"Stephen Jourdan KC has an extremely broad property practice dealing with commercial and residential matters, and handles property-related insolvency, partnership and professional negligence claims. He is also lauded for his deep knowledge of enfranchisement matters."Chambers and Partners UK Bar Guide 2025 (Real Estate Litigation - London)
"Stephen is a go-to person for adverse possession claims. His level of expertise and knowledge in this area is incredible."Chambers and Partners UK Bar Guide 2025 (Real Estate Litigation - London)
"Stephen has good understanding of issues, a strong ability to cross-examine and great intellect."Chambers and Partners UK Bar Guide 2025 (Real Estate Litigation - London)
"Stephen has a quiet, understated manner but is very authoritative. He is also technically brilliant and has the respect of the judges."Chambers and Partners UK Bar Guide 2025 (Real Estate Litigation - London)
"Stephen Jourdan KC is a well-known agricultural law specialist. He regularly represents family farming partnerships and their individual members. He routinely handles high-stakes landlord and tenant disputes, partnership disputes and proprietary estoppel claims."Chambers and Partners UK Bar Guide 2025 (Agriculture & Rural Affairs)
"Stephen is simply a walking brain. Watching him joust with a High Court judge on case law is truly an impressive sight."Chambers and Partners UK Bar Guide 2025 (Agriculture & Rural Affairs)
"Stephen is the go-to person for adverse possession claims. His level of expertise and knowledge in this area is unrivalled."Chambers and Partners UK Bar Guide 2025 (Agriculture & Rural Affairs)
"Stephen made a material difference to the case through his understanding of the issues, ability to cross-examine and great intellect."Chambers and Partners UK Bar Guide 2025 (Agriculture & Rural Affairs)
"A silk with an astonishing work ethic."Legal 500 UK Bar Guide 2025
"An astonishing work ethic and excellent in court." Legal 500 UK Bar Guide 2025
"Stephen Jourdan is the best; he is thorough and calm and knowledgeable."Chambers and Partners UK Bar Guide 2024 (Agriculture and Rural Affairs)
"Stephen Jourdan is brilliant at what he does and excellent to the last detail."Chambers and Partners UK Bar Guide 2024 (Agriculture and Rural Affairs)
"The best - great with clients, knowledgeable, brilliant in giving advice and cutting through problems."Chambers and Partners UK Bar Guide 2024 (Real Estate Litigation)
"Stephen is one of a handful of KCs that you turn to for complex litigation or where you want a name to send fear into an opponent. His advocacy is very smooth and measured and he has judges eating out of the palm of his hand."Chambers and Partners UK Bar Guide 2024 (Real Estate Litigation)
"His paperwork is extraordinary. He sees things that other do not and his advocacy is outstanding."Chambers and Partners UK Bar Guide 2024 (Real Estate Litigation)
'He has no weaknesses. He is universally respected and liked throughout the profession. You know with Stephen that you are always going to get the right answer.’Legal 500 2024 (Property Litigation)
‘Stephen is quite simply brilliant. He is great with clients, hugely knowledgeable, thorough and cuts through complex matters like a knife cuts through butter.’Legal 500 2024 (Agriculture)
"Stephen is the paragon of agricultural landlord and tenant work. Whenever a case demands the best in the business, Stephen is the one to go to. His skill is unparalleled."Chambers and Partners UK Guide 2023
'Stephen is simply the best. He is calm, thorough, enormously clever and brilliant with clients. He is able to cut through complicated facts, law and arguments with ease so as to focus on what matters. ’Legal 500 2023
‘An exceptional silk with unmatched analytical abilities, Stephen is exceptional. He brings a unique clarity to matters which would otherwise be complex. He is one of the most committed barristers around and exceeds expectations on every case he works on. ’Legal 500 2023
Stephen Jourdan QC has an extremely broad property practice dealing with commercial and residential matters and handles property-related insolvency, partnership and professional negligence claims. He is also lauded for his deep knowledge of enfranchisement matters. Strengths: "One of the most sensible property barristers I have worked with." "A top-flight advocate, well known and respected in the higher courts."Chambers and Partners UK Guide 2022 (Real Estate Litigation)
Stephen Jourdan QC is a well-known agricultural law specialist who receives outstanding feedback from a range of market sources. He regularly represents family farming partnerships and their individual members. Jourdan routinely handles high-stakes landlord and tenant disputes. Strengths: "He is an all-rounder. He's incredibly easy to deal with, and he cuts though jargon and explains clients' issues in an understandable format. He is unrivalled in the courtroom." "Brilliant and effective."Chambers and Partners Guide 2022 (Agriculture & Rural Affairs)
