Jennifer Haywood

Barrister, Serle Court

Jennifer is a barrister, a fellow of the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators and a CEDR accredited mediator.

Her practice as a barrister has covered much of the breadth of commercial chancery work, with an emphasis on disputes between members of partnerships, LPs, LLPs, companies and joint ventures and disputes involving alleged breaches of fiduciary duty/good faith, trusts and fraud. She is ranked in Band 1 for partnership by both Chambers and Partners and Legal 500.

Jennifer has sat as sole arbitrator, co-arbitrator and presiding arbitration in arbitrations covering a wide range of issues and sectors, including professional services, financial services, pharmaceutical supplies and real property, particularly in shareholder/partner/JV disputes.

She has also conducted over 50 mediations, many of them complex and emotionally charged, arising out of partnership, commercial, property and trust/probate disputes.

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Law of the arbitration proceedings—curial law or lex arbitri (England and Wales)

Practice Notes

This Practice Note considers the law governing the procedural aspects of the arbitration (also referred to as the curial law or lex arbitri) and how it is determined pursuant to the law of England and Wales. The Practice Note also considers whether the procedural law of the arbitration can be different from the law of the seat, and the effect of that distinction.

Arbitration