Jack Beatson

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)