Jaron is a Solicitor-Advocate with Higher Rights of Audience, due to be called to the Bar in 2026. He leads the firm’s litigation team with Christopher Snell, across commercial, financial services, insolvency and tax disputes. Jaron’s practice is built on high-value, technically demanding disputes across the firm’s core contentious areas: financial services litigation, contentious tax, corporate and personal insolvency, civil fraud and asset recovery, and professional negligence. He also brings particular expertise to media, privacy and defamation claims.
Jaron advises individuals, office-holders and major corporates, both domestic and international, across a diverse range of sectors. He brings to complex commercial disputes a tireless work ethic, sharp attention to detail and a creative, strategic mind. An accomplished litigator — “calm, clever and with great judgment” — he is recognised in particular for his ability to resolve the most contentious and hard-fought disputes. That standing has seen him featured in national publications including The Times; invited to the House of Commons to address large-scale banking fraud; and selected for a private roundtable of the Independent Steering Committee on the Business Banking Resolution Service.
Jaron graduated from Durham University with a double First Class Honours in Law. He built his foundation in complex commercial litigation at City of London firms, both before and during his completion of the Legal Practice Course at BPP University Law School, which he passed with a Distinction, ranking first in his cohort. He was subsequently awarded Higher Rights of Audience (Civil) by the University of Law, Moorgate. First as a Solicitor and now as a Solicitor-Advocate, he has had conduct of matters before the County Court, the High Court (Chancery, King’s Bench and Commercial Court), the Court of Appeal, the Administrative Court, the Senior Courts Costs Office and the First-tier and Upper Tax Tribunals.
Jaron is a member of the London Solicitors Litigation Association (LSLA), the Professional Negligence Lawyers Association (PNLA) and the Commercial Litigation Association (CLA).
Notable Experience
- Commercial, Business & Property Litigation: high-value breach of contract claims for international and domestic clients; shareholder, partnership and director disputes; urgent proprietary injunctions and freezing orders; professional negligence claims against solicitors and financial advisers; and disputes involving misrepresentation, breaches of warranty and contract. He acted for the successful party in Southgate v Graham [2024] EWHC 1692 (Ch), a leading decision on the correct date for assessing damages in a cryptocurrency dispute.
- Financial Services: complex financial mis-selling claims concerning derivatives and structured products, including interest rate hedging products and embedded swaps; LIBOR and foreign exchange manipulation claims; Consumer Credit Act 1974 unfair relationship claims; mis-sold bridging and property finance disputes; letters of credit, demand guarantees and cross-border trade disputes; lender and borrower contractual disputes; the defence of regulatory investigations (FCA) and judicial review of decisions by public bodies.
- Contentious Tax: HMRC disputes across the FTT, Upper Tribunal and Administrative Court, including VAT and MTIC fraud defence; penalty, security and personal liability notice appeals – among them acting for an award-winning construction company challenging retrospective VAT deregistration). Defence of HMRC investigations (COP8 & COP9) and voluntary disclosures of UK and offshore tax affairs for individuals and corporates. Jaron acted for a client in securing the withdrawal of a c.£1 million VAT assessment, successfully arguing it was levied against the wrong legal person.
- Corporate & Personal Insolvency: contentious insolvency for creditors and debtors in disputed winding-up and bankruptcy petitions. He has secured validation orders for corporate clients and injunctions restraining the presentation and advertisement of abusive petitions, and has brought and defended unfair prejudice petitions. He advised an office-holder in the defence of complex, multi-party, £multi-million misfeasance claims.
- Media & Communications: defamation, libel and malicious falsehood, including acting for high-profile figures in the entertainment and sporting worlds in relation to defamatory publications.
- Fraud & Asset Recovery: fraud, money laundering and proceeds of crime, including the recovery of misappropriated assets in both fiat and cryptocurrency. He has obtained third-party disclosure orders (Norwich Pharmacal and Bankers Trust) and successfully overturned a POCA account freezing order in an international money laundering investigation.
Creative, logical and respected for obtaining great outcomes for clients, Jaron combines technical depth with commercial pragmatism.