Wilberforce Chambers

John Martin KC is an exceptionally experienced and effective advocate in a very wide range of commercial chancery and business disputes. He is adept at leading a team of specialists in complex litigation, whether within or without his own specialties.

He has a particular expertise in contentious trust cases, in company and insolvency matters, in contract disputes of all types (often with a complex technical background) and in tort (particularly the economic torts).

He deals also with professional liability disputes in these and other commercial chancery areas. His practice is both domestic and international: Overseas, he has dealt with matters originating in Hong Kong, Singapore, the US, Australia, Canada, Russia, Switzerland, Italy, Bermuda, Gibraltar, Netherlands Antilles, Nevis, the Cayman Islands and the Channel Islands among others, and has appeared in the courts of many of these jurisdictions.

Called 1972; practised at the Chancery Bar in Liverpool until 1981; Wilberforce Chambers since 1981; took silk 1991. Deputy High Court judge in the Chancery Division since 1993; qualified mediator.

Chancery Bar Association; COMBAR; Professional Negligence Bar Association.

Pembroke College, Cambridge.