Rachel Toney

Practice Areas

Shipping & Commodities

Commercial

Administrative & Public

Employment

Career

Globally ranked “exceptional” leading senior junior (Shipping & Commodities and Administrative & Public law).

Wealth of litigation, arbitration and mediation expertise in a wide range of admiralty, shipping and commercial matters with particular emphasis on shipbuilding and superyachts, having long been instructed in many of the high-value new-build disputes involving the world’s largest and best known superyachts. A uniquely qualified market leader in the field of employment and personal injury related shipping matters.

As Special Advocate, regularly instructed in nationally and internationally high profile, sensitive, national security and human rights cases involving the FCDO, the NCA, the Home Office and the Security Services. Work includes multi-party private law claims and Judicial Reviews in the Appellate Courts and deprivation/deportation/exclusion appeals before the Special Immigration Appeals Tribunal. Rachel has appeared in many of the leading cases in this field.

Shortlisted for Legal 500 UK Bar Shipping Junior of the Year 2022

Shortlisted for Chambers & Partners UK Bar Human Rights & Public Junior of the Year 2024

Professional Memberships

Commercial Bar Association (COMBAR); London Shipping Law Centre; British Maritime Law Association.

Personal

Oxford University (1997 BA Law with Legal Studies in Europe, 1st); Konstanz University, Germany (1999 LLM Comparative Law); Called 1998, Lincoln’s Inn; Hardwicke Scholar; Wolfson Scholar; junior counsel to the Crown C Panel 2004; junior counsel to the Crown Panel B 2008; appointed to Attorney General’s Panel of Special Advocates, 2010.

Fluent German, working knowledge of French.