Barristers

Ruth Jordan

Ruth Jordan

Serle Court, London

Position

Ruth is involved in litigation and advisory work domestically and offshore in commercial, trusts and property matters. She has expertise and wide experience across the areas of trusts, tax litigation, company disputes, charities, insolvency and public law and often where these areas intersect. She appears frequently on these matters (led and unled) in the High Court, Tax Tribunals, Court of Appeal and Privy Council. Ruth has a strong offshore practice and in addition to her commercial chancery practice has been heavily involved in a long-running series of judicial review, contempt and constitutional proceedings in The Bahamas.

Ruth’s government work is predominantly in the areas of tax and trusts: she appeared for HMRC in the landmark Supreme Court appeals in Pitt v Holt and Futter v Futter; in a series of matters on appeal to the Court of Appeal on the application of transfer pricing rules to shareholder transactions and the meaning of ‘loss’ for corporation tax purposes; and, currently, on a series of tax appeals relating to the validity of remuneration trusts.

Career

Qualified 2001, Inner Temple. Seconded to the FSA (splits investigation) 2003-04. Junior counsel to DTI for directors’ disqualification directions hearings 2003; Junior counsel to the Crown (C panel 2007). Admitted ad hoc Bar of Turks and Caicos Islands 2012.

Languages

French, Irish.

Memberships

Chancery Bar Association; COMBAR.

Education

Ballyhaunis Community School, Ireland; Trinity College, Dublin (1994 BA First Class); Christ’s College, Cambridge (1995 MPhil; 1999 PhD); City University (2000 PgD law).

Mentions

The English Bar Offshore

Commercial disputes

Leading junior2
Ruth Jordan – Serle Court ‘Ruth is responsive and extremely thorough in order to get to the bottom of a dispute.’
London Bar

Insolvency

Leading junior3
Ruth Jordan – Serle Court ‘Ruth is incisive and can assimilate a large amount of information quickly and efficiently. She is good with clients and has a quite confidence about her that they appreciate.’
The English Bar Offshore

Other expertise

Leading junior1
Ruth Jordan – Serle Court ‘Ruth takes a commercial approach and is easy to work with. She is straightforward, clear and concise in her advice, and she is always very punctual in her delivery.’