Practice Overview

Carly is a leading junior whose practice covers all aspects of chancery and commercial litigation and advisory work. She has a broad range of experience in matters including insolvency (both personal and corporate), company and partnership, directors disqualification, professional negligence, banking, mortgage, guarantees and recovery of assets, trusts, contractual disputes and sale of goods.

Carly is consistently recommended as a Leading Junior in the Chambers and Partners. In Chambers and Partners 2017 she was recommended as a Leading Junior in both the fields of Commercial Dispute Resolution and Restructuring/Insolvency. Described as a superb advocate who is very sharp and always adds value”, clients report that she is sensible and down-to-earth, fights cases with vigour and is proactive and able to quickly grasp the issues. She is ‘tenacious’ and ‘pugnacious’ when she needs to be, is extremely hard-working and has a good commercial attitude. Carly has earned a reputation for thoroughness: her preparation for hearings and conferences is described by the Legal 500 as simply ‘outstanding’.

In 2010 Carly was appointed as Junior Counsel to the Crown (Provincial Panel) and was re-appointed in 2018 to Regional Panel A.

Her clients include insolvency practitioners, banks, multi-nationals, small businesses, professional firms and private individuals, as well as the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy and other Government Departments.