James Pearce-Smith

James Pearce-Smith

Call 2002 (Inner Temple)
Qualifications MA (Cantab), Admitted as a Solicitor 1994
Professional Memberships Chancery Bar Association

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Areas of Practice

James Pearce-Smith specialises in commercial and chancery litigation. For the eight years prior to joining St John’s Chambers, James was a commercial litigation solicitor with two major law firms. His practice largely consisted of cases in the Mercantile Court and the Chancery Division of the High Court, and included a major HSE public inquiry. As well as acting for companies, directors, shareholders and partners in substantial commercial disputes, James had a particular specialism in professional negligence claims and had conduct of two of the claims in Nationwide Building Society v Balmer Radmore and related actions [1999] PNLR 606.

As a barrister James has continued to act and advise in commercial disputes and professional negligence claims, but has also developed his practice in other areas of chancery work.

Commercial Contract Disputes

Company Law

Professional Negligence

Partnership Disputes

Banking

Civil Fraud

Insolvency: Personal and Corporate

Property Litigation

Trusts, Probate and Inheritance

Recommendations

Chambers UK 2010

Chambers UK 2009

Legal 500 2009

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