Justina Stewart

Practice Areas

Justina Stewart’s practice encompasses the full range of commercial litigation, with a particular focus on banking and financial services, civil fraud, fintech and digital assets, insolvency and international arbitration.

She is ranked in the key legal directories in numerous practice areas: commercial litigation/commercial dispute resolution; banking and finance; cryptoassets; financial services regulation and insolvency. She is ranked in Chambers UK Bar, Chambers Global, Legal 500 and Legal 500 Middle East.

Comments in legal directories have included “phenomenally bright”, “an absolute delight to work with”, “a hard-hitting litigator.  She is able to parachute into a dispute and turn it 180 degrees in favour of her clients” “brilliant for banking litigation”, “no matter how stressful the situation, Justina has a way of calming matters so that the focus is always on the issues at hand”, “impressive”, “strong, dynamic and commercial”, “great to use on difficult insolvency claims”, “a highly intelligent and tenacious litigator, she is also far more financially literate than most barristers”, “incredibly impressive and a force to be reckoned with” and “a fantastic communicator”, “a phenomenal addition to any team when you have claims against banks” with “outstanding legal acumen”.

Justina’s cases frequently involve multi-jurisdictional elements and matters which are notable for their complexity and novelty.

Career

Called 2010

BVC (Outstanding, first in year group)

GDL (Distinction)

LLB (First Class)

M.Phil (Economics) (Oxon)

B.Sc Econ (LSE)

Cassel Scholarship (Lincoln’s Inn)

Sunley Scholarship (Lincoln’s Inn)

Buchanan Price (Lincoln’s Inn)

Previously an international investment banker

Professional Memberships

COMBAR

Chancery Bar Association

FSLA

Lincoln’s Inn