Appointed since 2018

QUALIFICATIONS

• Called to the Bar in 1973
• He was a Member of Essex Court Chambers between 1982 and 1989, and 1994 and 2003
• Appointed Queen’s Counsel, 1998
• He holds Honorary Fellowships at Brasenose College, Oxford (where he studied law), Merton College, Oxford, and St John’s College, Cambridge

BAR, JUDICIAL EXPERIENCE

• Sir Jack Beatson was a member of the Court of Appeal of England and Wales between January 2013 and February 2018;
• Between 2003 and the end of 2012, he served as a Justice of the Queen’s Bench Division, sitting in the Administrative Court and the Commercial Court, as well as in the General QB list and presiding over criminal trials;
• He was Fellow and Tutor in Law at Merton College, Oxford between 1973 and 1994;
• Law Commissioner for England and Wales between 1989 and 1994;
• Member of the Competition Commission between 1995 and 2001;
• Rouse Ball Professor of English Law at Cambridge University and a Fellow of St John’s College, Cambridge from 1994 until 2003;
• At the Law Commission, Sir Jack led its work on contract and commercial law, civil evidence, damages, administrative law, and financial services;
• He was elected a Fellow of the British Academy of Humanities and Social Sciences in 2001, and awarded higher doctorates by the Universities of Oxford (DCL) Cambridge (LLD) on the basis of his publications;
• Since leaving the Court of Appeal, Sir Jack has become an arbitrator at 24 Lincoln’s Inn Fields and a Judge of the Astana International Financial Centre’s Court in the Republic of Kazakhstan;
• His appointment to Cayman Islands Court of Appeal begins in November 2018

PUBLICATIONS

• He has authored and edited leading legal texts including Anson’s Law of Contract (27th – 30th eds.), Good Faith and Fault in Contract Law (1995), and Human Rights: Judicial Protection in the United Kingdom (2006)