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James Green

James Green

Call: 2015

Barrister

"He is very responsive and his advocacy is always lucid and succinct."

Legal 500 2025

"Commercially excellent and incredibly knowledgeable. He is always calm and sensible."

Legal 500 2024

“James is outstanding - he is super clever, knows the law inside out, gives beautifully-balanced commercial advice, and is great with clients.”

Legal 500 2023

James Green

"He is very responsive and his advocacy is always lucid and succinct."

Legal 500 2025

"Commercially excellent and incredibly knowledgeable. He is always calm and sensible."

Legal 500 2024

“James is outstanding - he is super clever, knows the law inside out, gives beautifully-balanced commercial advice, and is great with clients.”

Legal 500 2023

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James is a specialist practitioner in employment, sports and commercial law. He has particular expertise in discrimination law, business protection disputes and investigations.

Recent work has included:

  • Stifel Nicolaus Europe Limited v Jefferies International Limited & ors – led by David Reade KC, James acts for the claimant in an employee competition and conspiracy claim in the financial sector
  • Yorkshire County Cricket Club Investigation – following the widespread coverage of the accounts of Azeem Rafiq and others, James has been appointed as part of a team led by Mohinderpal Sethi KC to investigate allegations of discrimination by YCCC
  • Acting for a director following his exclusion from the management of the company in breach of the Shareholders’ Agreement
  • Being led by James Bickford Smith and Tom Montagu-Smith KC in the DIFC courts on an employee competition claim in the medical sector
  • Achieving a high-value settlement for a senior executive at a well-known firm following a discriminatory investigation and demotion, led by James Bickford Smith
  • Singh v Rethink Recruitment Limited & ors – successfully acting for the end user in a complex case involving an agency relationship and wide-ranging allegations of discrimination, in which the Tribunal accepted that the claimant had forged key documents
  • Acting for a Claimant alleging discrimination by a political party because of her gender critical beliefs

Prior to undertaking pupillage at Littleton, James spent a year working at the Court of Appeal as a judicial assistant to the former Lord Chief Justice, Lord Thomas, working on cases such as R(Miller) v Secretary of State for Exiting the European Union and R v Alexander Blackman.

Before becoming a barrister, James lived in Japan for two years as a Daiwa scholar, funded by the Daiwa Anglo-Japanese Foundation, where he studied Japanese and worked as a journalist.

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