Senior Practice Manager
Practice Manager
Assistant Practice Manager
Jessica Lavelle is a commercial chancery barrister whose busy practice spans chambers’ core areas, with interests in civil fraud and asset tracing, commercial disputes, trusts litigation, company law, and insolvency law. She is instructed regularly in both domestic and offshore matters.
A Legal 500 “Rising Star”, Jessica has been described as “a pleasure to work with” and someone who “is good at focusing on the key issues and makes sure the clients know she is on their side”.
Jessica has appeared both led and unled in the High Court and appears regularly in the County Courts as well as working as part of a larger team on complex multi-national disputes.
She regularly carries out pro bono work and was a Chancery Bar Association Pro Bono Champion awardee in 2023.
Jessica has experience of aviation matters both as sole counsel and as part of a larger team, including:
Jessica regularly assists with drafting pleadings and evidence in a range of commercial matters, for example:
She also regularly appears in court in interim applications on commercial disputes and has trial experience in various commercial matters, including:
Jessica’s commercial and trusts work often involves questions of company law. Her company law experience includes:
Jessica is ranked as a “Rising Star” in the Legal 500 Insolvency Rankings 2024. She accepts instructions across a range of personal and corporate insolvency cases and represents office-holders, directors, individuals and companies. As well as appearing in court, she is often instructed to assist with the drafting of proceedings and evidence.
Her experience includes:
Ranked in the Legal 500 Caribbean guide for Offshore: Trusts, clients comment “Jessica is undoubtedly one of the best junior juniors. Intelligent and dedicated to her craft with the ability to inject a healthy dose of reality into any situation, she picks up technical points very quickly.”
Her offshore experience includes:
Trusts
Probate & Estates