{"id":57713,"date":"2025-01-30T12:30:41","date_gmt":"2025-01-30T12:30:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/peraltafinancing.com\/business\/legal\/the-silk-class-of-2025-ten-names-to-note\/"},"modified":"2025-01-30T12:30:41","modified_gmt":"2025-01-30T12:30:41","slug":"the-silk-class-of-2025-ten-names-to-note","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fivemor.com\/?p=57713","title":{"rendered":"The silk class of 2025: ten names to note"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p><span data-contrast=\"auto\">The King\u2019s Counsel system remains the most prized designation for elite advocates in the world. One hundred and five lawyers \u2013 104 barristers and one solicitor \u2013 were selected from the 2024 process, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.legalbusiness.co.uk\/analysis\/ao-shearman-only-firm-to-pick-up-new-kc-as-silk-appointments-rise\/\">the results of which were announced last week<\/a><\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-contrast=\"auto\">The overwhelming majority of the new silks are already ranked very highly within their practice areas in <\/span><i><span data-contrast=\"auto\">Legal 500, <\/span><\/i>and i<span data-contrast=\"auto\">t would be a fool\u2019s errand to try to pick a \u2018best of\u2019 for that reason, but here are ten of the designees who illustrate the broad range of talent in their professions today, as well as the broad scope it covers.<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b><span data-contrast=\"auto\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" id=\"force-float-right\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-82377\" src=\"https:\/\/www.legalbusiness.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/wagner_adam-300x226.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"226\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.legalbusiness.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/wagner_adam-300x226.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.legalbusiness.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/wagner_adam.jpg 664w, https:\/\/www.legalbusiness.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/wagner_adam-496x373.jpg 496w, https:\/\/www.legalbusiness.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/wagner_adam-326x245.jpg 326w, https:\/\/www.legalbusiness.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/wagner_adam-176x133.jpg 176w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\"\/>Adam Wagner, Doughty Street Chambers<\/span><\/b><span data-ccp-props=\"{}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-contrast=\"auto\">Doughty Street Chambers is the set with the largest number of members parading to Westminster Hall, with five in the 2025 cohort, a distinction shared with Essex Court Chambers. Notable for being one of the most prominent barristers on X (formerlyTwitter) since the 2010s \u2013 a time in which, at a previous chambers, he was a founder of UK Human Rights Blog \u2013 Wagner was one of the most visible commentators on the mechanics of the lockdown policies created in response to the COVID-19 pandemic. Following the pandemic, of late he is notable for representing pro bono the families of British-linked hostages who were kidnapped as part of the October 7<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">th<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">\u00a0terrorist attack on Israel, including that of UK-Israel dual national Emily Damari, who was released by Hamas earlier this month.<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b><span data-contrast=\"auto\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" id=\"force-float-right\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-90059\" src=\"https:\/\/www.legalbusiness.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/Laura-Poots7272-300x254.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"254\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.legalbusiness.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/Laura-Poots7272-300x254.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.legalbusiness.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/Laura-Poots7272-768x650.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.legalbusiness.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/Laura-Poots7272-664x562.jpg 664w, https:\/\/www.legalbusiness.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/Laura-Poots7272-496x420.jpg 496w, https:\/\/www.legalbusiness.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/Laura-Poots7272-326x276.jpg 326w, https:\/\/www.legalbusiness.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/Laura-Poots7272-176x149.jpg 176w, https:\/\/www.legalbusiness.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/Laura-Poots7272.jpg 800w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\"\/>Laura Poots, Pump Court Tax Chambers<\/span><\/b><span data-ccp-props=\"{}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-contrast=\"auto\">A natural candidate for silk as winner of tax junior of the year at the 2024 Legal 500 Bar awards, Poots is ranked tier 1 for the tax: corporate section as well as also being ranked for tax: personal and tax: VAT and excise. Recent cases of note include representing HM Revenue and Customs in the Court of Appeal in a dispute with hedge fund BlueCrest Capital Management. A more unusual instruction in her career was her \u2013 unled \u2013 2022 role representing the Falkland Islands\u2019 Commissioner of Taxation in that jurisdiction\u2019s Court of Appeal in a case regarding its tax \u201cring-fencing\u201d of petroleum extraction activities. Poots is not the only female tax barrister being recognised in this round, with Marika Lemos of Devereux Chambers also appointed.<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b><span data-contrast=\"auto\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" id=\"force-float-right\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-90065\" src=\"https:\/\/www.legalbusiness.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/James-Berry72-300x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.legalbusiness.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/James-Berry72-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.legalbusiness.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/James-Berry72-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.legalbusiness.