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Contact with chambers should be made through the Practice Management Team. They are happy to discuss client requirements and provide further information on such matters as the expertise and experience of individual members, fees, working practices and languages spoken. We have members able to work in French, German, Italian, Spanish, Dutch, Swedish, Greek and Chinese (Mandarin).

Outside working hours, a member of our team is always available to be contacted on matters of an urgent nature. Contact should be made using the Chambers main number or email.

For our Singapore office, for client enquiries please contact our BD Director, Asia Pacific, Lara Quie and for all other queries please contact Lynn Quek. Out of office hours calls will automatically be diverted to our clerking team in London.

London

20 Essex Street
London
WC2R 3AL

enquiries@twentyessex.com
t: +44 20 7842 1200

Singapore

28 Maxwell Road
#02-03 Maxwell Chambers Suites
Singapore 069120

singapore@twentyessex.com
t: +65 62257230

Contact

Contact with chambers should be made through the Practice Management Team. They are happy to discuss client requirements and provide further information on such matters as the expertise and experience of individual members, fees, working practices and languages spoken. We have members able to work in French, German, Italian, Spanish, Dutch, Swedish, Greek and Chinese (Mandarin).

Outside working hours, a member of our team is always available to be contacted on matters of an urgent nature. Contact should be made using the Chambers main number or email.

For our Singapore office, for client enquiries please contact our BD Director, Asia Pacific, Lara Quie and for all other queries please contact Lynn Quek. Out of office hours calls will automatically be diverted to our clerking team in London.

London

20 Essex Street
London
WC2R 3AL

enquiries@twentyessex.com
t: +44 20 7842 1200

Singapore

28 Maxwell Road
#02-03 Maxwell Chambers Suites
Singapore 069120

singapore@twentyessex.com
t: +65 62257230

Josephine Davies KC

Josephine Davies KC

Silk: 2024 Call: 2006

Languages: French (conversational)

Josephine specialises in all areas of commercial law and litigation. She has a unique skill-set combining:

    • depth and breadth of legal knowledge (in established fields, notably, competition, intellectual property, shipping, commodities and private international law and in developing areas including cryptocurrency and FRAND litigation);
    • strong technical understanding based on her scientific background (BA in Physical Natural Sciences and MSci in Chemistry);
    • extensive and diverse litigation (including urgent injunction and trial work) and arbitration experience.

Josephine is a strong advocate with experience in the Court of Appeal, the High Court (Commercial Court, Chancery Division and King’s Bench Division) and in international arbitrations and appeals. Josephine particularly enjoys urgent injunctive work and cross-examination of factual and expert witnesses including in relation to fraud allegations and complex scientific and financial matters.

Josephine has notable expertise in: the developing cryptoasset fraud sphere, in jurisdiction disputes, and in injunctive work (e.g. anti-suit, freezing, Norwich Pharmacal, breach of confidence and associated contempt proceedings).

Her work covers a range of sectors including IP, pharmaceuticals, science, technology and IT, distribution, shipping, commodities, shipbuilding, and energy. Josephine is recognised by the legal directories for commercial litigation, shipping and commodities work.

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General commercial, insurance and finance

Shipping, commodities and shipbuilding

IP, breach of confidence, cryptoassets, IT, pharmaceuticals, science and technology

Competition law

Private international law (jurisdiction, conflicts, foreign judgments)

Injunctions, contempt and interim applications

Energy

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An excellent barrister, with superb knowledge and drafting. This combined with efficiency and responsiveness makes her a pleasure to work with.

Chambers UK Bar 2024

Josephine is very user-friendly, speaks directly and is very clear and unequivocal in their advice.

Chambers UK Bar 2024

She is excellent and experienced in very impressive cases.

Chambers UK Bar 2024

Josephine is a tenacious advocate and pleasant to deal with.

Chambers UK Bar 2024

Very good at condensing difficult concepts into straightforward summaries.

Chambers UK Bar 2024

Josephine Davies absorbs herself into the team but is also able to give an independent perspective on the case.

