Eleanor Holland
UK Bar Guide 2025
Band 4 : Chancery: Commercial
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Band 4
About
Provided by Eleanor Holland
Practice Areas
A barrister and mediator with a broad commercial Chancery practice, Eleanor provides practical advice tailored to meeting the client’s objectives, and is particularly sought after for work involving complex legal questions. She regularly receives repeat instructions from solicitors’ firms, and works both alone and led by barristers (including silks) in and out of Chambers. Eleanor is a CEDR-accredited mediator, offering a practical and constructive approach to parties wishing to explore settlement of their dispute.
Career
Called in 2010; commenced tenancy at 4 Stone Buildings in 2011; Judicial Assistant to Lord Justice Rix in Michaelmas Term 2011.
Eleanor is a trustee of Advocate, and she has held volunteer pro bono / social responsibility, ED&I and committee roles (including for the Chancery Bar Association and the Bar Council) throughout her career. Eleanor was founding Chair of the Junior Chancery Bar.
Professional Memberships
Chancery Bar Association
COMBAR
Publications
Annotated Companies Legislation, OUP 2013 (contributor)
Sham Transactions, Miranda Stewart and Edwin Simpson, OUP 2013 (contributor)
Supreme Court Yearbook Volume 8:2016-2017 Legal Year (contributor)
Chambers Review
UK Bar
Strengths
Provided by Chambers
"Eleanor is a very strong junior barrister, who is bright and quick on her feet."
"Her research is excellent, she's very diligent and she puts forward good skeleton arguments."
"Eleanor produces very complicated documents in a short space of time, all of which are very logically presented. She is extremely bright, diplomatic when she needs to be and very easy to deal with."
"Eleanor is a very strong junior barrister, who is bright and quick on her feet."
"Her research is excellent, she's very diligent and she puts forward good skeleton arguments."
"Eleanor produces very complicated documents in a short space of time, all of which are very logically presented. She is extremely bright, diplomatic when she needs to be and very easy to deal with."