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/James-Berry72-768x768.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.legalbusiness.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/James-Berry72-664x664.jpg 664w, https:\/\/www.legalbusiness.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/James-Berry72-496x496.jpg 496w, https:\/\/www.legalbusiness.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/James-Berry72-326x326.jpg 326w, https:\/\/www.legalbusiness.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/James-Berry72-176x176.jpg 176w, https:\/\/www.legalbusiness.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/James-Berry72-100x100.jpg 100w, https:\/\/www.legalbusiness.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/James-Berry72-32x32.jpg 32w, https:\/\/www.legalbusiness.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/James-Berry72-50x50.jpg 50w, https:\/\/www.legalbusiness.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/James-Berry72-64x64.jpg 64w, https:\/\/www.legalbusiness.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/James-Berry72-96x96.jpg 96w, https:\/\/www.legalbusiness.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/James-Berry72-128x128.jpg 128w, https:\/\/www.legalbusiness.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/James-Berry72.jpg 800w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\"\/>James Berry, Serjeants\u2019 Inn Chambers<\/span><\/b><span data-ccp-props=\"{}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-contrast=\"auto\">In a career punctuated by a two-year stint as Member of Parliament for Kingston and Surbiton \u2013 defeating, and then losing his seat to, current Liberal Democrat leader Sir Ed Davey \u2013 James Berry\u2019s return to the Bar has borne fruit, having earnt silk the hard way through the conventional appointment process rather than as a political \u201cnylon\u201d (the colloquial term for\u00a0<span class=\"NormalTextRun SCXW242913920 BCX0\">a junior given the designation as a result of a political appointment).<\/span>\u00a0He is ranked as a top-tier junior in <\/span><i><span data-contrast=\"auto\">Legal 500<\/span><\/i><span data-contrast=\"auto\">\u2019s police law (forces and constables) section on the strength of his practice representing both forces and officers \u2013 earning him the award for public services and charities junior of the year at the <\/span><i><span data-contrast=\"auto\">Legal 500<\/span><\/i><span data-contrast=\"auto\"> UK Bar Awards 2024. His recent work includes representing the Metropolitan Police in disciplinary proceedings against the former head of the Metropolitan Black Police Association, who was found to have shared racist messages in a WhatsApp group.<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b><span data-contrast=\"auto\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" id=\"force-float-right\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-90051\" src=\"https:\/\/www.legalbusiness.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/Julia-Smyth-new7272-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.legalbusiness.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/Julia-Smyth-new7272-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.legalbusiness.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/Julia-Smyth-new7272-664x442.jpg 664w, https:\/\/www.legalbusiness.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/Julia-Smyth-new7272-496x330.jpg 496w, https:\/\/www.legalbusiness.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/Julia-Smyth-new7272-326x217.jpg 326w, https:\/\/www.legalbusiness.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/Julia-Smyth-new7272-176x117.jpg 176w, https:\/\/www.legalbusiness.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/Julia-Smyth-new7272.jpg 700w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\"\/>Julia Smyth, Landmark Chambers<\/span><\/b><span data-ccp-props=\"{}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-contrast=\"auto\">Smyth, the 2024 Legal 500 Bar awards immigration junior of the year, is notable for her public law practice, focusing on immigration, nationality and the welfare state. Formerly in-house government lawyer, she represents Child Poverty Action Group, a core participant in the economics module of the Covid-19 inquiry. However, much of her notable work of late has been in the immigration and nationality space, regularly representing the government in the Court of Appeal. In one recent case, she represented the government, defeating an appeal by an Albanian man who fraudulently applied for British citizenship under a false name and date of birth, also claiming to be Kosovar, against the decision to strip him of his British citizenship. The set \u2013 which dominates planning law as well as being notable \u2013 has four appointees this year \u2013 its record.<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b><span data-contrast=\"auto\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" id=\"force-float-right\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-90071\" src=\"https:\/\/www.legalbusiness.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/Edward-Craven72-300x257.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"257\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.legalbusiness.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/Edward-Craven72-300x257.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.legalbusiness.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/Edward-Craven72-768x658.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.legalbusiness.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/Edward-Craven72-1024x878.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.legalbusiness.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/Edward-Craven72-664x569.jpg 664w, https:\/\/www.legalbusiness.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/Edward-Craven72-496x425.jpg 496w, https:\/\/www.legalbusiness.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/Edward-Craven72-326x279.jpg 326w, https:\/\/www.legalbusiness.