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Ms Erin Hitchens

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Position

Erin has a broad commercial chancery practice and welcomes instructions in all of the areas of work in which Chambers specialises. She has advised, drafted proceedings and appeared in court, both as sole counsel and as part of a counsel team, on a range of matters including business and contractual disputes, aviation, fraud and asset tracing, trusts and probate, shareholder disputes, insolvency and financial services disputes.

She regularly appears in the High Court on applications, interlocutory hearings, petitions and trials. She has also been instructed in relation to proceedings in several offshore jurisdictions including the Cayman Islands, Bermuda, Jersey, the BVI, Anguilla and the DIFC.

Erin has twice undertaken secondments with solicitors’ practices advising on contentious trusts and succession.

Prior to being called to the Bar, Erin was a solicitor in the corporate department of leading international law firm Herbert Smith.

Career

Qualified as solicitor 2004; called 2006, Lincoln’s Inn.

Languages

French.

Memberships

Chancery Bar Association.

Education

• BA (Hons) Emmanuel College, Cambridge (First Class)
• Pg Dip Law (Distinction)