• PIFSS v. Al Rajaan – defending claim regarding alleged secret commissions worth hundreds of millions of dollars (with Tom Adam KC and Douglas Paine).
• Município de Mariana v. BHP – acting for the Part 20 Defendant in a group action concerning the collapse of a Brazilian dam where over 730,000 claimants are seeking damages of around £36 billion (with Simon Salzedo KC, Richard Eschwege KC, Michael Bolding, and Charles Wall).
• Acerus Pharmaceuticals v Recipharm [2021] EWHC 1878 (Comm) – the trial of a preliminary issue regarding the interpretation of an exclusion clause (as a pupil with Sarah Abram KC).
• Allianz Global Investors GmbH and ors v Barclays Bank plc and ors [2021] EWHC 399 (Comm) – application to strike out pass-on and tax reduction defences (as a pupil with Sarah Abram KC and Tom Wood).
• Defending claim regarding the allegedly fraudulent sale of over 1,000 structured derivative products (as a pupil with Tony Singla KC).
• Application for summary judgment in respect of various allegations arising from a residential mortgage-backed securitisation (as a pupil with Tony Singla KC).
• Defending a claim regarding the alleged breach of a director’s employment contract providing for compulsory buyback of the director’s shares (as a pupil with Tony Singla KC).

• Application to the General Court under Article 263(4) of the TFEU to annul a decision of the European Medical Agency (with David Scannell KC).
• Arcadia Petroleum Ltd v Bosworth & Ors [2021] EWCA Civ 687 – jurisdiction challenge concerning whether claims are related to individual contracts of employment within the meaning of Art 18(1) of the Lugano Convention (as a pupil with Richard Eschwege KC).
• The Public Institution for Social Security v Al Rajaan and others [2020] EWHC 2979 (Comm) - jurisdiction challenge under Article 23 Lugano Convention in claim to recover alleged secret commissions worth hundreds of millions (as a pupil with Tony Singla KC).

• Arbitration concerning a loan of Ethereum worth several million dollars made for investment in the Grayscale Ethereum Trust (with Tony Singla KC).
• LCIA arbitration concerning a multi-million repo transaction under a Global Master Repurchase Agreement 2000 (as a pupil with Richard Eschwege KC).

• Merricks v. Mastercard - representing the Class Representative in a collective action brought on behalf of 45.5 million consumers seeking aggregate damages of over £16 billion in respect of unlawful interchange fees (with Marie Demetriou KC, Victoria Wakefield KC, and Paul Luckhurst).
• Sisvel v Archos & ors [2021] EWHC 1541 (Pat) – whether a pool licence may be FRAND (as a pupil with Sarah Abram KC)
• Rail Fares CPO application (Justin Gutmann v Stagecoach & ors) – application for a collective proceedings order in the first standalone collective proceedings and the first to concern an alleged abuse of dominance (as a pupil with Sarah Abram KC)
• Litigation concerning the Trucks cartel (as a pupil with Sarah Abram KC, acting for Volvo and Renault Trucks)

Education & professional experience:

• 2021 – 2022: Judicial assistant to Lord Lloyd-Jones at the UK Supreme Court
• 2020 – 2021: Pupillage at Brick Court Chambers
• 2019 – 2020: Thouron Fellow, LLM at the University of Pennsylvania (distinction, top of year)
• 2017 – 2019: Trainee solicitor at Allen & Overy LLP
• 2016 – 2017: LPC at BPP University (distinction)
• 2015 – 2016: GDL at BPP University (distinction)
• 2012 – 2015: BA in Theology at Trinity College, Oxford (first, top of year)

Awards:

• University of Pennsylvania – Karin Iest Award for excellence, given to best-performing student out of a class of 126
• University of Pennsylvania – Thouron Award Fellow, providing tuition fees and a living stipend
• Winner, European Investment Law and Arbitration Review’s 2020 essay competition.
• Winner, Competition Law Association’s Golding Essay Prize 2018
• Highly Commended, Law Society’s Junior Lawyers’ Division Essay Prize 2017
• University of Oxford – Gibbs Prize, for the best undergraduate performance in Theology
• Trinity College – R. A. Knox Senior Memorial Prize, for academic performance in final exams

‘Assessing the CJEU’s decisions in Achmea and Opinion 1/17 in light of the proposed Multilateral Investment Court’, (2020) 5 The European Investment Law and Arbitration Review 1, 213-239

‘In Defence of a UK Doctrine of Equivalents’, (2019) 41 The European Intellectual Property Review 3, 147-154

Crawford has also published a number of case comments and blog posts on legal matters.