Jason Rix
PSL Counsel
London
Jason Rix
PSL Counsel
London
Contact Details
Jason has a varied commercial litigation practice which includes data protection, privilege, state immunity, conflicts of laws, crypto-assets, group litigation, the legal implications of Brexit and English contract law.
A while back, Jason was seconded to BT. This experience still serves as a vivid reminder of what it is like in-house.
He is the UK delegation expert to the European private law committee of the Council of Bars and Law Societies of Europe (CCBE). He has participated in several working committees of the Financial Markets Law Committee covering a variety of topics: Distributed Ledger Technology and Governing Law: Issues of Legal Uncertainty (2018), Response: Law Commission Call for Evidence on Digital Assets (2021) and Good Faith and Financial Contracts (ongoing).
In 2016, he set up Compact Contract (www.aocompactcontract.com) a blog focused on English contract law. He sits on A&O's litigation taskforce and its future disputes group.
Qualifications
Professional
Admitted as solicitor, England and Wales, 2001
Solicitor-Advocate (Higher Courts Civil Proceedings)
Academic
BA Law, Fitzwilliam College, Cambridge University, 1997
MA, Law, Fitzwilliam College, Cambridge University, 2001
LPC, 1998
Related articles
Blog Post: 26 May 2023
Impact of sanctions on payment obligations
One of the many legal consequences of Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine in February last year was that businesses were faced with having to analyse the exact remit of sanctions laws and the…
Blog Post: 24 May 2023
Compensation claims under the GDPR unpicking the latest EU and English case law and looking ahead
Blog Post: 15 May 2023
Interpreting a settlement licence to produce a “patent peace”
Qualifications
Professional
Admitted as solicitor, England and Wales, 2001
Solicitor-Advocate (Higher Courts Civil Proceedings)
Academic
BA Law, Fitzwilliam College, Cambridge University, 1997
MA, Law, Fitzwilliam College, Cambridge University, 2001
LPC, 1998
Pro Bono
- GROW mentor
Published Work
- Rix J (2019) “Discretion is the better part of valour”, Commercial Litigation Journal, Co. L.J. 2019, 83(Jan/Feb), 11-13
