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

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.

His accolades include two Barrister of the Year awards - Birmingham Law Society’s Barrister of the Year award in 2012[5] and Acquisition International’s UK Barrister of the Year in 2013[4] - as well as Lawyer Monthly’s UK Land and Property Barrister of the Year in 2015[6]. Furthermore, he was listed in The Legal 500 in 2016 and 2020[7], and Who’s Who Legal in 2017 and 2019[2]. Chambers and Partners named him as one of their 'Stars at the Bar' in 2020[8], as well as describing him as a 'star individual' in their 2017 UK guide. Original Source

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