Wilberforce Chambers
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Joanne Wicks KC
- Phone0207 306 0102
- Email[email protected]
- Profilewww.wilberforce.co.uk
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