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/Edward-Craven72-176x151.jpg 176w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\"\/>Edward Craven, Matrix Chambers<\/span><\/b><span data-ccp-props=\"{}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-contrast=\"auto\">In a diverse practice illustrated by ranking in nine Legal 500 practice areas, Edward Craven is best known for cases at the interaction of human rights, technology and business. In 2024, he was a lead junior in the case of a number of Nepali and Bangladeshi migrant workers, who were found to be able to bring their claim against Dyson, for alleged human trafficking it its Malaysian supply chain, in the English courts \u2013 his work in this space playing a key role in securing him the title of group litigation junior of the year at the 2024 Legal 500 Bar awards. Regarding AI, he also represented the defendant in <\/span><i><span data-contrast=\"auto\">Andrew Prismall v Google UK Limited<\/span><\/i><span data-contrast=\"auto\">, securing a strike-out of a claim over the Royal Free Hospital\u2019s co-operation with Sir Demis Hassabis\u2019 Google Deepmind to detect and treat acute kidney injury. Other work includes sports and financial crime cases.<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b><span data-contrast=\"auto\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" id=\"force-float-right\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-90073\" src=\"https:\/\/www.legalbusiness.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/Nakul_Dewan_High_res72-280x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"280\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.legalbusiness.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/Nakul_Dewan_High_res72-280x300.jpg 280w, https:\/\/www.legalbusiness.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/Nakul_Dewan_High_res72-768x822.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.legalbusiness.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/Nakul_Dewan_High_res72-957x1024.jpg 957w, https:\/\/www.legalbusiness.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/Nakul_Dewan_High_res72-664x711.jpg 664w, https:\/\/www.legalbusiness.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/Nakul_Dewan_High_res72-496x531.jpg 496w, https:\/\/www.legalbusiness.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/Nakul_Dewan_High_res72-326x349.jpg 326w, https:\/\/www.legalbusiness.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/Nakul_Dewan_High_res72-176x188.jpg 176w, https:\/\/www.legalbusiness.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/Nakul_Dewan_High_res72.jpg 1042w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 280px) 100vw, 280px\"\/>Nakul Dewan, Twenty Essex<\/span><\/b><span data-ccp-props=\"{}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-contrast=\"auto\">Already a notable senior lawyer on the international arbitration circuit, Nakul Dewan adds English silk to a career which has seen him designated as a Senior Advocate in 2019 by the Supreme Court of India. He is already ranked as a tier one leading Silk in Legal 500 Asia Pacific\u2019s Regional International Arbitration: the Bar coverage, on the strength of his Indian designation. Dewan is active both as counsel and arbitrator across a range of commercial and energy disputes, and is one of the small but growing cohort of English barristers primarily based in Singapore. He follows in the footsteps of Harish Salve KC of Blackstone Chambers, who has dual designation both in India (in 1992) and England (2020).<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b><span data-contrast=\"auto\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" id=\"force-float-right\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-90069\" src=\"https:\/\/www.legalbusiness.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/Jacqueline-Renton72-1-300x184.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"184\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.legalbusiness.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/Jacqueline-Renton72-1-300x184.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.legalbusiness.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/Jacqueline-Renton72-1-768x470.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.legalbusiness.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/Jacqueline-Renton72-1-1024x627.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.legalbusiness.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/Jacqueline-Renton72-1-664x406.jpg 664w, https:\/\/www.legalbusiness.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/Jacqueline-Renton72-1-496x304.jpg 496w, https:\/\/www.legalbusiness.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/Jacqueline-Renton72-1-326x200.jpg 326w, https:\/\/www.legalbusiness.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/Jacqueline-Renton72-1-176x108.jpg 176w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\"\/>Jacqueline Renton, 4PB<\/span><\/b><span data-ccp-props=\"{}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-contrast=\"auto\">Ranked in the top tier for family: children and domestic abuse in Legal 500, Jacqueline Renton is notable for her practice in private international law in the family context. Many of her cases concern the Hague Convention 1980,\u00a0including 77 reported cases, 16\u00a0 Court of Appeal cases and six appeals\u00a0to the UK Supreme Court. Recently, she \u2013 pro bono \u2013 represented\u00a0the\u00a0father of a fifteen-year-old in 2024 Court of Appeal case\u00a0<i>Re P<\/i>, in which the child sought to stay in the United Kingdom with his Spanish father, against the wishes of the child\u2019s mother, who sought a Hague Convention return order<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">.<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b><span data-contrast=\"auto\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" id=\"force-float-right\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-90061\" src=\"https:\/\/www.legalbusiness.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/Niranjan-Venkatesan7272-300x237.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"237\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.legalbusiness.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/Niranjan-Venkatesan7272-300x237.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.legalbusiness.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/Niranjan-Venkatesan7272-768x607.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.legalbusiness.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/Niranjan-Venkatesan7272-664x525.jpg 664w, https:\/\/www.legalbusiness.