Year of Call: 2001
“Second to none: she combines high-level strategic advice and lateral thinking with an attention to detail and client service that has made her our go-to counsel this year.”
Jennifer Haywood has a broad commercial chancery practice encompassing litigation, drafting and advisory work across a wide range of traditional and commercial chancery, with a strong emphasis on breach of fiduciary duty, company, partnership, (both contentious and non-contentious) trusts and probate and fraud.
Jennifer is particularly well regarded for her commercial outlook and client interaction. She is praised by The Legal 500 as being “exceptionally user-friendly, easy work with and a great team player” and Chambers and Partners says “she attracts particular praise for her excellent, candid and common sense-based client service.” She is ranked in Tier 1 for Partnership work.
A CEDR accredited mediator, Jennifer has conducted more than 30 mediations, mostly in the areas of contested trusts and probate and Inheritance (Provision for Family and Dependents) Act 1975 and partnership/LLP. Jennifer also acts as an arbitrator and is a fellow of the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators.
Jennifer has been called to the BVI Bar and is a member of the BVI International Arbitration Centre Panel.
Christ’s College, Cambridge - MA (Natural Sciences), MB BCh
City University - Postgraduate Diploma in Law (CPE)
Megarry Scholarship, Lincoln’s Inn
Chancery Bar Association
Commercial Bar Association
Association of Partnership Practitioners
ACTAPS (associate member)
BVI International Arbitration Centre Panel
Dr Jennifer Margaret Haywood
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