Elizabeth Weaver has a commercial Chancery practice, focusing mainly on contentious work in the areas of business disputes, company law and insolvency, trusts and wills and property. Elizabeth has both the technical knowledge to draw on for analysis of the problems arising in complex legal disputes (often involving several areas of law) and the experience and expertise to provide sound and commercial advice and the effective and efficient presentation of a client’s case.
Elizabeth has considerable experience of working on large scale commercial claims (both High Court litigation and LCIA and ICC arbitrations) and trust disputes, often with an international element and raising issues of foreign law and conflicts of law for example Interoil Trading SA v Watford.
Elizabeth also has a well recognised specialism in professional negligence claims involving her key areas of expertise.
Recommendations:
Chambers & Partners 2009 recommends Liz for commercial Chancery. She is also recommended in Legal 500/2008 for company law.
Academic history:
LLB, Bristol
Contributor to Tolley's Insolvency Law
Co-author of Blackstone's Guide to the Companies Act 2006 (OUP)
Professional memberships:
Chancery Bar Association
Commercial Bar Association (COMBAR)
ACTAPS
STEP
Professional Negligence Bar Association
Bar of The Eastern Caribbean Supreme Court
Member of the Professional Conduct and Complaints Committee of the Bar Council