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Ms Elizabeth Weaver
Position
Elizabeth Weaver is an “eminent junior” with a broad commercial Chancery practice focusing on private wealth and business disputes. Her range of work and wealth of experience means that she has the technical knowledge needed to analyse cases where corporate and equitable principles overlap and the ability to give commercial and strategic advice and ensure the effective and efficient presentation of a client’s case. Described as “a very articulate and impressively persuasive barrister” Elizabeth is frequently instructed to appear unled against silks and also to work as a part of a team in large-scale private wealth disputes and commercial claims (both High Court litigation and arbitration).
Career
Called 1982, Lincoln’s Inn
Memberships
- Bar of the Eastern Caribbean Supreme Court
- Registered Legal Practitioner Dubai International Financial Centre
- Chancery Bar Association
- STEP
- ACTAPS
- Commercial Bar Association
- Professional Negligence Bar Association
- Court of Protection Bar Association
- Institute of Art and Law
- Member of Professional Conduct & Complaints Committee of the Bar Council (2005-2010)
Education
- LLB Bristol
- Hardwicke Scholar Lincoln’s Inn
Lawyer Rankings
London Bar > Private wealth and probate
(Leading Juniors)Ranked: Tier 2Elizabeth Weaver –XXIV Old Buildings ‘Elizabeth is very thorough, easy to work with and willing to take a pragmatic approach when necessary. She is very good at assessing risk and helping to make balanced decisions in light of all the issues.’
XXIV Old Buildings is ‘the leading set for domestic and international contentious trust, probate and commercial disputes’. Elspeth Talbot Rice KC is heavily involved in complex and high-value contentious trust matters, including applications for addition and removal of beneficiaries, removal or substitute trustee and restructuring of the trusts. ‘A real intellectual giant of the chancery Bar’, Adam Cloherty KC, is currently acting for the beneficiary in a case concerning the structuring of trusts holding several UK companies, in a dispute over control of the structure. On the junior end, Daniel Warents garners praise for his ‘skilful and slick cross-examination’, and Elizabeth Weaver regularly acts for trustees, executors and beneficiaries and is known for ‘spotting the critical points for development in any case’.
London Bar > Company
(Leading Juniors)Ranked: Tier 3Elizabeth Weaver – XXIV Old Buildings ‘Elizabeth is simply fantastic. She gets to the heart of the issue quickly and establishes a rapport with clients who trust her advice.’
London Bar > Commercial litigation
(Leading Juniors)Ranked: Tier 3Elizabeth Weaver – XXIV Old Buildings ‘Very sensible and absolutely clear in her thinking. Judges like her very much and clients feel truly represented.’