Barristers

Rosalind Phelps KC

Rosalind Phelps KC

Position

Commercial silk specialising in civil and commercial litigation and arbitration including aviation, banking, civil fraud, conflicts of law and jurisdiction, financial services and professional negligence. Sits as an arbitrator.

Recent cases include: Investors in Barclays v Barclays PLC [2024] EWHC 2124 (Ch); JPMorgan International Finance Ltd v Werealize.com Ltd [2024] EWHC 1437 (Comm);  Qatar Airways Group QCSC v Airbus SAS [2022] EWHC 285 (one of the Lawyers’s top 20 cases for 2023); Federal Republic of Nigeria v JP Morgan Chase [2022] EWHC 1447 (Comm); [2019] EWCA Civ 1641; FSHC Group Holdings v Glas Trust Corp [2020] Ch 365; Ventra Investments v Bank of Scotland [2019] EWHC 2058 (Comm).

Career

Called 1998, Lincoln’s Inn. Silk 2016.

Co-author ‘The Law of Privilege’ (OUP, 3rd edition 2018).

Languages

Fluent in French, including legal French.

Memberships

COMBAR.

Education

King Henry VIII School, Coventry; Pembroke College, Oxford University (BA Hons Law with French Law, First Class; BCL, First Class).

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