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Crawford Jamieson returns to chambers

23/09/22

Crawford Jamieson has returned to chambers after a year working as Lord Lloyd-Jones’ judicial assistant at the Supreme Court. Whilst at the Court, Crawford assisted Lord Lloyd-Jones with a number of significant cases spanning multiple areas of law. These included Maduro Board of the Central Bank of Venezuela v Guaidó Board of the Central Bank of Venezuela [2021] UKSC 57, [2022] 2 WLR 167, which concerned who was entitled to act for the Central Bank of Venezuela in respect of gold reserves of about US$1.95 billion held by the Bank of England. The case is now the leading authority on the recognition of foreign heads of state and the application of the act of state doctrine to executive appointments. Crawford also worked on appeals raising constitutional issues, such as Chandler v The State (No 2) [2022] UKPC 19, [2022] 3 WLR 39 (the constitutionality of the mandatory death penalty for the offence of murder in Trinidad and Tobago). In the private law sphere, Crawford was closely involved in cases concerning the doctrine of duress, the scope of the tort of nuisance, and the running of time for limitation in cases of fraud.

Crawford thus returns to chambers with a unique experience of appellate decision-making at the very highest level.