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Jessica Lavelle

Jessica Lavelle

Position

Jessica is a commercial chancery barrister whose busy practice spans chambers’ core areas, with interests in civil fraud and asset tracing, commercial disputes, trusts litigation, company law, and insolvency law. She is instructed regularly in both domestic and offshore matters.

Jessica has appeared unled in the High Court and appears regularly in the County Courts as well as working as part of a larger team on complex multi-national disputes.  She has been described by instructing solicitors as “extremely bright” and “very responsive”.

Prior to beginning her pupillage, Jessica undertook a six-month secondment to Walkers (Guernsey) and spent the first six months of her practice on secondment to Mishcon de Reya, sitting within the Private Wealth Disputes team.

Jessica was listed as a  Pro Bono Champion for her work with CLIPS (Chancery Litigant in Person Scheme) throughout 2023

Career

BA, Classics (First Class), Selwyn College, Cambridge

PGCE, Institute of Education

GDL and BPTC, City University, London

Memberships

Called to the Bar of the BVI

Committe Member of the Chancery Bar Association

Combar

Court of Protection Bar Association

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