Serle Court Barristers Feature in The Lawyer’s Top 20 Cases for 2025

The Lawyer has published its highly anticipated ‘Top 20 cases for 2025,’ highlighting the biggest disputes of the year. We are proud to announce that five members of Serle Court were featured in two of these cases.

The members featured were Hugh Norbury KC, James Mather, James Weale, Tim Benham-Mirando and Ramyaa Veerabathran.

The full list and case information can be found here (paywalled).

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Hugh Norbury KC

Call: 1995
Silk: 2012

James Weale KC has a very busy commercial chancery practice with a focus on domestic and international commercial and trusts disputes.

He is recognised as a leading practitioner in those fields by Chambers & Partners, Legal 500, Chambers Global, Chambers High Net Worth, and Who’s Who Legal, where they describe him as a “brilliant lawyer” and a “Superstar”. He was Chambers & Partners’ Chancery Junior of the Year in 2023.

He regularly appears (both as sole and junior counsel) in the English High Court and has appeared several times in the Court of Appeal. He also has considerable experience in overseas jurisdictions (including as sole counsel), including Bermuda, the DIFC, the BVI, Cayman, Jersey, Guernsey, Gibraltar and Panama.