John Campbell SC

John Campbell is a highly regarded silk, specialising in large commercial trials, competition proceedings, Judicial Review and actions and injunctions for defamation and privacy, John has appeared in courts at all levels both in United Kingdom and South Africa including the Supreme Court and South African Constitutional Court as well as in arbitrations.

In the last few years, he has acted for a large European bank in Competition Tribunal proceedings arising from the alleged fixing of currency exchange rates of emerging markets in New York; for an international commodities trading company in lifting a freezing order over a consignment of cobalt from the DRC; for South African Breweries in an arbitration dispute under UNCITRAL rules arising from a contract for the delivery of its product which necessitated a close knowledge of the logistics business; and in a Judicial Review arising from the award of a tender worth approximately half a billion rands per year.

His breadth of experience equips him to act across wide ranging commercial fields from banking and contract law to civil fraud, judicial review and negligence, and in commercial injunctions.