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Joanne Wicks KC
Career
Joanne is a well-known and highly respected chancery silk. She has a broad commercial chancery practice with an emphasis on property litigation and related professional negligence. She is described by The Legal 500 as “the premier property silk”. Her strength is the ability to combine intellectual rigour with a good understanding of her clients’ commercial interests and a determination to find the best way to serve them.
As a Deputy High Court Judge sitting in the Business and Property Courts, Joanne deals with the full range of Chancery work. She has experience of courts and tribunals at every level, from the County Court to the Supreme Court. She also has very considerable experience of arbitrations and expert determinations, having acted in a substantial number of cases resolved by these means. She accepts appointments as an arbitrator or independent expert in her specialist practice areas and also advises non-lawyer arbitrators and independent experts. Joanne is an accredited mediator.
Memberships
Property Bar Association
Chancery Bar Association
Professional Negligence Bar Association
Women in Property
ARBRIX
Education
First Class degree in Jurisprudence and Gibbs Prize in Law, Oxford University
Bachelor of Civil Law degree, Oxford University
Kennedy and Hardwicke Scholar of Lincoln’s Inn
Lawyer Rankings
London Bar > Property litigation
(Leading Silks)Ranked: Tier 1Joanne Wicks KC – Wilberforce Chambers ‘The premier property silk, a real problem solver who can think outside the box and comes up with innovative solutions. She is calm, collected and great with clients. Her advocacy is excellent.’
With a wealth of experience at the senior level, Wilberforce Chambers acts on all forms of property litigation. Core areas of focus for the set include commercial landlord and tenant, development, mortgages and property rights concerning economy. Jonathan Seitler KC acted before the Supreme Court in On Tower v AP Wireless, a group appeal brought by numerous cell site operators involving numerous issues of the Telecommunications Code, including the interpretation of the transitional provisions between the new and old codes. Joanne Wicks KC is acting on R (Annington Property Ltd & Others) v The Secretary of State for Defence, a case concerning a proposal by the MoD to reacquire married quarters it disposed of via a sale and leaseback arrangement using conventional enfranchisement law. Tiffany Scott KC represented the claimant in Clifford v Grosvenor West End Properties, in which the inhabitant of a Mayfair mews home sought to require the Duke of Westminster to eject prostitutes and drug dealers from an adjacent block of flats.