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Advocate Chantal Barrett

+44 1481 739 372 chantal.barrett@mourant.com View profile View profile

Work Department

Litigation

Position

As Counsel in our Guernsey Litigation team, I am a highly experienced Advocate with a broad-based commercial litigation practice.

Career

A litigator with 20 years of experience, I practiced at Beachcroft (now DAC Beachcroft) as an English Solicitor and as a Guernsey Advocate with Mourant Ozannes since 2010.

I have a broad-based commercial disputes practice with a particular expertise in regulatory, trust and insurance law including Disciplinary & Regulatory proceedings for legal and financial professionals, Contentious Trust, D&O policy coverage disputes and Insurance Litigation

PROFESSIONAL QUALIFICATIONS

• • Called to the Guernsey Bar, 2010
  • Certificat d’Etudes Juridiques Francaises et Normandes, Université de Caen, 2009
  • Solicitor of the Supreme Court, England and Wales, 2001 (currently non-practising)

WORK HIGHLIGHTS

• Helmot v Simon – Privy Council appeal relating to discount rates
• Advised on high-value claim to recover unpaid commission fees relating to investment funds
• Acted in judicial review proceedings for an airline challenging a decision of the Transport Licensing Authority
• Advises and appears in Court in relation to insurance transfer schemes under Guernsey’s equivalent to Part VII of the UK’s Financial Services and Markets Act (FSMA)