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.

Property Bar Association

Chancery Bar Association

Professional Negligence Bar Association

Women in Property

ARBRIX

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