Gregory Percy Jones KC (born in 1968), is a British lawyer, who has served as an Alderman of the City of London since 2017.

Career

Jones was selected to tour the US in 1989 as part of the British National Debate Team organized by the English Speaking Union. He was a stagiaire at the European Commission in 1990. He took his Bar finals at the Inns of Court School of Law whilst a resident at the London House for Overseas Graduates (now called Goodenough College). Jones was called to the bar at Lincoln's Inn in 1991, taking silk in 2011. A Lincoln's Inn Hardwicke Scholar and Thomas More Bursar,^[1] he was also the first Jean Pierre Warner Scholar to the European Court of Justice (1995). Jones is a practicing barrister at the independent bar, a member of Francis Taylor Building at the Temple, London, and an associate tenant at KBW Chambers in Leeds.^[2] Described in 2017 by Chambers and Partners as "the thinking man's QC" and as "not just the meat-and-two-veg planning silk, he can deal very comfortably with European issues and complexity across the board",^[3]

A Fellow of the Centre of European Law at King's College London, and Chancellor of the Diocese of Manchester and Deputy Chancellor of the Diocese of Truro. Jones was a member of the governing House Council of St. Stephen's House, Oxford between 2011-2020.^[4]

A Bencher of Lincoln's Inn since 2019^[5]Jones has also served as a Bencher of Inner Temple from 2020.^[6]

Jones served as a Common Councilman of the City of London for the Ward of Farringdon Without from 21 March 2013 until his election as Alderman for the same ward on 8 February 2017.^[7] He is also a Liveryman of the Worshipful Company of Leathersellers.^[8]

Jones served for five years as a Governor of Colfe's School and then for seven years as Governor of the Leathersellers' Federation of Schools (three state schools in Lewisham). ^[9] He is trustee of the Prendergast Trust and President of the Sir John Staples Society^[10] which promotes cultural activities for the Leathersellers' Federation Schools. In 2018, Jones was also appointed a Governor of Goodenough College.^[11]

In 2015, Jones was appointed by the Irish government to chair an independent expert organizational review of An Bord Pleanála, the independent, statutory, quasi-judicial body responsible for strategic infrastructure and various environmental permitting decisions and all appeals from planning decisions made by local planning authorities in Ireland; the report was published in February 2016 and made 101 recommendations.^[12] He is a Director of Eye Solar Ltd, a renewables energy company.^[13]

Family

Jones is married to Rosali Margaretha Pretorius, a qualified music teacher and solicitor. She is a senior partner in the financial markets practice of Simmons & Simmons.^[14]

Publications

Jones is the co-author of several leading legal texts including:

• "The SEA Directive - A Plan for Success?" co-edited Jones and Scotford (Hart, 2017);
• "The Habitats Directive - A Developer's Obstacle Course?" edited by Jones (Hart, 2012);
• "Statutory Nuisance Law and Practice" (4th. Ed.) by McCracken, Jones, and Pereira (Bloomsbury, 2019);
• "Environmental Law in Property Transactions" (4th. Ed.) by Waite, Jones and Fogelmann (Bloomsbury, 2016).

See also

• City of London Corporation
• Farringdon Without

References