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
Publications: 17 March 2023
States have unlimited capacity: Law Debenture v Ukraine
Foreign states formally recognised by the UK government have unlimited capacity, the UK Supreme Court has confirmed, in a significant decision in long running litigation between a trustee for…
Blog Post: 23 February 2023
New UKJT legal statement on digital securities under English law
Blog Post: 14 October 2022
Österreichische Post AG: Another nail in the coffin of class actions under the GDPR?
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
