As a referral barrister and Cayman attorney who acts on professional instructions Shân is both an adviser and a litigator with an equal enthusiasm for both. She specialises in private trusts, succession and other private wealth issues often involving a number of different jurisdictions. Shân has a truly international practice which takes her around the world from her London base at 5 Stone Buildings, Lincoln’s Inn and her Cayman base at International Chancery and Trusts Chambers. Shân is at the forefront of developments in the private client field and has been involved in many of the major trust cases of recent years in a variety of jurisdictions. She is admitted to practise in England and Wales, the Cayman Islands, the British Virgin Islands, Barbados and Trinidad and Tobago. She has been granted limited admission on several occasions to appear before the courts of Bermuda and Hong Kong and frequently assists local attorneys or advocates in other jurisdictions, including Jersey and Guernsey.
Notable cases
Shân is at the forefront of developments in the private client field and as a result she has been consulted by governments in connection with proposed legislative revisions to trust law. She appeared in Re Yorke (deceased)[1997] 4 All ER. 907, the test case on estates of Lloyds Names, and is the author of the subsequent Practice Direction permitting paper applications to the court in such cases. Some of Shân’s other notable cases are:
Shân has also appeared in numerous important and often highly sensitive unreported cases dealing with variations of trust, construction and rectification proceedings, breach of trust claims and applications for directions by trustees, particularly those concerning the sale or management of family companies, the effect of orders made on the divorce of settlors or beneficiaries and the impact of marital regimes on the offshore “firewall” legislation.
