Year of Call: 2004
“A silk in waiting. He has an unwavering ability to get to the commercial crux of a matter extremely quickly.”
“The perfect package for complex and hard-fought property litigation, Jonathan is both technically brilliant and a creative advocate.”
“He combines a sharp mind, deep knowledge, experience and seasoned advocacy with consummate client-handling skills. Very cerebral, persuasive towards judges, prompt and easy to deal with.”
Jonathan’s cases invariably involve land and property but span commercial, company, fraud, trust and insolvency law disputes and related professional negligence.
He is equally happy acting in large, complex litigation as a part of a team as he is representing an individual landowner, developer or leaseholder. He has appeared in courts and tribunals at all levels from the First-tier Tribunal to the Supreme Court. He also acts in mediations and arbitrations. A significant part of his practice is appellate work, including cases in which he did not appear below. Jonathan frequently appears against silks as sole counsel.
Much of Jonathan’s work concerns real estate developments. His practice covers the full spectrum of disputes, from commercial disputes about joint ventures; fraud and dishonest conduct; failed securities and funding issues to more niche areas of property law.
Jonathan has considerable experience of asset recovery, including urgent interim relief (freezing injunctions, proprietary injunctions and asset disclosure orders).
His trusts work encompasses co-ownership disputes and applications for orders for sale/TOLATA claims. He successfully argued for a resulting trust analysis in Chaudhary v Chaudhary [2013] EWCA Civ 758; [2013] 2 F.L.R. 1526; [2013] Fam. Law 1257 and successfully appeared in the Upper Tribunal (Fancourt J) concerning the First-tier Tribunal’s jurisdiction to determine an application by joint trustees in bankruptcy to register a restriction against a property held in joint names (Wolloff and Dante (as Joint Trustees in Bankruptcy of Alexander James Dhillon) v Patel [2019] UKUT 333 (LC)). He has acted for intervenors in a number of divorce cases, usually involving trusts and/or proprietary estoppel.
Jonathan has been ranked in Chambers & Partners and the Legal 500 for many years.
Jonathan Upton succeeds in High Court claim for Access Order | Trident House Development Ltd v Yousaf [2025] EWHC 344 (Ch)
Jonathan Upton has successfully obtained an access order under the Access to Neighbouring Land Act 1992. The developer requires access... Read More
Upper Tribunal decides that commencing proceedings without first sending a letter before action is unreasonable conduct
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