Jules Sher Q.C.

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Qualified: 
Mediator
Specialist Areas: 
Commercial
Pensions
Professional Negligence
Property, planning and environment
Wills, inheritance and probate
Education: 
B.Com.LLB (Rand)
BCL (Oxon)

Judicial History: 
Deputy High Court Judge (Commercial Court and Chancery Division)
Recorder

General Information: 
  •  He has been involved in dispute resolution as a Solicitor in South Africa and as a junior Barrister and (since 1981) as a QC in England
  • He is hard working and prepared to go the extra mile to achieve a settlement
  • The parties in dispute and their legal representatives respect and listen to him
  • He can master, in a short space of time, the essential issues in dispute, out of many ring-binders of documents
  • He is patient and will take time to understand the parties’ concerns and objectives

Areas of Law

  • Professional Negligence ( accountants’, solicitors’, valuers, directors, eg Equitable Life’s massive claim against its Board of Directors)
  • Contract (innumerable contractual disputes including share acquisition agreements and breach of warranties; recently involved in large contractual dispute between Russian oligarchs)
  • Trust ( breach of trust cases involving substantial sums)
  • Company Law and Partnership (minority shareholders’ disputes; board room conflicts; partnership dissolution; partnership accounts)
  • Probate ( he has acted in and judged many contentious probate cases)
  • Property ( all aspects of residential and commercial property disputes; landlord and tenant)
  • Insurance ( Society of Lloyd’s, disputes with Names, involved in advising on reconstruction of the market)
  • Pensions ( in many of the reported cases over the years

Current circumstances
He has retired from the bar and as Head of Wilberforce Chambers to concentrate on other things, including mediation.