Hailsham Chambers

Jamie specialises in costs and professional and clinical negligence. Leading firms of solicitors in all three areas regularly instruct him, and his costs practice has an international dimension, having advised firms in Dubai, Singapore and the Channel Islands. Jamie is equally at home dealing with narrow points of construction or marshalling complex facts in document-heavy claims. He is a very experienced advocate, having spent much of his earlier years in practice in the criminal courts.

Jamie is in demand as an appellate advocate. In the last three years, he has appeared twice in the Supreme Court and nine times in the Court of Appeal. With his scientific background, Jamie is comfortable dealing with technical and medical issues and complex calculations, and he is a confident and effective cross-examiner of expert witnesses. Jamie is recommended in the professional directories for all of his practice areas. He has been described as “technically brilliant”, “fantastic for complex cases”, “an extremely good advocate, who tackles complex issues fearlessly and effectively” and “incredibly user-friendly … and appreciates clients’ needs”.

Called 2000; Inner Temple.

Fluent German, basic French.

Professional Negligence Bar Association; Association of Regulatory and Disciplinary Lawyers; AvMA.

The Perse School, Cambridge; Trinity College, Cambridge (1996 Diploma in German, distinction; 1998 BA linguistics first class); The College of Law (1999 CPE, distinction); Inns of Court School of Law (2000 BVC, very competent).

Cycling, rock climbing, music, cinema, Tottenham Hotspur FC.