John Blackmore Email and Phone Number

John is a specialist commercial litigator. Before joining Chambers and establishing the Commercial & Chancery Practice Group, John was a partner in one of the largest commercial firms of barristers and solicitors in Auckland, New Zealand, where his cases included acting as Counsel on behalf of the New Zealand Government appointed administrators in two insolvencies of large financial services groups of companies, patent licensing arbitration in the USA and the defence of claims against a land development company, where the seafront development was subject to erosion. His practice in the UK has built on his New Zealand experience and he has been involved in a large number of commercial cases dealing with contractual, property disputes, shareholder disputes, professional partnership disputes, professional negligence claims, intellectual property, restraint of trade and civil fraud which have substantially contributed to the development of St John’s as a force in commercial litigation.