Jessica Sutherland

Practice Areas

Described as “a very impressive”, Jessica has a wide-ranging commercial practice including shipping, shipbuilding, international trade, insurance & reinsurance, professional negligence & regulatory work (auditors). She is regularly instructed in high-value disputes often with jurisdictional issues. She is consistently listed as a leading junior in the directories and has been featured by ‘The Lawyer’ as ‘Barrister of the Week’ due to the nature of her high-profile case load.

Recent work includes:

The Court of Appeal decision in National Iranian Oil Co v Crescent Petroleum Co International Ltd [2022] EWHC 2641 (Comm) (Butcher J) and [2023] EWCA Civ 826 (CA). The case concerned the interplay between s.67 & s.73 of the Arbitration Act 1996, including the scope of s.67(4) (that only the first instance judge can grant permission to appeal from a “decision under” s.67); a SIAC arbitration commodities dispute worth US$14 million (successful on all issues); a LCIA Arbitration (share purchase dispute) worth US$100million; acting as sole counsel in three high-value superyacht disputes.