Sarah-Jane Hurrion
Call 2000 (Gray’s Inn)
Qualifications Oxford University, MA; Inns of Court School of Law, Bar Vocational Course
Professional Memberships Member of the Western Chancery & Commercial Bar Association, Member of the Western Circuit, Financial Services Lawyers Association
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Areas of Practice
Sarah-Jane Hurrion was called to the Bar in 2000. She commenced practice at Chambers in Bristol before moving to the Cayman Islands in July 2006 to specialise in international commercial and insolvency law as an in-house barrister at Walkers. Whilst offshore, she was involved in a wide variety of substantial commercial cases including a 50 million dollar insurance claim against Lloyd’s of London and also acted for various multinational corporations and high-profile distressed hedge funds following the sub-prime mortgage crises. She now returns to the Bar and joined St John’s Chambers on 2 February 2009. She specialises in commercial litigation with an emphasis on banking, insolvency and company disputes.
Commercial disputes
- Director and shareholder disputes
- Directors’ duties and liabilities
- Minority rights
- Partnerships, joint ventures and quasi-partnerships
- Contractual disputes including building contracts
- Commercial agency
- Insurance and reinsurance
- Sale and supply of goods and services
- Restraint of trade
- Franchise agreements
Insolvency
- Voluntary and involuntary corporate insolvency
- Corporate restructuring
- Administration
- Receiverships
- Personal insolvency
Banking
- Securities
- Mortgages
- Cheques and bills of exchange
- Guarantees
- Commercial and consumer credit and debt recovery
Civil Fraud and enforcement of foreign judgments
- Worldwide freezing injunctions and search orders
- Tracing and recovery of assets
- Enforcement of foreign judgments
Trusts, Probate and Inheritance
- Administration of estates and trusts
- Contentious probate
- Co-ownership and trusts of land
- Claims under Trusts of Land & Appointment of Trustees Act 1996
- Claims under the Inheritance (Provision for Family and Dependants) Act 1975
- Validity of wills
- Construction of wills
Direct Access
Sarah is qualified to undertake Direct Access work in appropriate cases, for further information, please visit our Direct Access page.
