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Ms Stephanie Thompson

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Work Department

Chancery, Commercial, Private Client, Trusts, Probate, Partnership & LLP, Property, Offshore and Civil Fraud.

Position

Stephanie has a broad commercial chancery practice, with a focus on civil fraud, offshore trust litigation and domestic trust and probate litigation. She has a particular interest in cases with foreign law elements and has experience in overseas jurisdictions including Bermuda, The Bahamas, the BVI, Jersey, Guernsey and New Zealand. Stephanie is regularly instructed as sole counsel in the High Court and is equally comfortable working as part of a larger team: she is one of a four-member Counsel team acting in Wong v Grand View PTC & Ors (in the Bermuda courts) and Wong v Grand View PTC (in the Privy Council).  She also has a developing arbitration practice and has appeared in or advised on proceedings under the UNCITRAL, ICC and LCIA Rules.

Stephanie was admitted to the British Virgin Islands bar in 2022.

Prior to joining Serle Court, Stephanie was a barrister in New Zealand for three years. She also completed an LLM at the University of Cambridge, where she received the BRD Clarke Prize for coming first in her year and prizes for coming first in each of her four subjects.

Career

Year of Call: 2017.

Education

LLM (Distinction) University of Cambridge
BA, LLB (Hons) University of Auckland
Called to the New Zealand Bar in 2013