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Philip Jones KC
Position
Barrister specialising in Chancery and commercial litigation, companies and insolvency, financial services, property and all aspects of judicial review, EC law and professional negligence relating to the foregoing.
Career
Qualified 1985; Lincoln’s Inn; junior counsel to the Crown 1994; QC 2006; CEDR mediator 2010; bencher, Lincoln’s Inn 2013.
Memberships
COMBAR; Chancery Bar Association.
Education
Oxford University (1982 BA; 1983 BCL; 1989 MA); Dalhousie University, Canada (1984 LLM).
Lawyer Rankings
London Bar > Partnership
(Leading Silks)Ranked: Tier 1London Bar > Private client: trusts and probate
(Leading Silks)Ranked: Tier 1London Bar > Tax: corporate
(Leading Silks)Ranked: Tier 3London Bar > Company
(Leading Silks)Ranked: Tier 2London Bar > Professional negligence
(Leading Silks)Ranked: Tier 4Serle Court undertakes professional negligence across the financial and legal sectors for both claimants and defendants. Daniel Lightman KC is instructed to defend a former director of BHS in a professional negligence and wrongful trading claim brought by the company’s liquidator for a value of £160 million. Additionally, Philip Jones KC is acting in a professional negligence claim against solicitors which alleges that negligent drafting of a subcontract for the provision of asylum seeker accommodation resulted in losses of over £100 million.
London Bar > Commercial litigation
(Leading Silks)Ranked: Tier 2London Bar > Fraud: civil
(Leading Silks)Ranked: Tier 2London Bar > Insolvency
(Leading Silks)Ranked: Tier 2The English Bar Offshore > The English Bar Offshore
(Leading Silks)Ranked: Tier 1Serle Court retains its status as among the market-leading offshore sets, with extensive expertise across international trusts, probate and commercial work, with members regularly involved in cases at the bleeding edge of the law in this area. Recent prominent cases include Re Cave Cay, which is thought to be worth more than $300 million, in which Philip Jones KC is acting in an injunction application in BVI in aid of arbitration proceedings. Elsewhere within set, Jonathan Adkin KC is involved in a billion-dollar shareholder dispute in the Bermuda Supreme Court in Re Jardine Strategic Holdings Ltd, which concerns an attempt to take private the Jardine Matheson conglomerate, which owns Hongkong Land and Mandarin Oriental. Dakis Hagen KC is known for his wide-ranging offshore practice and sees frequent involvement in high-end trusts and estate litigation in major offshore jurisdictions. Pre-eminent offshore silk Elizabeth Jones KC remains noted for her strong offshore presence and is often instructed on complex, high-profile and high-value international commercial disputes.