Jamie joined Quadrant Chambers in October 2024 following his successful completion of
pupillage.
He accepts instructions, led and unled, across all of Chambers’ core practice areas and beyond, including shipping, energy, commodities, insurance, aviation, banking and commercial dispute resolution.
Jamie has a strong academic background in law, which, along with his past experience as a solicitor at a magic circle firm and UK Supreme Court judicial assistant (clerk), gives him a deep legal knowledge and insight, which is reflected in the wide variety of legal work he has taken instructions on to date.
Before pupillage, Jamie read Jurisprudence with French Law at Balliol College, Oxford University, graduating with First Class Honours and various college prizes and scholarships. During his degree, Jamie also spent a year studying French and European Union Law at Université Paris II (Pantheon-Assas).
He also completed the BCL at Oxford University, obtaining a Distinction overall and the John Morris Prize for coming top of the year in Conflict of Laws / Private International Law.
Following his degree, Jamie trained at and worked as an associate solicitor in the Dispute Resolution and Global Investigations Group at Slaughter and May (2018-2020), experiencing contentious and non-contentious legal work in the firm's Finance, Competition, Corporate and Dispute Resolution departments.
Jamie was a Judicial Assistant (clerk) to Lord Burrows in the UK Supreme Court (2022-23), where he worked first-hand with justices determining appeals on significant legal cases in the UK Supreme Court and the Privy Council, including:
- Byers v Saudi National Bank [2022] UKSC 48 (a leading case on the action for knowing receipt in English law, brought against a third-party recipient of trust property).
- Barton and others v Morris and another in place of Gwyn-Jones [2020] UKSC 2 (a case concerning the implication and interpretation of terms of an oral contract and the law of restitution).
- Jalla and another v Shell International Trading and Shipping Company and another [2021] UKSC 50 (a case involving a time bar issue in the context of a major oil spill off the West African coastline).
- Trustees of the Barry Congregation of Jehovah’s Witnesses v BXB [2021] UKSC 89 (a leading case on vicarious liability).
- Zubaydah v Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office and others [2022] UKSC 83 (a leading case on choice of law rules in the context of torts committed in multiple countries).
More recently, Jamie spent two months on secondment at DWF LLP in their specialist marine insurance team, working on a variety of marine insurance, cargo and wet shipping matters.
Shipping
- MOK Petro Energy v. Argo (No. 604) Limited (The “F1”) [2024] EWHC 1935 (Comm) Jamie assisted Simon Rainey KC and Benjamin Coffer during pupillage in a case involving an important analysis of the requirement of physical “damage” in a particular average claim and one of the first reported decisions to analyse the operation of sections 10 and 11 of the Insurance Act 2015 where there has been a breach of warranty.
- War Risks Insurance Acting as a junior to Luke Parsons KC, Jamie has advised clients in respect of potentially significant marine war risks insurance claims (H&M / P&I war risks).
- Charterparties As sole counsel, Jamie is frequently instructed to advise and draft statements of claim/submissions in a variety of Time / Voyage Charter disputes, including cases involving off-hire, underperformance, crane damage, unsafe ports, termination/cancellation, bunker quality disputes, detention, deviation, demurrage/laytime, and mitigation.
- Bills of Lading / Cargo Claims Jamie has, acting for cargo interests and charterers, advised and drafted pleadings in numerous LMAA arbitrations concerning Bill of Lading / Cargo claims. Notably, Jamie recently advised clients on a complex issue involving the application of the time bar provisions in the Hague-Visby rules in the context of a chain of Charterparties.
- MYBA Charter Agreement Jamie has acted as sole counsel for both Charterers and Owners in the context of MYBA Yacht Charter disputes involving aspects of contract and consumer law. Most recently, he acted for a successful claimant in an LMAA ICP MYBA Yacht hire dispute, which involved a dispute over the alleged date of cancellation/termination of the charter and mitigation.
- Wet Shipping Jamie has experience advising clients in wet shipping disputes, including Collision at sea, General Average (whilst on secondment at DWF) and Salvage (whilst on secondment at DWF).
- Premier v Hughes Jamie is acting as sole counsel in an application before the Admiralty Registrar for default judgment and granting of a mandatory injunction, in the context of the trespass of a yacht in a marina.
- Anti suit injunctions as a pupil, assisted Ruth Hosking in preparation for an urgent ex parte anti-suit injunction brought in the Commercial Court.
- Berth Damage Assisting (as a pupil) in a two-week LMAA arbitration (worth up to USD 15 million) concerning an allision between a vessel and a berth. The trial concerned complex issues of fact and law and revolved around highly technical expert evidence.
Insurance
- War Risks Insurance Acting as a junior to Luke Parsons KC, Jamie has advised clients in respect of potentially significant marine war risks insurance claims (H&M / P&I war risks).
- Marine Cargo Insurance Jamie acted as sole counsel defending an underwriting agent in a claim brought by an indemnity for damage to a yacht in the context of an open cover cargo policy.
- Jamie spent two months in the summer of 2025 on secondment with DWF’s Marine Insurance team, gaining experience in various areas of marine insurance/shipping work, including Sale of Goods disputes, General Average, Salvage, Fisheries licencing disputes, and Lloyd’s market war risks insurance.
- As an associate solicitor, Jamie advised on business interruption insurance claims arising out of the Covid-19 pandemic. Much of the work required grappling with complex issues involving legal and factual causation, which culminated in the UKSC decision in Financial Conduct Authority v Arch Insurance (UK) Limited and Others [2021] UKSC 1; [2021] AC 649.
- Jamie has advised insurers on the incorporation of terms, freight insurance and marine cargo insurance.
Energy
- Spottiswoode v Nexans France SAS & Others (1440/7/7/22) Jamie is acting as junior counsel in a complex follow on damages claim worth up to £790m being pursued by Ms Spottiswoode CBE as Class Representative acting on behalf of electricity bill payers against addressees of the European Commission decision in Case AT- 39610 (Power Cables). Jamie was recently led by Ben Lask KC (Monkton Chambers) and Gerard Rothschild (Brick Court Chambers) in a combined preliminary hearing in the Spottiswoode proceedings before the Competition Appeal Tribunal with London Array & Others v Nexans SAS & Others (1518/5/7/22) (the ROC issue trial).
Commodities & International Trade
- Assisting Saira Paruk (as a pupil) in a week long LMAA Arbitration concerning a complex commodities dispute involving termination provisions in a supply agreement.
- Commodities / Sale of Goods Act 1979 Jamie acted as Junior counsel (led by Benjamin Coffer) in a complex commodities dispute involving the sale of bitumen.
- Carriage of Goods by Road Act 1965 Jamie has experience advising and drafting pleadings as sole counsel on behalf of a shipper in the context of a High Court claim brought under the Carriage of Goods by Road Act 1965 against several defendant carriers.
Aviation & Travel
- Jamie is acting for an air operator in the context of a complex high-value personal injury claim concerning an alleged collision (led by Tom Bird).
- Anudari v Turkish Airlines (K3QZ0T2F) Jamie successfully defended Turkish Airlines in a County Court compensation claim for aircraft delay caused by passenger illness under Regulation 261/2004.
Banking & Finance
- Jamie has successfully acted as sole counsel obtaining an injunction to enforce a hirer’s obligations under a hire-purchase agreement in the County Court.
- Jamie has successfully acted for a Landlord, to obtain an order for repossession of a property under s.7 of the Housing Act 1988.
- Jamie has taken instructions to appear before the County Court in the context of an application for the extension of time to register a charge.