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/Niranjan-Venkatesan7272-496x392.jpg 496w, https:\/\/www.legalbusiness.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/Niranjan-Venkatesan7272-326x258.jpg 326w, https:\/\/www.legalbusiness.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/Niranjan-Venkatesan7272-176x139.jpg 176w, https:\/\/www.legalbusiness.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/Niranjan-Venkatesan7272.jpg 794w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\"\/>Niranjan Venkatesan, One Essex Court<\/span><\/b><span data-ccp-props=\"{}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-contrast=\"auto\">As victor of junior of the year at the 2023 Legal 500 Bar Awards, Niranjan Venkatesan\u2019s name is an unsurprising feature of this year\u2019s list of appointments. While also called to the Indian Bar \u2013 in an appointment round with several selections showcasing the English legal profession\u2019s links to the world\u2019s largest common law jurisdiction \u2013 his practice is no means defined by those connections, having appeared across a varied range of large cases in the Commercial Court and International arbitration, such as having appeared as a leading junior for the defendants in the <\/span><i><span data-contrast=\"auto\">Invest Bank v El-Husseini<\/span><\/i><span data-contrast=\"auto\"> litigation.<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b><span data-contrast=\"auto\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" id=\"force-float-right\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-90053\" src=\"https:\/\/www.legalbusiness.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/Dan-Feetham72-300x210.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"210\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.legalbusiness.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/Dan-Feetham72-300x210.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.legalbusiness.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/Dan-Feetham72-664x464.jpg 664w, https:\/\/www.legalbusiness.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/Dan-Feetham72-496x346.jpg 496w, https:\/\/www.legalbusiness.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/Dan-Feetham72-326x228.jpg 326w, https:\/\/www.legalbusiness.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/Dan-Feetham72-176x123.jpg 176w, https:\/\/www.legalbusiness.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/Dan-Feetham72.jpg 766w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\"\/>Daniel Feetham KC, 3 Hare Court and Hassans<\/span><\/b><span data-ccp-props=\"{}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-contrast=\"auto\">One may think that <\/span><i><span data-contrast=\"auto\">Legal Business<\/span><\/i><span data-contrast=\"auto\"> has committed a typographical error, or worse, a major blunder in protocol, by including Feetham KC\u2019s postnominals prior to this year\u2019s ceremony in Westminster Hall. Not so: he already has the designation in respect of Gibraltar, the jurisdiction in which he was born, raised and built his career in private practice, rising to role of head of litigation at market-leading firm Hassans. He adds English silk to his CV, having become a full member of London set 3 Hare Court in 2023. In politics, he served as Minister of Justice from 2007 to 2011 among other roles in the British Overseas Territory.<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b><span data-contrast=\"auto\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" id=\"force-float-right\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-90079\" src=\"https:\/\/www.legalbusiness.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/Jason-Pobjoy72-300x234.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"234\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.legalbusiness.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/Jason-Pobjoy72-300x234.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.legalbusiness.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/Jason-Pobjoy72-768x598.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.legalbusiness.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/Jason-Pobjoy72-1024x797.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.legalbusiness.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/Jason-Pobjoy72-664x517.jpg 664w, https:\/\/www.legalbusiness.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/Jason-Pobjoy72-496x386.jpg 496w, https:\/\/www.legalbusiness.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/Jason-Pobjoy72-326x254.jpg 326w, https:\/\/www.legalbusiness.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/Jason-Pobjoy72-176x137.jpg 176w, https:\/\/www.legalbusiness.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/Jason-Pobjoy72.jpg 1435w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\"\/>Jason Pobjoy, Blackstone Chambers<\/span><\/b><span data-ccp-props=\"{}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-contrast=\"auto\">Jason Pobjoy has a diverse practice, covering both public law and commercial cases. In public law, he is known for his work for the claimants in the litigation over the government\u2019s proposal to relocate asylum seekers to Rwanda, and for the Duke of Sussex in the judicial review surrounding his security arrangements, as well as for the Government Legal Department in Russian sanctions cases, such as those concerning ex-Formula One driver (and son of oligarch Dimitry) Nikita Mazepin. Of late, he represented Elliott Management in an appeal of its judicial review of the London Metal Exchange\u2019s decision to suspend trading in nickel futures in March 2022, after a price spike which \u2013 if the trades stood \u2013 would have left LME members on the hook for a $20bn margin call. In late 2024, in a now-unusual case for an English barrister to take on post-Brexit, instructed by Carter-Ruck he successfully represented a Moldovan client in a judicial review.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The King\u2019s Counsel system remains the most prized designation for elite advocates in the world. One hundred and five lawyers \u2013 104 barristers and one solicitor \u2013 were selected from the 2024 process, the results of which were announced last week. 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