Jonathan Chew

Practice Overview

Jonathan Chew became a tenant in September 2011 after successfully completing his pupillage. He experienced a wide range of commercial and chancery work, including: pensions, civil fraud, domestic and international commercial disputes, landlord and tenant, real property, trusts and probate, company and insolvency, and professional negligence. Jonathan is developing a broad practice in line with Chambers' practice areas and is particularly interested in cases with an international element. He is equally happy acting individually or as part of a team.

During his second six, Jonathan was instructed in his own right on a range of written and court work in Chambers' practice areas.

Jonathan has also been instructed as a junior:

• with Martin Hutchings QC, in the Chancery Division, in a dispute between a bank and finance house as to the relative priority of their security interests in a fund representing the proceeds of sale of properties acquired by a fraudster;
  
  
• with Joanna Smith QC, in the Privy Council, on an appeal from a professional disciplinary tribunal raising issues of the compliance of the self-regulatory procedure adopted by the profession with the right to a fair trial;
  
  
• alongside Rupert Reed, in the Commercial Court, resisting a summary judgment claim for a US$500 million debt claim in respect of guarantees given and development property mortgaged under a restructuring agreement following an alleged fraud in the Middle East relating to assets worldwide. 

Qualifications

Jonathan read for a double degree in law at Emmanuel College, Cambridge and the Université de Paris II (Panthéon-Assas), graduating in 2008 with a BA (Hons) in English law and a Maîtrise en droit (Master's) in French law.  He won University prizes for the best performance in Land Law and Public International Law. In 2009, he was awarded a distinction on the BCL and a College Prize from Brasenose College, Oxford. He studied Restitution, Conflicts of Laws, Advanced Property and Trusts, and European Private Law of Contract.

At Bar School, Jonathan was awarded Middle Temple's highest scholarship, a Queen Mother Scholarship, and a Certificate of Honour for his Outstanding grade on the BVC.

Before coming to the Bar, Jonathan was a legal research assistant to Professor Stefan Vogenauer at the University of Oxford, working on the interaction between "soft law" codes and the mandatory rules of English contract law.