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Chancery: Traditional - London (Bar)
Individual Editorial
Strengths
Clare is an academically brilliant lawyer and excellent on her feet. She does a really good job bridging private wealth and corporate matters.
Clare is absolutely fantastic. She is tireless in her dedication to a case and she is a great communicator. A huge amount of work and energy goes into every aspect of her advocacy.
Clare Stanley knows how to get the judge on her side. She is very good at putting her case across with the right balance of assertion and empathy.
Clare Stanley is a silk at the top of her game. She is highly technically skilled and a great advocate.
Offshore - All Circuits
Individual Editorial
Clare Stanley KC is noted for her commercial and company law practice, encompassing the likes of insolvency and fraud matters. She has further expertise in handling trust dispute cases. She is well versed in the intricacies of acting in a number of offshore jurisdictions, frequently the Cayman Islands.
Strengths
Clare is very good at taking a strategic approach to her advocacy.
She knows the offshore market inside out, knows the judges and is a ferocious cross-examiner.
Clare is technically brilliant. She is able to see her way through a myriad of issues very easily.
Clare is extremely engaging and ready to cut to the essence of what's important in client calls.
Trusts - London (Bar)
Individual Editorial
Clare Stanley KC boasts a strong reputation for handling matters including trusts and probate, commercial litigation and professional negligence cases. She is experienced in contentious trusts litigation between beneficiaries and trustees, international trusts litigation and trust arbitration.
Strengths
Clare is technically brilliant and able to see her way through a myriad of issues very easily. A pleasure to work with, she is unflappable and exceptional when before the court.
Clare is great to work with and is a silk at the top of her game. She's highly technically skilled and a great advocate.
A barrister with a phenomenal brain, she really thinks things through and explains things to clients in a way that they can understand.
Clare is a very prepared and forceful advocate, who's fun, hardworking and incredibly bright. What sets her apart is how calm she stays throughout.
Clare has got a great reputation, is robust in her views and is willing to take a position. She doesn't sit on the fence and that comes from experience.
Chancery: Commercial - London (Bar)
Strengths
Clare knows the offshore market inside out and is a ferocious cross-examiner. She has a wonderful breadth of experience.
Clare is an amazing advocate; judges love her. I go to her when I want to instruct a silk that knows Cayman law backwards and is known to the judges.
Clare is very thorough, and clients really like her.
Clare is able to package up complex ideas and present them in a way that is easily understandable for both lawyers and lay clients.
Professional Negligence - London (Bar)
Individual Editorial
Clare Stanley KC represents a broad range of professionals in high-value negligence claims, including legal, financial, accountancy and insolvency practitioners. She is often involved in cases featuring highly complex and technical elements, especially in relation to trust law and fraud. She is regularly instructed to act on behalf of high-profile law firms and additionally represents claimants against lawyers.
Strengths
Clare Stanley KC is an absolute superstar on cross-examinations in difficult circumstances. She gets to grips with a huge amount of information and personalities quickly.
Clare is exactly what you want from a silk in spades: she's a fantastic strategist who is able to stand back from the complexity and plot a course through.
Clare Stanley KC is good at the early stages and rolls with the punches.
Restructuring/Insolvency - London (Bar)
Individual Editorial
Clare Stanley KC is noted for her broad expertise covering trusts, company, fraud and insolvency. Stanley is often instructed on high-value, offshore insolvency matters across the Cayman Islands, Jersey and Guernsey, with a particular focus on proceedings involving complex offshore structures and asset tracing.
Strengths
She is extremely engaging and is ready to cut to the essence of what's important in client calls.
A ferocious cross-examiner with a wonderful overlap of experience.