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Edward Sawyer
Position
Edward has a commercial and chancery practice, with particular experience in the fields of pensions, trusts, commercial disputes, professional negligence, international work, financial services and civil fraud. His practice encompasses litigation and advisory work across the broad range of commercial chancery cases.
Edward is regularly involved in large-scale litigation involving pension schemes, regulatory work, trust disputes, business disputes and professional liability, often with an international or offshore element. He has considerable experience of document-heavy long-running cases and working as part of multi-jurisdictional legal teams.
Career
Called 2001; Middle Temple.
Memberships
Chancery Bar Association; Association of Pension Lawyers; Civil Fraud Lawyers Association; Commercial Bar Association; Property Bar Association.
Education
Lincoln College, Oxford (1998 BA Modern History).
Lawyer Rankings
London Bar > Private wealth and probate
(Leading Juniors)Ranked: Tier 4Edward Sawyer – Wilberforce Chambers ‘Edward is conscientious and considerate, with a brilliant technical mind. He has excellent attention to detail in drafting. His oral advocacy is strong and measured.’
London Bar > Professional negligence
(Leading Juniors)Ranked: Tier 6Edward Sawyer – Wilberforce Chambers ‘He is an excellent advocate. He explains difficult concepts clearly. He is very pleasant, calm, highly intelligent, and very hardworking.’
Wilberforce Chambers undertake a variety of professional indemnity cases, including claims against barristers, solicitors, accountants, surveyors, and insurance brokers. Paul Newman KC is involved with the case of Royal College of Midwives v Walkers Solicitors, a claim arising out of a breach of duty against the solicitors of the trustees of a pension scheme. Edward Sawyer is representing a firm of solicitors in Re Wandel, a multi-party claim arising out of the administration of a pension scheme. In the case of Skykomish v Gerald Eve, Jonathan Seitler KC is instructed on behalf of Skykomish Ltd in a multi-million claim alleging the negligent valuation of student accommodation.
London Bar > Pensions
(Leading Juniors)Ranked: Tier 1Edward Sawyer –Wilberforce Chambers ‘Edward is both thoughtful and practical and sees the full picture. He combines technical knowledge with commercial awareness and is one of the most highly rated senior juniors.’
London Bar > Commercial litigation
(Leading Juniors)Ranked: Tier 4Edward Sawyer – Wilberforce Chambers ‘Edward has excellent legal knowledge and great tactical skills and is a great advocate on paper and on his feet. His super power is being able to use his strong technical knowledge of different areas of law and procedural rules to plot a clear way through a very unusual dispute, coming up with a clear, entirely novel, and incredibly good approach.’