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PROFILE
James Corbett KC
James Corbett is a Jersey Advocate and English Barrister. He was the first ever practising English King’s Counsel to be called to the Jersey Bar.
He practises as Advocate James Corbett in Jersey and as James Corbett KC in England and Wales and internationally.
James has been a practising lawyer since 1975. He has appeared as counsel in courts and arbitrations throughout the world. He was formerly a Recorder (part-time judge) and deputy High Court Judge in England and Wales and is currently a panel Deemster in the Isle of Man, where he sits as a trial judge and judge of the Staff of Government Division (the Manx court of appeal).
James is a Chartered Arbitrator and Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators and the Hong Kong and Singapore Institutes of Arbitrators and is a member of several arbitration panels. He has been a CEDR accredited and registered mediator since 2001 and has mediated many commercial disputes in England, Jersey and internationally. He is also a member of the Commercial Bar Association (ComBar), the Chancery Bar Association, the Society of Trust and Estate Practitioners (STEP) and the Association of Contentious Trust and Probate Specialists (ACTAPS).
His areas of particular expertise are:
Commercial and company law (including board and shareholder disputes)
Insolvency and bankruptcy
Intellectual property and
Contentious trust and estate disputes.
James was a member of Serle Court, in Lincoln’s Inn, London, one of the most prestigious sets of commercial and chancery barristers, until 2010.
He was then a partner in Kobre & Kim, a New York-based international law firm for 8 years before, in 2018, relocating his practice to Jersey where he was formerly Senior Counsel in a prominent litigation firm before setting up JCKC Law and the Chambers of James Corbett KC.
James is a regular speaker at international conferences.
He is a Jersey Advocate and the principal of JCKC Law and also head of the Chambers of James Corbett KC.
James practises as counsel and as a commercial arbitrator and mediator.
Curriculum Vitae
1963 – 1970: Sloane School, Chelsea
1970 – 1973: University of Exeter, LLB
1973 – 1975: University of Exeter, Centre for European Legal Studies. LLM in European Legal Studies
1974 – 1975: Inns of Court School of Law. Bar Final Examinations
1975: Called to the Bar of England and Wales
1975 – 1977: Lecturer in law, University of Leicester
1999: Appointed Queen’s Counsel (England & Wales)
2000: Appointed a Recorder of the Crown Court
2001: Accredited Mediator, Centre for Effective Dispute Resolution (CEDR)
2007: Elected Master of the Bench, Inner Temple
2008: Appointed Deputy High Court Judge (England and Wales)
2010 - 2018 Partner in Kobre & Kim (UK) LLP – London subsidiary of an international law firm headquartered in New York.
Acted as managing partner of newly-created London and (from 2012-2014, Cayman Islands offices
Sept 2018: Joined Baker & Partners, St Helier, Jersey as Senior Counsel (from September 2018)
Aug 2022: Head of Chambers of Chambers of James Corbett QC and Principal of JCKC Law, St Helier, Jersey
Jan 2023: Called to the Bar of Jersey
