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Year of Call: 1975
QC: 1997
Education: BA Hons
Email: ebj@13oldsquare.com
Born in Shropshire and educated at Cardiff High School and Balliol College, Oxford (where he read Modern History), Edward Bartley Jones was called to the Bar in 1975. He took Silk in 1997 and became a Bencher of Lincoln’s Inn in 2007.
Areas of practice
His practice encompasses all areas of Commercial and Chancery law (including Insolvency). He also has extensive experience of Human Rights, Judicial Review, Professional Negligence, Social Housing and Insurance claims. He has been consistently recommended by Chambers and Partners’ Directory as a Leader in his field.
Appointments
He has been a Deputy High Court Judge since 2002. Before that he was an Assistant Recorder and then a Recorder.
He is a former Chairman of the Northern Chancery Bar Association and a member of the Complaints Committee of the Bar Standards Board. From 1977 to 1981 he was a (part time) lecturer in Law at Liverpool University.
Reported cases and recent work
- Knowsley Housing Trust v. White [2009] 2 WLR 78 – House of Lords (tolerated trespassers and assured tenancies)
- Horton v. Sadler [2007] 1 A.C. 307 - House of Lords (limitation - successful appeal to persuade the House of Lords to reverse two of their previous decisions)
- Cream Holdings v. Banerjee [2005] 1 A.C.253 – House of Lords (Articles 8 and 10 and section 12 of the Human Rights Act 1998)
- C plc v. P (Attorney General Intervening) [2008] Ch. 1 – Court of Appeal (privilege against self-incrimination in context of search and seize orders)
- R (Gilboy) v. Liverpool City Council [2008] 4 All ER 127 – Court of Appeal (compatibility of demoted tenancy regime with Article 6)
- Liverpool City Council v. Doran [2009] BLGR 395 (Article 8 – first consideration by the Court of Appeal of the decision of the House of Lords in Doherty)
- Employers’ Liability Policy Trigger Litigation [2009] 2 All ER 26 (major test case as to how EL policies respond to mesothelioma claims)
- Bolton MBC v. MMI [2006] 1WLR 1492 – Court of Appeal (response of public liability policies to mesothelioma)
- Knowsley Housing Trust v. McMullen [2006] HLR 843 – Court of Appeal (Disability Discrimination Act 1995)
- Lambeth LBC v. O’Kane [2006] HLR 21 – Court of Appeal (tolerated trespassers)
- R (Crown Prosecution Service) v. Registrar of Births, Deaths and Marriages [2003] QB 1222 – Court of Appeal (Article 12)
- English v. Emery Reimbold & Strik [2002] 1 WLR 3381 – Court of Appeal (Article 6)
- CC v. AB [2007] 2 FLR 301 (Articles 8 and 10)
- Williams v. Fanshaw Porter & Hazlehurst [2004] 1 WLR 3185 – Court of Appeal (limitation)
- Floyd v. Fairhurst [2004] PNLR 41 – Court of Appeal (principles to be applied in appeals on inferences from primary facts)
- Lunn Poly v. Liverpool & Lancashire [2007] L & TR 6 – Court of Appeal (assessment of damages in lieu of grant of injunction)
- Codent v. Lyson [2007] 2 Costs LR 185 – Court of Appeal (costs – principles underlying Part 36 offers)
- Revenue v. Hyde Industrial Holdings [2006] 3 BTC 8025 – Court of Appeal (procedural failures by Revenue in collection of Class 1 NIC)
- Revenue v. Benchdollar [2009] EWHC 1310 (estoppel by convention)
- Phoenix Office Supplies v. Larvin [2003] 1 BCLC 76 – Court of Appeal (unfair prejudice petitions)
- Union Music v. Russell Watson [2003] 1 BCLC 453 – Court of Appeal (principles to be applied in convening meetings to break deadlock in companies)
- Grave v. GA Bonus Plc [1999] 2 Lloyd’s Rep 716 (effect of arson on an insurance claim)
Memberships
Chancery Bar Association
Northern Circuit
Northern Circuit Chancery Bar Association
Northern Circuit Commercial Bar Association
Also in Manchester and Liverpool
Exchange Chambers, Pearl Assurance House, Derby Square, Liverpool L2 9XX. – Dx: 14207 Liverpool
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