"Stephen has an incisive legal mind which can unpick a complex issue ridiculously quickly. He has both an eye for detail (and is willing to get into it) and a feel for how the court is likely to decide a technical legal point. He is ruthless in cross-examination, especially of expert witnesses."Legal 500 2022
Stephen Jourdan QC is distinguished by his broad property practice which encompasses commercial and residential matters. Who’s Who Legal UK Bar Report 2022
Well-known agricultural law specialist who receives outstanding feedback from peers. He regularly represents family farming partnerships and their individual members, and also routinely handles landlord and tenant disputes. His recent experience primarily involves acting for rural clients in the context of arbitrations. Strengths:"He is one of the most analytical barristers and fantastically technical." "What's probably most impressive is his skill in the courtroom and how good he is on his feet." "He is excellent on the proprietary estoppel side. He has very good agricultural knowledge and he can really bring a very forensic approach to the case."Chambers and Partners Guide 2021 (Agriculture & Rural Affairs)
Has an extremely wide property and agricultural law practice and also handles property-related insolvency, partnership and professional negligence claims. He is also lauded for his deep knowledge of enfranchisement matters. Strengths: "What's most impressive is his skill in the courtroom. He is a genius of the law - there is very little, if anything, he doesn’t know about when it comes to property law." "He has a very sharp intellect, is incredibly thorough and diligent and also very good to work with." "He's just brilliant on the technical side and brilliantly user-friendly and responsive."Chambers and Partners UK Guide 2021 (Real Estate Litigation)
"Nobody knows more than him in agriculture".Legal 500 2021 (Agriculture)
"A walking brain. Always full of novel and clever ideas and arguments to improve the client's position."Legal 500 2021
Has an extremely wide property and agricultural law practice and also handles property-related insolvency, partnership and professional negligence claims. He is also lauded for his deep knowledge of enfranchisement matters. Strengths: "His attention to detail is second to none, which makes him a fearsome opponent." "Has tactical nous and his advocacy is quite phenomenal." "He knows enfranchisement law back to front and is full of good technical arguments." Recent work: Acted for the Crown, as freeholder, in Whitehall Court London v Crown Estate Commissioners. He successfully resisted an appeal regarding value assumptions and the interpretation of the lease.Chambers and Partners UK Guide 2020 (Real Estate Litigation)
"An extremely nice and calm silk to work with and a very effective advocate."Legal 500 2020
Stephen has "excellent litigation instinct" says peers who note they have "great respect for Stephen" and command his impressive work on valuation issues. Who's Who Legal UK Bar 2019 Guide
"Has an extremely wide property and agricultural law practice and also handles property-related insolvency, partnership and professional negligence claims. He is also lauded for his deep knowledge of landlord and tenant matters. 'He knows everything, is very creative and has a terrifying command of the details.' 'He delivers excellent written work and is an extremely tenacious advocate.' 'His eye for detail is second to none.' 'Excellent, incisive and very user-friendly.' Recent work: Acted successfully for the claimant in a case concerning the interpretation and effect of a right to use land granted in 1855." Chambers UK Guide 2019 (Real Estate Litigation)
"Well-known agricultural law specialist who receives outstanding feedback from peers. He regularly represents family farming partnerships and their individual members, and also routinely handles landlord and tenant disputes. His recent experience primarily involves acting for rural clients in the context of arbitrations. Strengths: 'He's an advocate who garners a lot of respect from the court, and his submissions are all the more weighty as a result. He is particularly good because his knowledge goes beyond just pure property. He is also quite practical - he rolls up his sleeves and gets on with the job.' Recent work: Acted in Knightsbridge Pension Fund Trust v Downs, an agricultural holdings succession dispute which turned on a point of law as to whether the livelihood condition in Section 50(2)(a) of the Agricultural Holdings Act 1986 was satisfied." Chambers UK Guide 2019 (Agriculture & Rural Affairs)
"A massively clever senior counsel who is at the forefront of the property litigation Bar."Legal 500 2018 (Property Litigation)
"Exceptionally able and knowledgeable, approachable and user friendly."Legal 500 2018 (Agriculture)
