jack accepts direct access instructions and often advises in this way at the very outset of a case.

Jack has contributed to various textbooks, including Electronic Disclosure Law and Practice (1st edition, 2017), Construction All Risks Insurance (2nd edition, 2017), and Construction Professional Indemnity Insurance (1st edition, 2018), and frequently gives training seminars and talks.

Career

Call: 2012

Memberships

Commercial Bar Association Property Bar Association London Common Law & Commercial Bar Association Professional Negligence Bar Association

Education

City Law School, GDL & BPTC (Outstanding) – Senior Scarman Award, Stephen Seabrooke Memorial Prize, Lord Denning Scholarship. University of Bristol, BA Hons (History) (First) – highest dissertation.

Mentions

London Bar

Professional negligence

Leading junior5
Jack Dillon –Gatehouse Chambers ‘Jack is thorough, approachable, and excellent both on in writing and on his feet. He is calm, considered, and persuasive.’
London Bar

Property litigation

Leading junior5
Jack Dillon – Gatehouse Chambers ‘Jack is a very calm and confident advocate, who does not demur from assertively defending difficult positions in court when he has to but always with charm and a level of experience beyond his year of call.'