Chambers UK Bar 2024

Hugely talented commercial and Chancery junior - tremendously able and compelling to work with

The Legal 500 UK Bar 2024

Josephine is incredibly thorough and a master of her brief. Up to date with the legislation and the case law, she produces thorough written work that makes it easy for judges to judge.

Chambers UK Bar 2024

She is not afraid to give a direct view on the merits of a point, without hedging her opinion with unnecessary caveats.

The Legal 500 UK Bar 2024

Josephine is not afraid to give a direct view on the merits of a point, without hedging her opinion with unnecessary caveats.

The Legal 500 UK Bar 2024

Josephine's intellectual prowess is truly exceptional, and her unwavering commitment to meticulous attention to detail sets her apart. In the realms of crypto fraud tracing and asset recovery, her reputation is enviable.

The Legal 500 UK Bar 2024

A very impressive junior, who combines a strong science and engineering background with good commercial understanding.

Chambers UK Bar 2023

A brilliant barrister with tremendous forensic ability and personality. Excellent to work with.

The Legal 500 UK Bar 2023

Josephine has an excellent commercial understanding of what motivates clients in this area, and gives pragmatic and practical advice that displays considerable legal knowledge and insight. She is someone that clients absolutely want to have on their team for jurisdictional disputes in IP cases.

The Legal 500 UK Bar 2023

Josephine shows amazing technical cross-examination of scientific witnesses. Her written work is very well structured. She is incredibly bright and her written work is superb.

Chambers UK Bar 2023

She has an impressive grasp of technical and financial details, responds quickly and clearly, and has a very sound knowledge of the law.

The Legal 500 UK Bar 2023

A very impressive junior, who combines a strong science and engineering background with good commercial understanding.

Chambers UK Bar 2022

No one can beat Josephine on detail. If you have a difficult problem to solve, especially where you need to consider complex data to understand the legal position, Josephine is the barrister to go to.

The Legal 500 UK Bar 2022

She is incredibly bright and her written work is superb.

Chambers UK Bar 2022

Josephine is a real talent. She is very dedicated and clever, with a deep knowledge of intellectual property disputes. A very confident junior.

The Legal 500 UK Bar 2022

She brings a rare combination of science and art, no one can beat her on detail and her style of advocacy is calm and precise.

The Legal 500 UK Bar 2022

Josephine shows amazing technical cross-examination of scientific witnesses.

Chambers UK Bar 2022

Very responsive and absolutely a team player. Her legal analysis is excellent and her resulting drafting is top-notch.

The Legal 500 UK Bar 2022

A very bright and attentive barrister; methodical, thorough and very articulate.

The Legal 500 UK Bar 2021

Precise in her work and excellent in technical matters, she is also straightforward and pleasant to work with.

The Legal 500 UK Bar 2021

Very user-friendly, structured, measured and thoughtful - assists in making difficult decisions with aplomb and tactically very effective.

The Legal 500 UK Bar 2021

She is extremely responsive, very thorough and very clear... She is good at the technical detail.

Chambers UK Bar 2021

A bright, sparkly, well informed, team player, and a hard worker and good advocate.

The Legal 500 UK Bar 2020

Josephine is seriously good on details and data, she also writes elegantly and her advocacy is on a par with many more senior barristers.

Chambers UK Bar 2020

Precise in her work and excellent in technical matters, she is also straightforward and pleasant to work with.

The Legal 500 UK Bar 2020

Tenacious and strong on the law and on expert evidence.

The Legal 500 UK Bar 2020

She is able to get on top of the science and explain it in simple, straightforward terms. She is fantastically thorough, her drafting is excellent and she is easy to get on with.

Chambers UK Bar 2019

Always impresses with creative solutions to complex problems.

The Legal 500 UK Bar 2018

Responsive, knowledgeable and creative, she adds value at every stage.

Chambers UK Bar 2018

A very strong advocate, very willing to go in to bat hard for her clients.

Chambers UK Bar 2017

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