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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 Head of Business Development for Asia Pacific, Katie-Beth Jones, and for all other queries please contact Lynn Quek. Out of office hours calls will automatically be diverted to our practice management 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 Head of Business Development for Asia Pacific, Katie-Beth Jones, and for all other queries please contact Lynn Quek. Out of office hours calls will automatically be diverted to our practice management 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

Fiona Whiteside

Fiona Whiteside

Call: 2017

Languages: German (proficient)

Fiona is a versatile barrister with a broad commercial practice and is regularly instructed as led and unled counsel in cases of the utmost importance, including in the Supreme Court. Her practice encompasses contractual, international trade, civil fraud, banking/fintech, construction/energy, jurisdictional and company/insolvency disputes.

Fiona regularly advises in her own right and appears as a sole advocate in the High Court and County Court, including on appeal. Highlights of her recent litigation and arbitration experience include successfully defending a test case for the business model of an energy broker client, obtaining injunctive relief on behalf of a partnership to enforce post-termination restrictive covenants against a departing partner, and succeeding in a sale of goods dispute which turned on a complex construction argument about the meaning of “Insurance Total Loss”.

Fiona is a confident and experienced advocate who has received praise from judges for the quality of her submissions in both the High Court and County Courts, for example, while acting for a global bank defending an appeal about the legal requirements for a binding settlement agreement, and while acting pro bono to resist an injunction in order to prevent a family losing their home.

Before joining Chambers, Fiona was a policy advisor to the UK government, where she led a complex IT procurement project and the commercialisation of a multi-billion-pound government programme. She also taught law at a leading German university (world trade law, EU law and English public law).

An active publisher, Fiona has contributed to the foremost authority on the conflict of laws, Dicey on Conflicts. She also contributed to the White Book 2019 on issues of European jurisdiction and service, and Cullen on Freedom of Information in the UK.

Fiona prides herself on being a flexible, personable barrister who is quick to grasp points and easily able to integrate into teams. She also accepts arbitral appointments.

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Technically excellent, responsive and a real pleasure to work with.

Stephen Inglis, Solicitor Advocate, Claremont Litigation

Fiona Whiteside is an able young barrister whose submissions are concise and tightly drafted. She has a good knowledge of the law, is efficient and responds promptly within the timelines she advises. Fiona is also approachable and a pleasure to work with.

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