Fiona is a confident advocate with a broad commercial practice covering litigation and international arbitration in Chambers’ main practice areas, including:
- Shipping and international trade
- Jurisdiction and conflict of laws
- Energy
- Insurance
- Technology and IT/digital
- Banking, insurance and financial services
She has appeared as sole counsel in the High Court and County Court.
She regularly advises on international services contracts, sale contracts and charterparty and commodities disputes. Her practice includes a broad range of contract, tort, agency, trust/equity and restitution disputes.
An active publisher, Fiona contributed to the leading text on the conflict of laws, Dicey on Conflicts, the White Book 2019 (on European jurisdiction and service) and Freedom of Information in the UK. She is also on the Lexis Nexis Lexis PSL case analysis panel.
Fiona prides herself on being a flexible, personable barrister who is quick to grasp points and easily able to integrate into teams.
Before coming to the Bar, Fiona was a policy advisor to the UK government and taught Law at a leading German university (world trade law, EU law and English public law).