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About
Provided by James Weale
Practice Areas
Chancery and commercial litigation, arbitration, trusts (offshore and onshore), probate, civil fraud, company, probate, 1975 Act claims, and professional negligence.
Recent notable cases include: LLC Eurochem North-West-2 v Societe Generale SA and Ors [2024] I.L.Pr. 30; IBM United Kingdom v LzLabs GmbH [2023] EWHC 2142 (TCC); Wong v Grand View Private Trust Company [2022] UKPC 47, Navigator Equities Ltd v Deripaska [2024] BCC 526; Sofer v SwissIndependent Trustees [2023] W.T.L.R. 329.
Career
Called to the Bar: 2007.
Professional Memberships
Chancery Bar Association, COMBAR.
Publications
Contributor to DIFC Courts Practice (2020).
Personal
LLB (Bristol University) (1st Class).
BCL (Lincoln College, Oxford).
Chambers Review
UK Bar
James Weale is a highly sought after barrister for matters involving the cross over between family and chancery law. He frequently offers advice on matrimonial finance cases that involve complex trusts and company issues.
James Weale is an experienced junior who acts in major trusts disputes both in the domestic courts and in multiple offshore jurisdictions. He further handles significant commercial disputes.
James Weale focuses his practice on contentious matters and is frequently acting in the High Courts. He is also experienced in cross-border matters.
Strengths
Provided by Chambers
"He is someone you can always rely on; I do not know any barrister as responsive as him. In court he is completely unflappable, and out of it he works incredibly hard and is such a nice person."
"James is an exceptional junior who is a pleasure to work with. He's extremely personable, always on hand, bright and hard-working."
"James is incredibly organised, very bright, and very hard-working. He's all over the detail and incredibly sought after."
"James' oral advocacy combines outstanding analytical skills, in-depth knowledge of the facts and the law, forensic cross-examination skills and an intuitive understanding of what matters."
"James is very responsive, smart, sensible and a pleasure to work with. He is also very good on his feet."
"James has extraordinary experience for his years. He works incredibly hard, is completely unflappable and is someone you can always rely on."
"Very sensible and can be trusted to run good arguments."
"Very sensible and can be relied upon to run good arguments."
"He stands shoulder to shoulder with the solicitor and is really good with the clientfrom an emotional intelligence perspective."
"He is someone you can always rely on; I do not know any barrister as responsive as him. In court he is completely unflappable, and out of it he works incredibly hard and is such a nice person."
"James is an exceptional junior who is a pleasure to work with. He's extremely personable, always on hand, bright and hard-working."
"James is incredibly organised, very bright, and very hard-working. He's all over the detail and incredibly sought after."
"James' oral advocacy combines outstanding analytical skills, in-depth knowledge of the facts and the law, forensic cross-examination skills and an intuitive understanding of what matters."
"James is very responsive, smart, sensible and a pleasure to work with. He is also very good on his feet."
"James has extraordinary experience for his years. He works incredibly hard, is completely unflappable and is someone you can always rely on."
"Very sensible and can be trusted to run good arguments."
"Very sensible and can be relied upon to run good arguments."
"He stands shoulder to shoulder with the solicitor and is really good with the clientfrom an emotional intelligence perspective."
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