Jack Spence
Biography
Jack Spence has a wide range of experience from shipbuilding and shipping disputes to complex onshore construction disputes and other commercial disputes across a wide range of industries. He has acted for hotel operators, EPC contractors and employers, shipowners, shipyards, rig operators, and oil subcontractors both in respect of disputes and the drafting of agreements.
Jack has extensive experience across the entire life cycles of disputes, both in extremely large and technically complex international arbitrations (including under LMAA, ICC and LCIA rules) and in the English courts, involving issues including delay and cost overruns, allegations of fraud and misrepresentation. As well as working with counsel, Jack also acts directly as an advocate - both in arbitral and court proceedings.
Jack regularly writes for various industry publications, including Maritime Risk International, Ship Management International, Nuclear Future and the Banking Law Journal, and is a co-author of the Haynes Boone Law of Shipbuilding Contract Updates.
Prior to joining Haynes Boone, Jack spent 18 months working in the legal technology industry, gaining an in-depth knowledge of the sector. He brings with him both the technical awareness and lateral thinking developed in this space to his work within the firm .
- Society of Construction Law
- "The UK Courts and Tribunals Judiciary Issues Guidance to Judicial Office Holders on Use of Artificial Intelligence," co-author, Haynes Boone, January 3, 2024.
- "Law of Shipbuilding Contracts Update 2022," co-author, Haynes Boone brochure, January 5, 2023.
Education
LPC LLM, University of Law, 2021
B.A. (Hons), Jurisprudence, Oxford University, 2019
Admissions
England and Wales
“Seething on a jet plane” – Conditions precedent and time of the essence in commercial contracts
September 30, 2024
The sky isn’t the limit – recent judicial consideration of limitation clauses
September 27, 2024