Paul Mitchell KC

Practice Areas

Paul is an academically powerful lawyer, imaginative, bold, creative and firmly anchored in the reality of how human beings actually behave in their commercial dealings and in the witness box. His expertise in professional negligence work leads to his instruction on the highest value and most reputationally delicate cases across a wide range of areas of professional practice. In the commercial sphere, he is often instructed in cases where one or both of the parties is French, Italian, Ukrainian or Russian. He has unrivalled expertise in the new tort of malicious prosecution of civil proceedings, having acted in every significant reported case since it was recognised. Paul was appointed Deputy High Court Judge in February 2024 and sits in the King’s Bench Division London Circuit Commercial Court.

Career

Called 1999; Silk 2016. Hardwicke, Mansfield, Denning Scholarships from Lincoln’s Inn; Pegasus Scholar from the Inns of Court.

Professional Memberships

Professional Negligence Bar Association, Combar, Chancery Bar Association

Personal

King’s College Cambridge, BA in oriental studies (1st); School of Oriental and African Studies, (MA); King’s College, Cambridge, PhD.

Two daughters.