St John's Chambers

Commercial, Insolvency, Wills & Trusts, Real Estate, Mediation

Call : 2021

Jack Pankhurst is a specialist commercial and chancery barrister and a trained mediator. His practice spans the breadth of commercial disputes, including company and insolvency; contractual disputes; offshore work; wills and trust litigation; professional negligence claims; property matters; and related specialisms.

Jack has experience in acting at every stage of a dispute, from the pre-action stage through to trial and enforcement, and during interim applications and injunctions. Jack is comfortable working as sole counsel and, where appropriate, as part of a team. As sole counsel, Jack has experience of dealing with cases of all types including high-value litigation with an international element.

Prior to coming to the Bar, Jack worked briefly in the buying department of a large UK business and later as a German-speaking Analyst at JPMorgan. Jack joined Chambers following the successful completion of his chancery and commercial pupillage in April 2022. Jack’s pupil supervisors were Nick Pointon, Charlie Newington-Bridges, Oliver Wooding, and James Pearce-Smith.

Chancery Bar Association

LLB (Hons) Law and German – First Class Honours – Cardiff University Austrian Law (Erasmus) – Leopold-Franzens-Universität Innsbruck LLM in Comparative and European Private Law – University of Edinburgh BPTC – VC – BPP University (Bristol) Lord Denning Scholar – Lincoln’s Inn (2019) Excellence Scholar – BPP (2019) Ewan Cameron Scholar – Edinburgh Law School (LLM Academic Scholarship) (2018) The Geldards Prize for Highest Overall Performing Student across the ‘Law and Language’ Cohort (2017) Mollie Williams Prize for Highest Result in Written German (2017) Martha Gillespie Prize for Outstanding Achievement in First Year Examinations (2014)