Ruth Jordan

Commercial chancery litigation domestically and offshore across trusts, tax, civil fraud, commercial disputes/arbitration, charities, probate, insolvency and public law, often where these intersect. Instructed on these matters in the Commercial Court, Chancery

Division, Tax Tribunals, Court of Appeal and Privy Council and in various offshore jurisdictions.

Junior counsel in large-scale, multi-jurisdictional commercial / chancery litigation. Currently instructed in the PIFSS and Bourlakova litigation and in an UNCITRAL arbitration between a Caribbean Government and the owner of a special economic zone. Ruth undertakes UK government work in the areas of tax and trusts and advises on judicial review claims and other public, constitutional and administrative law matters offshore.

Cases:

PIFSS v Al-Rajaan [2025] EWHC 1357 (Comm); CIA Insurance Services v HMRC [2022] UKFTT 144 (TC); Ngumi v Attorney General of The Bahamas [2023] UKPC 12; RDA v Prime Minister of The Bahamas [2023] UKPC 2; Waterkeeper Bahamas v Bahamas Petroleum Co Plc (2021); Union Castle Mail Steamship v HMRC [2020] EWCA Civ 547; Central Bank of Ecuador v Conticorp SA [2015] UKPC 11; Metaxides v Swart [2015] UKPC 32; Bimini Blue Coalition v The Prime Minister of The Bahamas [2014] UKPC 23; Oceania Heights v Willard Clarke Enterprises [2013] UKPC 3; Pitt v Holt, Futter v Futter [2011] EWCA Civ 197; Ardagh Group SA v Pillar Property Group [2013] EWCA Civ 900

Called 2001. Attorney General’s Panel 2007. Called ad hoc Bahamas and TCI.

Chancery Bar Association, COMBAR.