Liz Jones QC named Chancery Lawyer of the Year at Best Lawyer Awards 2022

Serle Court is delighted to announce that Elizabeth Jones QC has been selected for inclusion in the 10th Edition of The Best Lawyers in the United Kingdom for her work in Chancery. Due to extremely high feedback, Elizabeth has also been recognised as the 2022 "Lawyer of the Year" award recipient for her work in Chancery in London. Only a single lawyer in each practice area is honoured with a "Lawyer of the Year" award.

Elizabeth Jones QC became Serle Court's Head of Chambers in April 2021 and is acknowledged by Chambers and Partners "superlative and top of the tree" and a "renowned trial advocate". For more information regarding Liz's practice, please click here.

8 other members of chambers are recognised in the Best Lawyers directory. Areas of expertise include Chancery, Commercial Litigation, Civil Fraud, Charities, Insolvency, Partnership, Financial Services, and Public International Law.

Elizabeth Jones QC – Chancery
Philip Jones QC – Insolvency and Restructuring Law
John Machell QC – Partnership
Justin Higgo QC – Civil Fraud
Richard Wilson QC – Chancery | Trusts and Personal Tax Law
Will Henderson – Charities Law
David Drake – Civil Fraud / Telecommunications Law
Andrew Bruce – Real Estate law

Please click here to see the listings.

Related Barristers

Elizabeth Jones KC

Call: 1984
Silk: 2000

Philip Jones KC

Call: 1985
Silk: 2006

John Machell KC has a broad commercial chancery practice, with particular experience in large-scale litigation involving trusts, fiduciary/director duties, and fraud, particularly with an international dimension.

John is regarded as one of the leading partnership and LLP silks and has experience of a wide range of both contentious and non-contentious matters across the whole range of business sectors. A large part of his work involves issues arising from the use of partnerships and LLPs in hedge fund and private equity structures; in international commercial group structures; and as part of wealth planning strategies.

A substantial part of John’s practice is offshore, and he has appeared in the courts of Grand Cayman, the British Virgin Islands, and Bermuda on several occasions in recent years.

John Machell KC

Call: 1993
Silk: 2012

Described by The Legal 500 as “one of the stars of his generation”, Richard Wilson KC specialises in litigation, drafting and advisory work across traditional and commercial chancery. His practice focuses on trusts and probate, both contentious and non-contentious, related company and partnership law, claims under the Inheritance (Provision for Family and Dependants) Act 1975, tax, professional negligence and civil fraud.

Richard has acted in many of the most significant and high-value cases in these areas in recent years. He is currently involved in several disputes concerning the estates of ultra-high-net-worth individuals (UHNWIs) in England and overseas.

His practice frequently involves offshore matters and private international law. He has appeared before the Privy Council, the Supreme Court and Court of Appeal of Gibraltar, the Supreme Court and Court of Appeal of Bermuda, the Supreme Court of The Bahamas, the Grand Court of the Cayman Islands, and the Eastern Caribbean Supreme Court and Court of Appeal. He has also provided expert evidence on English law before the Royal Courts of Jersey and Guernsey.

Richard regularly acts in disputes across all the principal offshore jurisdictions. A significant proportion of his practice involves international clients, particularly those based in Asia, including Hong Kong.