Serle Court

Philip Jones KC has been named by Chambers & Partners 2023 as one of its 21 Stars at the Bar. He has frequently been named by Chambers & Partners as one of the Stars at the Bar during the last 18 years.

He was ranked in 9 different practice areas (there are 5 tier levels in each area): Chancery Commercial (Tier 1), Company (Tier 1), Partnership (Tier 1), Offshore (Tier 1), Commercial Dispute Resolution (Tier 2), Civil Fraud (Tier 2), Restructuring and Insolvency (Tier 2), Tax (Tier 2), Professional Negligence (Tier 3).

In Legal 500 Philip was ranked in 8 different practice areas: Company (Tier 1), Partnership (Tier 1), Offshore (Tier 1), Private Client: trusts and probate (Tier 1), Insolvency (Tier 2), Civil Fraud (Tier 2), Professional Negligence (Tier 3), Commercial Litigation (Tier 3)

He has a broad commercial and chancery practice but having been Junior Counsel to the Crown from 1994 to 2006 he also has considerable experience of advising on all aspects of public law, human rights and judicial review.

He frequently advises on the commercial, company, trusts and insolvency laws of Jersey, Guernsey, the Isle of Man, Bermuda, Cayman Islands, the British Virgin Islands and various Caribbean jurisdictions. He was called to the BVI Bar in 2002 and has frequently appeared in the BVI High Court and the Court of Appeal.

Year of Call: 1985; Lincoln’s Inn; junior counsel to the Crown 1994; KC 2006; CEDR mediator 2010; bencher, Lincoln’s Inn 2013.

COMBAR; Chancery Bar Association.

Oxford University (1982 BA; 1983 BCL; 1989 MA); Dalhousie University, Canada (1984 LLM).