Charles Sorensen

Charles practises as both an English Barrister and Jersey Advocate. His practice covers a broad range of commercial and chancery work with a focus on contentious trusts, civil fraud, insolvency and contractual disputes.

He has particular expertise in cross border disputes involving offshore structures and has acted  in cases involving Jersey, Guernsey, Cyprus, Isle of Man, Switzerland, BVI, Cayman, Bahamas, Turks & Caicos, Singapore, Hong Kong, Dubai, Brazil, China, India, Japan and the United States.

Charles is among a small number of London based practitioners who are dual qualified in England and Jersey and appear in the courts of both jurisdictions. Before joining chambers he practised with a leading offshore firm and has extensive experience appearing before the Jersey courts, both as sole counsel and led by senior members of the Jersey Bar. In May 2023 he was appointed to the Attorney General’s panel of Independent Monitors for the purpose of The Criminal Justice (Deferred Prosecution Agreements) Law 2023.

The Legal 500 has ranked Charles as a Next Generation Lawyer in each of the last six editions. He has published extensively on offshore dispute resolution, spoken on a wide range of subjects at international legal conferences and taught English contract law on the LLB course at the Jersey Institute of Law.

Advocate of the Royal Court of Jersey LLM (Distinction) City Law School Bar Professional Training Course (Very Competent) City Law School MPhil (High Pass) St Edmund’s College Cambridge CPE/Graduate Diploma in Law (Commendation) Northumbria University Law School BA (Hons) History (2:1) University of Newcastle upon Tyne