Adam Riley

Adam Riley is a barrister practising in England and Wales as well as Offshore out of 3 Hare Court Chambers. He was called in 2018. He practises across a range of areas, including commercial disputes, international arbitration, company & insolvency, aviation, travel, and public & constitutional law. He has appeared as junior counsel in the Court of Appeal, Supreme Court, as well as in 13 appeals before the Judicial Committee of the Privy Council representing governments, businesses and individuals as clients across the Commonwealth (including from Jamaica, Trinidad and Tobago, The Bahamas, and Antigua and Barbuda). He is recognised in the Legal 500 as a Rising Star (Tier 1) in both the “Administrative Law and Human Rights” and “The English Bar (Offshore)” categories, which describes him as “thoughtful, comprehensive and analytical”. Adam is also an experienced trial lawyer in his own right, frequently handling a broad range of cases, appeals, interim applications, and other matters as sole counsel in the High Court and County Court. He was appointed to the Attorney General’s C-Panel of Junior Counsel to the Crown in 2024.

Adam regularly contributes to legal journals and has written for the Kluwer Arbitration Blog, the Jamaica Bar Association Journal, the New Law Journal, as well as the Commonwealth Lawyers Association Journal. He has also provided updates to Atkin’s Court Forms and Butterworths Civil Courts Precedents. He has a particular interest in law reform, the intersection of law and politics, and in pro bono work. Before practice, he worked at the Centre for Access to Justice, University College London, volunteered on asylum claims with an international NGO in Greece, and also interned via Amicus ALJ with the Capital Post-Conviction Project of Louisiana, in New Orleans.