Anthony Jones

Practice Areas

Anthony has a broad practice in commercial litigation, international arbitration, professional liability claims, civil fraud, public international law, and human rights. Anthony has extensive experience before domestic and international tribunals, including the Supreme Court, Court of Appeal, the European Court of Human Rights, the EU Courts, and ICSID arbitral tribunals, as well as in a range of offshore jurisdictions (the DIFC, Antigua, Barbados, the Isle of Man, and St Vincent and the Grenadines).

Anthony has recently acted in a number of important cases, led and unled, including the litigation regarding insurance responses to the Covid-19 pandemic [2021] AC 649 (UKSC) & [2020] EWHC 2448 (Comm), Re Edwardian Group Ltd [2018] EWHC 1715 (Ch) (a successful £140 million unfair prejudice petition), Khanty-Mansiysk Recoveries Ltd v Forsters [2018] EWCA Civ 89 & [2016] EWHC 522 (Comm) (successful defence to a £75 million Russian investment claim), R (Campaign Against Arms Trade) v Secretary of State [2019] EWCA Civ 1020 & [2017] EWHC 1754 (Admin) (challenge to arms exports to Saudi Arabia), Wikimedia v Turkey (challenge to Turkey’s ban on Wikipedia), Hanan v Germany (extraterritorial application of European Convention to drone strikes in Afghanistan), and C/458-19 P ClientEarth v European Commission (challenge to compliance of EU chemicals regulation regime with public international law).

Career

Education: BA (Law) (First Class Hons), Oxford; MA (Classical Chinese) (Distinction), Sydney; BA (Classical Chinese) (First Class Hons and University Medal), Sydney; Diploma in Chinese, Beijing Yuyan Daxue.