Jamie Susskind

Jamie is a trusted commercial litigator, known for his client-friendly style, clear advice, and powerful advocacy. He is particularly sought after for his experience in business protection and employee competition cases, as well as cases involving fraud and conspiracy. Many of Jamie’s cases have a cross-border component or involve multiple jurisdictions.

The nature of Jamie’s practice is that clients regularly instruct him in urgent applications for interim relief and heavy multi-week trials.

Jamie has appeared in most of the leading “team move” cases in recent years, including Dare International Ltd v Soliman, Guy Carpenter and Company Ltd v Howden, JLT Specialty Ltd & ors v Gordon & ors, Alesco Risk Management Services Limited & ors v Bishopsgate Insurance Brokers Limited & ors, and Guy Carpenter & Company Ltd v Willis Re (UK) Ltd.

Jamie is particularly sought out by technology clients. He also brings experience of disputes in sport, entertainment and media, financial services, biotech, pharmaceuticals, mining, oil, retail, and hospitality.

Jamie is a world-leading authority in the law and regulation of digital technology.

He is regularly instructed in cases involving age assurance, deepfakes, algorithmic discrimination, and all aspects of media, data, and privacy law, including the Online Safety Act 2023.

He recently appeared for the ICO in ICO v Clearview AI [2025] UKUT 319 (AAC) (heading to the Court of Appeal) and advised Ofcom in its high-profile investigation of an online suicide forum.

Jamie is the author of two books: Future Politics: Living Together in a World Transformed by Tech (Oxford University Press, 2018) and The Digital Republic: On Freedom and Democracy in the 21^st Century (Bloomsbury, 2022). Future Politics received the Estoril Global Issues Distinguished Book Prize for 2019, and was an LSE, Prospect, and Evening Standard book of the year. He has held fellowships at institutes in Harvard and Cambridge Universities, as well as the Berggruen Institute in California. Jamie’s work has been cited by two justices of the UK Supreme Court, and widely reviewed in academic and trade publications.

Jamie regularly lectures on matters relating to tech and the law. Recent speaking engagements have included Harvard Law School, Stanford Law School, Princeton University, the LSE, Cambridge University, the British Academy, the Institute for Government, the Law Society, Google, and Microsoft. In 2022, Jamie was invited to present the Leverhulme Lecture on “The End of Public and Private: How New Technologies Erase Old Boundaries”.

Jamie’s employment practice has two aspects.

The first is his High Court practice (see “Commercial Litigation” above) in cases typically relating to confidential information and trade secrets, restrictive covenants, and breaches of contractual and fiduciary duties. Jamie appears regularly in the various divisions of the High Court, and is highly experienced in seeking and resisting urgent applications for interim relief, including imaging orders, prohibitory and mandatory injunctions, springboard relief, confidentiality injunctions, and orders for delivery up/destruction/inspection.

The second aspect is in the Employment Tribunal and EAT, where Jamie tends to act in heavy discrimination and whistleblowing cases of the highest sensitivity and importance. Jamie is usually instructed where there are significant reputational, regulatory, and financial consequences at stake. He is known for the quality of his cross-examination and submissions.

Jamie welcomes pro bono instructions from claimants who are otherwise unable to afford legal representation.

Jamie has a particular interest in Partnership and LLP disputes, where his crossover experience as a High Court commercial and employment litigator (above) serves him as a versatile advocate and advisor.