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Described as “a star” by a client, Rachel Carver has a busy commercial chancery practice, spanning the full spectrum of Chambers’ practice areas. Her interests include trusts, probate and estates litigation, company law, commercial dispute resolution, and financial services.

Rachel is an in-demand junior, with clients commenting that she is “[s]uch a help and a pleasure to have in the team”. She is also comfortable acting as sole counsel and welcomes instructions in any of her areas of expertise.

Rachel has particular experience in offshore trust matters, having spent five months on secondment with a leading Jersey law firm, during which she advised and assisted on several complex, multi-million pound trust cases. Her recent work in this area has included matters in Jersey, Guernsey, the Bahamas, and the BVI, encompassing disputes about the appointment and removal of trustees, the validity of trust deeds, and the ownership of trust assets, and applications for accounts, trust information, leave to distribute, and Beddoe relief.

Rachel graduated with a First-Class degree in History from the University of Oxford and achieved Distinctions in the GDL and BVS. She was awarded scholarships by her Oxford college and Gray’s Inn, as well as winning a number of academic prizes.

Prior to coming to the Bar, Rachel worked as a professional harpist. She has performed at most of the country’s major concert venues, as well as making appearances as a soloist and in orchestras on BBC TV and classical music radio stations.

• Bar Vocational Studies with Specialisms (Distinction), City, University of London (2020-2021).

• Graduate Diploma in Law (Distinction), City, University of London (2019-2020).

• Licentiate of the Royal Schools of Music in Harp Performance (Distinction), ABRSM (2019).

• Bachelor of Arts in History (First Class), St Edmund Hall, Oxford (2015-2018).

Scholarships and Prizes/Awards

• Sweet & Maxwell Prize for Company Law (City University of London, 2021).

• Venetia Stephenson and Residential Scholarships (Gray’s Inn, 2020-2021).

• Sheila Mars-Jones Scholarship (Gray’s Inn, 2019-2020).

• Schools Prize (St Edmund Hall, Oxford, 2018).

• Academic Scholarships (St Edmund Hall, Oxford, 2016-2018).