Jennifer Seaman#4062

Jennifer Seaman

Jennifer practices in chancery and commercial litigation, with an emphasis on pensions, trusts, probate and estates, and professional negligence litigation. Jennifer regularly works as part of a team and appears in her own right against leading and junior counsel.

She is listed as a Leading Junior in the fields of Pensions and Chancery: Traditional in Chambers & Partners. She is also ranked as a Leading Junior in The Legal 500’s pensions section and recommended in Who’s Who Legal’s UK Bar Private Client category.

Jennifer was instructed on two high-profile Supreme Court cases: Futter v HMRC [2013] UKSC 26 (heard with Pitt v Holt, on the ‘rule in Re Hastings-Bass’, trustee powers and mistaken dispositions) and Benedetti v Sawiris [2013] UKSC 50 (restitution and quantum meruit awards).

She is appointed to the London A Panel of Junior Counsel to the Crown.

Jennifer’s full profile can be viewed on the Wilberforce Chambers site here.

Practice Area

Panel

  • Contributing Author

Qualified Year

  • 2007

Experience

  • Wilberforce Chambers (2022 - Present)
  • Outer Temple Chambers (2015 - 2022)
  • 3 Stone Buildings (2007 - 2015)

Membership

  • Association of Pension Lawyers
  • COMBAR
  • Chancery Bar Association
  • STEP Full Member
  • Association of Contentious Trust and Probate Specialists (ACTAPS)

Qualifications

  • BCL (University of Oxford, New College)
  • Jurisprudence, MA (Hons.)
  • New College Law Scholar
  • TEP (STEP)

Education

  • University of Oxford (2006)

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