Chris Jeyes is a Legal 500 “Leading Junior” barrister for 2026.
“'Christopher is always very well prepared. He is always calm and deals with any client with confidence. He is persuasive when making submissions to the court.'”
With nearly 30 years’ legal experience and a wide-ranging legal career which has included time at the traditional bar as well as in Government Legal Service, and as a partner in a large regional solicitors firm, Chris has appeared at all levels of the court and tribunal system. Chris is well-placed to advise and represent individuals and companies in the most complex of proceedings.
In the past Chris has dealt with:
Contractual and Employment disputes, both Claimant and Defendant, including wrongful and unfair dismissal, discrimination, TUPE, deduction from wages and other similar issues
Commercial cases including contractual disputes, breach of trust and economic torts
Chancery applications by trustee in bankruptcy (proprietary estoppel, constructive trust etc)
Inquests and coronial law (including art.2 Middleton inquests, deaths in custody, failures of social services, unlawful killing in high speed maritime accident)
Civil trials on all tracks of the court system
Criminal trials including multi-million pound international fraud allegations, and civil High Court proceedings arising from the same (as well as the whole range of serious criminal work, both prosecution and defence)
Money laundering and confiscation (regularly instructed to prosecute and defence confiscation cases, and took a leading role in the landmark case of Haden [2024] 1 WLR 4777)
Judicial review proceedings in the High Court
Appeals by Way of Case Stated to the High Court (both bringing and defending)
Appeals in the Court of Appeal, particularly in relation to complex confiscation issues and statutory interpretation
A novel human rights appeal on Guernsey law to the Judicial Committee of the Privy Council (the Supreme Court wearing a different hat)
Road traffic up to and including death by dangerous driving
Licensing (both for the authority and the licensee, before the Committee, in the Magistrates’ and in the Crown Court)
Local authority prosecutions and other work (trading standards, planning, environmental, injunctive)
Personal injury including occupier liability, highways, employer liability, road traffic (including fraud).
Chris is a door tenant at Quartz Chambers, Nottingham, and a tenant at Drystone Chambers, a specialist London criminal set. Chris is based in the East Midlands but travels nationwide (and beyond).
Aside from practice at the Bar, Chris is an expert in AI and its application to professional work. Through a separate consultancy he advises on AI governance and strategy, and trains lawyers and others on the proper and effective use of artificial intelligence. Education:
Brunel University – First Class HonoursNottingham Trent University – Diploma in Law with DistinctionBPP Law School – Bar Vocational Course (Very Competent with Outstanding Aspects)Grays Inn – Call 2005, Holker Scholar & Mould Scholar (one of the 4 senior awards), winner of the inaugural Gray’s Inn Mooting CompetitionRed Bag 2012 (an award from a silk to a junior for exceptional work)
