Mr Charles Sorensen > Chambers of Howard Stevens KC > London, England > Barrister Profile

Charles Sorensen practises as both an English Barrister and Jersey Advocate.

His practice covers a broad range of commercial and chancery work with a focus on contentious trusts and estates, civil fraud and contractual disputes.

He has particular expertise in cross border disputes involving offshore structures and has acted in cases involving Jersey, Guernsey, Cyprus, Isle of Man, Switzerland, BVI, Cayman, Bahamas, Turks & Caicos, Singapore, Hong Kong, Dubai, Brazil, China, India, Japan and the United States.

Charles is among a small number of London based practitioners who are dual qualified in England and Jersey and appear in the courts of both jurisdictions. Before joining chambers he practised with a leading offshore firm and has extensive experience appearing before the Jersey courts, both as sole counsel and led by senior members of the Jersey Bar. In May 2023 he was appointed to the Attorney General’s panel of Independent Monitors for the purpose of The Criminal Justice (Deferred Prosecution Agreements) Law 2023.

Charles has been ranked as both a Next Generation Lawyer and a Leading Junior by the Legal 500. He has published extensively on offshore dispute resolution, spoken on a wide range of subjects at international legal conferences and taught English contract law on the LLB course at the Jersey Institute of Law.