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About
Provided by Jonathan Hough KC
Practice Areas
Principal areas of practice: insurance / reinsurance; professional liability; commercial and consumer law; administrative law (including inquiries). Insurance work includes coverage disputes and litigation / arbitration between insurers, reinsurers, brokers and coverholders. Professional liability practice includes lawyers, financial professionals, insurance brokers and valuers. Public law practice covers central and local government, professional discipline and commercial / utilities regulation. Special expertise in inquiries / inquests, and experienced as lead counsel to the inquiry (recently, inquests concerning terror attacks at Westminster Bridge, London Bridge, Fishmonger’s Hall and Streatham Hill, and the Hillsborough Disaster). Recent cases include: Mulsanne Insurance v Marshmallow Financial Services [2022] EWHC 276 (Ch); R (Maughan) v Oxfordshire Coroner [2021] AC 454; Chief Constable West Yorks v Dyer [2021] 1 WLR 1233; Skatteforvaltningen v SCP [2020] 4 WLR 98; Euro Pools v RSA [2020] 2 All ER (Comm) 40; PM Law v Motorplus [2018] EWCA Civ 1730; Accident Exchange v McLean [2018] 4 WLR 26; Weir Services Australia v AXA [2018] Lloyd’s Rep IR 50; McBride v UKI [2017] Lloyd’s Rep IR 352; Denning v Greenhalgh Financial Services [2017] PNLR 19.
Career
Called to the Bar 1997. Took silk 2014.
Professional Memberships
PNBA; LCLCBA; ALBA; COMBAR; BILA; LCIA.
Publications
Editor of Jackson & Powell on Professional Liability (7th to 9th edns.) and of Jervis on Coroners (14th edn.)
Personal
Educated at Bradford Grammar School and Oxford University (First in Classics). Queen Mother scholar, Middle Temple. Graded Outstanding on Bar course.
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