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John Randall QC is a British Barrister from Foxton, Leicestershire.

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He attended Jesus College, Cambridge. His legal career began when he was called to the bar in 1978. [1] ; commencing practice in 1980, and took silk in 1995 [1] He served as a recorder from 1996 to 2016 and as Deputy High Court Judge from 2000 to 2016 [2] . As a co-founding member of St Philips Chambers, Birmingham, in 1998, he is one of their longest-serving barristers. He is also a barrister of both New South Wales, since 1979, and  Western Australia , since 2001 [1] .  His primary practice area is chancery and commercial law, which extends to companies, partnerships, and corporate insolvency [3] , regarding solicitors and accountants in particular. He also has experience in professional negligence, including sports law matters, and real property [3] , whereby he has advised leading national developers. In addition to an array of well-documented cases, he has been known to undertake common law work, and judicial reviews [4]  relating to his typical areas of practice. Hi...
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John Randall QC - Chancery House Chambers

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  John represents significant national and regional developers in a variety of high-value commercial disputes, including a lot of contractually based property work. He is the only silk operating outside London who is ranked for Real Estate Litigation in the 2012 Chambers UK Guide. Read ,more about John Randall QC
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Birmingham City Council v Afsar and others

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  June 2019 Judgment of the High Court, Queen’s Bench Division is reported at [2019] Education Law Reports 373, and on BAILII . Clients: Three named protestors. I represented three protestors, all of the Muslim faith, who disagreed with Anderton Park Primary School’s stance on teaching children matters relating to sexual behaviour, sexuality and gender. The Council had obtained interim injunctions on without notice applications to restrain protests taking place outside the school. This hearing was for the Council’s application for those injunctions to be continued. The judge (Mr Justice Warby) concluded that the Council had failed to comply with its procedural responsibilities, including a failure to identify the relevance of the Human Rights Act 1998 s.12(3) and therefore discharged the without notice injunctions. However, notwithstanding those deficiencies, fresh, more limited, interim injunctions were imposed to protect against harassment and other antisocial behaviour, while p...
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