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About
Provided by Justin Higgo KC
Practice Areas
Justin is a specialist in commercial and commercial chancery disputes, with substantial expertise in international commercial fraud litigation, jurisdiction disputes and pre-emptive remedies and extensive offshore experience (especially the Channel Islands, the BVI and in Cayman). His practice focus is pure commercial and commercial chancery disputes, with an emphasis on domestic and international commercial disputes, all aspects of commercial fraud, breach of fiduciary duties, domestic and international trusts and trust disputes, international arbitration, company and banking disputes. Recent significant cases include: Kulkarni v Gwent, Harrington & Ors v Mehta, Berkeley Square Holdings v Lancer, Trafalgar v Hadley & Ors, Glenn v Watson, PPRS Holdings v Tecar, Equity Real Estate (Bracknell) v Patel, Patra v Patra, REBTL v Ingram-Hill, Shlossberg v Elm International, Aeroflot v Berezovsky & Ors, BOSP v Arkhangelsky, Coca Cola Enterprises v Corry and EG v Mazur in the Chancery Division; Qipco v Hamad, Yuntiang v Quendon, Orrick v ASSTC, PPRS v Tecar, Orb v Ruhan, JSC BTA Bank v Ablyazov, Fiona Trust v Privalov, Spokane v CMS and Maroil v Cally Shipping in the Commercial Court; Davidson v Davidson and Barker v Winter in the KBD; Munkenbeck v The Vinyl Factory in the TCC; Re S in Guernsey, Re L Trusts in Jersey and Guernsey, Molard v Rusnano in the Guernsey CA; In the matter of the Autumn Trust in Jersey; Jen Share Trust PTC v Winston Jen in the BVI Commercial Court.
Career
Called February 1995. King's Counsel 2020.
Professional Memberships
Chancery Bar Association, COMBAR.
Chambers Review
UK Bar
Justin Higgo KC is an admired silk with a broad commercial chancery practice. He receives a steady supply of significant fraud instructions relating to diverse allegations including deceit, breach of fiduciary duty and misappropriation of funds.
Strengths
Provided by Chambers
"He is smooth and persuasive."
"Justin is frankly superb – he is very effective."
"He is collaborative and good at tackling difficult issues."
"Justin is spectacularly user-friendly and a real team player. He is smart and flexible."
"He is hard-working, bright and a great team player."
"His advocacy is really impressive. He is smooth and persuasive."
"Justin gives sound, sensible advice and gets to the nub of the issues. He is very good at seeing the wood from the trees."
"Justin is smooth and persuasive. He is brilliant and his advocacy is really impressive."
"Justin is excellent. He is very responsive and very user-friendly."
"He is smooth and persuasive."
"Justin is frankly superb – he is very effective."
"He is collaborative and good at tackling difficult issues."
"Justin is spectacularly user-friendly and a real team player. He is smart and flexible."
"He is hard-working, bright and a great team player."
"His advocacy is really impressive. He is smooth and persuasive."
"Justin gives sound, sensible advice and gets to the nub of the issues. He is very good at seeing the wood from the trees."
"Justin is smooth and persuasive. He is brilliant and his advocacy is really impressive."
"Justin is excellent. He is very responsive and very user-friendly."
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