Senior Practice Manager
Practice Manager
Assistant Practice Manager
Heather is an experienced advocate with a rich and varied commercial chancery practice. Her core areas of practice are aviation disputes, commercial litigation, including insolvency, civil fraud, company and private wealth litigation. She appears regularly in the High Court as sole counsel.
Heather is recommended by the Legal 500 as “very diligent and thorough“ and “excellent at making sense of a morass of difficult material“. She has been praised as “unflappable“, and “straight to the point, very persuasive and quick on her feet“. She has been particularly recommended for her ability to cut “through all the noise to identify the key issues and decisions which need to be taken” and her focus on getting “a good result for clients”.
Heather deals with a wide range of disputes concerning art, cultural property, and luxury assets, in both commercial and private wealth litigation. Having experience of several disputes involving international trust structures, she is well placed to advise on issues relating to the ownership, investment and control of these assets, particularly when they are held overseas.
Her experience includes:
Heather is an experienced aviation lawyer. Her practice includes high profile and high value cases involving travel agents, aircraft leasing and financing and aviation insolvency. She regularly appears in the High Court on aviation matters and has experience in disputes about sums due under leases, storage contracts and aircraft crew management software.
Chambers & Partners and Legal 500 recommend Heather as a leading junior in aviation: clients comment “Heather is a well-trusted and calm presence in tricky and complex litigation. Her ability to rise above the noise and provide timely, commercial, strategic advice is incredibly valuable.”
Her recent work includes:
Heather is regularly instructed in cases involving lost assets and fraud. She acts for individuals, companies and insolvency practitioners.
Her work includes:
Heather acts on a broad range of commercial litigation, with experience which includes disputes arising from factoring agreements, guarantees and agency arrangements, claims under shareholder agreements and applications for administration. She regularly advises on difficult technical disputes that arise at short notice.
Her experience includes:
Heather’s company practice involves shareholders’ agreements, breaches of directors’ duties, as well as questions about partnerships, limited liability partnerships and joint venture matters. She was previously an editor of the Companies’ edition of Atkin’s Court Forms.
Her company law experience includes:
Heather is regularly instructed on bankruptcy and corporate insolvency. She has also acted in petitions presented against partnerships. Further, she has also been involved in a number of applications to annul bankruptcies as well as extend administrations and to rectify the Companies’ Register outside the scope of the Companies Act 2006.
Her insolvency experience includes:
Heather is an experienced private wealth lawyer and is recommended in the Legal 500 for ‘Private wealth and probate’.
As sole counsel, she has advised on both the law and tactics arising in a question of contested domicile of the deceased in a cross-border probate dispute, as well as dealing with the rectification of deeds, post death variations and actions against Personal Representatives. She has also advised on questions of undue influence and questions of construction.
In led matters, she has been involved in offshore trust disputes regarding mismanagement of trust funds, Beddoes applications, as well as the administration of a complex estate with a homemade will. She also has experience of questions involving mutual and mirror wills.
Her traditional chancery practice extends to work in the Court of Protection, and her insolvency experience lends well to dealing with insolvent estates and the death of bankrupts.
Trusts
Probate
Heather’s recent work includes
Court of Protection
Heather also advises as the consequences of lack of capacity in general civil litigation, including
Disputes over property
Aviation
Chambers & Partners
‘Heather is a well-trusted and calm presence in tricky and complex litigation. Her ability to rise above the noise and provide timely, commercial, strategic advice is incredibly valuable.’ (2025)
‘Heather is incredibly astute and provides advice in a very commercially aware and client friendly way.’ ‘Heather is bright and has a deep knowledge of her subject area which she can apply adeptly to the client’s issue.’ ‘Heather is a tenacious and quick-thinking advocate.’ (2023)
Legal 500
‘Heather is extraordinarily bright and readily digests reams of technical information to get to the nub of the issue. Heather is a great advocate and litigator, has a fantastic strategic mind and is very client friendly.’ (2025)
‘Heather is a creative thinker and problem solver and is unflappable, even in the most difficult of situations. As an advocate, Heather is straight to the point, very persuasive and quick on her feet.’(2023)
‘Heather is very diligent and thorough and takes every point available to her client.’ (2022)
Private Client: Trusts and Probate
Legal 500
Ranked as a leading junior. (2025)
‘Heather is excellent at making sense of a morass of difficult material. She is really good at cutting through all the noise to identify the key issues and decisions which need to be taken.’(2023)
‘She is very focused on getting a good result for clients and not afraid to take novel points. Good at unpicking difficult issues.’ (2022)
It’s the wrong defendant and limitation has expired—a solution (Office Properties PL Ltd (in liquidation) v Adcamp LLP). LexisNexis (March 2025).
