Call: 1992
"He's brilliant. Jonathan is creative, strategic, knowledgeable and hard working. He is also a charming yet effective advocate; a winning combination."
Legal 500 2025
Jonathan Gavaghan is a self-employed, independent barrister whose practice is governed by the Code of Conduct of the Bar of England and Wales. He is regulated by The Bar Standards Board [Bar Ref 29030] and is fully insured with the Bar Mutual Indemnity Fund [BMIF Ref 2360/025] to provide legal services, please refer to the BMIF website for full details of the world-wide cover provided. He is registered for VAT under the reference 648945679.
Jonathan Gavaghan has a specialist chancery and commercial practice with particular experience in partnership / LLP disputes, commercial disputes and property law. Company law (including breach of fiduciary duty claims and shareholder disputes) is a further area in which he specialises.
He studied law at Oxford University where he obtained a first-class degree. Top of his year in Land Law, he subsequently obtained a BCL and returned to Worcester College, Oxford as a visiting tutor in constitutional law.
He is a Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators.
Jonathan is recognised in the Legal Directories as being one of the leading junior counsel in the partnership / LLP field. He has dealt with numerous partnership and LLP disputes and is regularly instructed by managing partners of firms as well as individual partners. He has acted in disputes for solicitors, accountants, farmers, doctors, dentists, veterinary surgeons and stone masons to name a few.
He has extensive experience in dealing with partner exits and team moves both in an advisory capacity and dealing with litigation and injunctions: including issues of enforceability of post-termination restrictions and breach of fiduciary duty.
He also has very substantial experience in arbitration matters. He is a Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators and accepts appointments as an arbitrator.
He was elected to the Committee of the Association of Partnership Practitioners in 2020.
Much of his work is highly confidential given its nature but recent highlights include:
Jonathan is recommended in Chambers & Partners UK, Chambers & Partners Global and the Legal 500 as a leading junior in commercial chancery work.
He has extensive experience in appearing in contractual disputes including those with an international dimension, shareholder disputes and actions for and against directors of companies. He has also appeared as an advocate in many civil fraud cases obtaining or opposing urgent interlocutory relief including freezing injunctions and related relief.
He has substantial experience of arbitration having appeared in lengthy proceedings before the LCIA and other arbitral tribunals and connected High Court proceedings.
The Directories refer to his commercial chancery work as follows:
Jonathan came top of his year in Land Law at Oxford and specialises in all areas of property law, in particular landlord and tenant, land registration and real property.
He advises property developers, landlords and tenants. He appears before the Courts, property tribunals and in arbitrations.
The Directories say the following about Jonathan:
Jonathan has great arbitration experience and acts either as an advocate or as an arbitrator.
He is a Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators.
He is used to appearing in complicated multi-party arbitrations as well as applying for interim applications under section 44 of the Arbitration Act 1996 and appearing on appeals and challenges to arbitrators’ awards.
The Directories say the following about Jonathan:
“Offers especially extensive experience as an arbitrator of, or arbitration counsel in, partnership disputes” Chambers & Partners (2020);
His recent work as counsel or arbitrator includes:
Jonathan has experience in acting for executors, trustees and beneficiaries in contentious probate disputes as well as connected disputes with a property or commercial element.
Jonathan Gavaghan is speaking at the Association of Partnership Practitioner’s main workshop tonight on “Partnerships,…
Good Faith, Fiduciary Duties and Braganza in Partnerships, LLPS and ELPS the extension of the…
Chambers has been highly ranked again in the Chambers and Partners 2025 UK Bar directory….
