Brick Court Chambers

Crawford Jamieson

Crawford Jamieson

YEAR OF CALL: 2020

Incredibly responsive, analytically sharp, excellent understanding of the papers, and strong strategic instincts.
Legal 500 2026
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Crawford has a broad practice which is focused on heavy-duty commercial litigation and competition law. Crawford has considerable experience of substantial commercial and competition litigation, acting as part of large counsel teams in Kent v. Apple, Município de Mariana v. BHP, PIFSS v. Al Rajaan, and Merricks v. Mastercard. Crawford is equally happy to accept instructions as sole counsel.

Crawford is identified as a rising star in Commercial Litigation by Legal 500 2025.

Before starting practice, Crawford worked as the judicial assistant to Lord Lloyd-Jones at the Supreme Court. Crawford graduated top of his year in both his undergraduate degree (BA in Theology at the University of Oxford) and his LLM degree (at the University of Pennsylvania, where he was a Thouron Fellow). He has received numerous academic awards and prizes.

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  • Commercial M
    • IMSS Bienestar v. Viva Enterprises Ltd and Robert Dangoor – defending a US$60 million fraud claim regarding the sale of ventilators to the Mexican health service for use during the Covid-19 pandemic (with Richard Eschwege KC).
    • Advising unled in relation to a potential multi-million claim for unlawful means conspiracy and other economic torts.
    • Provided an opinion for a confidential expert determination in relation to an accounting dispute arising from a multi-billion SPA (with Tony Singla KC).
    • Advising in relation to a confidential claim worth hundreds of millions (with Robert O’Donoghue KC and Max Schaefer).
    • Pogust Goodhead v. Vale – instructed to defend Pogust Goodhead’s potential claim against Vale and others for equitable lien interference and unlawful means conspiracy (with Simon Salzedo KC).
    • 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 sought damages of around £36 billion (with Simon Salzedo KC, Vernon Flynn KC, Richard Eschwege KC, Michael Bolding, and Charles Wall).
    • Advising unled in relation to the enforceability of a deed of assignment of significant commercial claims involving a high street brand.
    • Providing an opinion in relation to a confidential potential claim for breach of a license agreement (with Tony Singla KC).
    • 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).
    • 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).
  • Competition M
    • Kent v. Apple and Ennis v. Apple – Instructed to defend Apple in two related collective proceedings concerning the App Store (with Marie Demetriou KC, Brian Kennelly KC, Daniel Piccinin KC, and Hugo Leith).
    • The Professional Tennis Players Association v. ATP – Instructed to defend ATP in relation to potential proceedings alleging anti-competitive conduct (with Helen Davies KC and Max Schaefer).
    • Wolfson v. Microsoft – Acting in the proposed opt-out class action claim against Microsoft seeking a multi-bullion damages award (with Tony Singla KC and Hugo Leith).
    • Advising in relation to a confidential claim worth hundreds of millions (with Robert O’Donoghue KC and Max Schaefer).
    • Advising in relation to a potential claim for urgent injunctive relief to restrain an infringement of competition law (with Sarah Ford 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).
  • Arbitration M
    • BHP v. Vale [2023] EWHC 3281 (TCC)acting for Vale in its application under s.9 of the Arbitration Act 1996 to stay proceedings in favour of arbitration.
    • 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).
  • EDUCATION & QUALIFICATIONS M

    Education & professional experience:

    • 2021 – 2022: Judicial assistant to Lord Lloyd-Jones at the UK Supreme Court
    • 2020 – 2021: Pupillage at Brick Court Chambers
    • 2020: Received Higher Rights of Audience
    • 2019 – 2020: Thouron Fellow, LLM at the University of Pennsylvania (distinction, top of year)
    • 2019: Admitted as a solicitor in England & Wales
    • 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)
  • PUBLICATIONS M

    ‘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

  • DIRECTORY QUOTES M

    Incredibly responsive, analytically sharp, excellent understanding of the papers, and strong strategic instincts. (Legal 500, 2026)