Practice Overview
James joined New Square Chambers in October 2019 following successful completion of his pupillage under the supervision of Alexander Hill-Smith, Aidan Briggs, Mark Hubbard and Nigel Hood.
James appears frequently in his own right in the High Court and County Courts covering the full range of Chambers’ practice areas. James’ notable instructions have included: advising on a wrongful trading claim with a potential value of £2 million, a successful application to wind-up a deadlocked partnership with co-bankrupt partners, and advising on a complex family dispute involving issues of company decision making, directors’ powers and discretionary trusts.
James has gained both led and unled trial experience, having been led by Nigel Hood in a four-week High Court trial concerning issues of civil fraud and partnership dissolution (Sidhu v Rathor [2020] EWHC 1916 (Ch)) and defending a possession trial in his own right.
James welcomes instructions across Chambers’ practice areas in the full range of commercial-chancery work including insolvency, trusts and estates, property, commercial litigation, civil fraud and company. James can offer up to date advice on responding to the Corona Virus crisis, particularly in relation to property, insolvency, and bankruptcy issues.
James is also a contributor to the forthcoming Third Edition of Gough on Company Charges.
Before coming to the Bar, James spent ten months at the boutique litigation firm Lenczner Slaght in Toronto, specialising in commercial and financial litigation. Previously, James tutored trusts law at the London School of Economics and obtained first class honours in his LLB from University College London.
James can be instructed on a direct access basis.