Serle Court

Jon is developing a broad Commercial Chancery practice across Chambers’ core practice areas.  Jon has particular interest in Civil Fraud, Company, Insolvency and Banking & Finance related litigation.

Jon joined chambers in 2024 on successful completion of pupillage. During pupillage he assisted Dan McCourt Fritz KC, Matthew Morrison, Thomas Elias, Harry Martin and Sparsh Garg.  This included working on three substantial High Court trials (in the Commercial Court and Chancery Division), and an appeal to the Court of Appeal.  He has also appeared as sole counsel in the High Court.

Before joining Serle Court Jon was the Judicial Assistant to Lord Briggs of Westbourne in the Supreme Court of the United Kingdom and Judicial Committee of the Privy Council. During that time he worked on a number of high profile and important appeals, dealing with novel and complex issues of law. These covered a wide range of areas including contract, tort, equitable remedies, civil fraud, insolvency, company, property, private international law and public law. Notably this included Byers v Saudi National Bank [2023] UKSC 51, a landmark case on knowing receipt.

Jon was also previously a Judicial Assistant in the High Court. There he assisted a range of judges in the Queen’s Bench Division including Mr Justice Warby (as he was), Mrs Justice Cockerill, Mrs Justice Tipples, Mr Justice Freedman and Mrs Justice McGowan.

Prior to coming to the Bar, Jon was a Senior Associate in the Litigation & Investigations team at Allen & Overy LLP.  During his career as a solicitor Jon represented large corporates and financial institutions in a range of high-value complex commercial disputes and regulatory investigations. Jon’s practice primarily focussed on banking and finance disputes, in particular those with an insolvency or civil fraud aspect.  He also acted on very substantial international commercial arbitrations in both London and Singapore.  He is therefore very used to handling heavy and complex multi-jurisdictional litigation.

Jon has also spent time on secondment to the Litigation and Regulatory Proceedings team at Goldman Sachs. He is therefore well versed in complex financial products and issues arising in large financial institutions.

Year of Call: 2023; Solicitor 2016

Solicitor of the Senior Courts of England & Wales (2016)

LLB (First Class), University of Law, London

Post-Graduate Diploma in Professional Legal Practice (LPC) (Distinction), University of Law, London

Graduate Diploma in Law (Distinction), College of Law, London

MA (Oxon.), Experimental Psychology (First Class), Magdalen College, University of Oxford

Demyship (scholarship), Magdalen College, University of Oxford