James Weale

Practice Areas

Chancery and commercial litigation, arbitration, trusts (offshore and onshore), probate, civil fraud, company, probate, 1975 Act claims, and professional negligence.

Recent notable cases include: LLC Eurochem North-West-2 v Societe Generale SA and Ors, IBM United Kingdom v LzLabs GmbH [2023] EWHC 2142 (TCC); Wong v Grand View Private Trust Company [2022] UKPC 47, Navigator Equities Ltd v Deripaska [2022] 1 WLR 3656 (CA); Sofer v SwissIndependent Trustees [2023] W.T.L.R. 329.

Career

Called to the Bar: 2007.

Professional Memberships

Chancery Bar Association, COMBAR.

Publications

Contributor to DIFC Courts Practice (2020).

Personal

LLB (Bristol University) (1st Class).

BCL (Lincoln College, Oxford).