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Dionne Gilbert

01534 601741 dionne.gilbert@collascrill.com View profile

Work Department

International Private Client and Trust

Position

Dionne is a Group Partner. She is a highly skilled litigator with 20 years’ experience offering an impressive range of private client expertise to the firm’s UHNW client base.

Her work focuses on:

• complex and cross border family matters, advising and representing clients in high value divorce and financial remedy proceedings involving on and offshore assets; child law matters including complex relocation cases and residency matters;
• negotiating pre-nuptial and post-nuptial agreements on behalf of clients wishing to protect pre-marital assets, and advising on the protection of family wealth;
• civil disputes, including contractual disputes, professional negligence and personal injury as well as Landlord and Tenant issues. Dionne was involved in the leading case in Jersey on establishing the prescription period for Voisinage, a customary law doctrine;
• contentious probate matters;
• corporate disputes, including asset tracing and enforcement of foreign judgments;
• criminal litigation, having appeared in a large number of high profile cases, including the first ever prosecution for money laundering in Jersey which went to the Privy Council for determination;
• cases involving capacity issues including court appointments of Case Delegate (acting to manage the financial affairs of an individual lacking capacity – broadly speaking, the Jersey equivalent to Guardianships) in two particularly complex cases and cases involving the appointment of Tuteur to deal with a minor’s property.

Career

Called to the English Bar 1996; trained Mourant du Feu & Jeune and Crill Canavan; called to Jersey Bar 2000; partner Collas Crill (formerly Crill Canavan) 2003.

Memberships

Law Society of Jersey; Jersey Family Law Association.

Education

University of Buckingham (LLB Hons).