Practice overview

Allison joined Wilberforce in October 2025 following the successful completion of her pupillage. Allison is developing a broad commercial chancery practice and is happy to be instructed as sole counsel or as part of a team. During pupillage, she gained experience across the full range of Chambers’ practice areas.

Before joining Wilberforce, Allison received a first class degree in law from the London School of Economics, where she ranked second in her cohort and won multiple top-of-class subject prizes. She went on to complete the Bachelor of Civil Law (BCL) at the University of Oxford. Allison also taught Property II (trusts) at the London School of Economics prior to commencing pupillage.

Allison is fluent in Mandarin.

Allison's expertise

Commercial

  • Assisting James McCreath in a dispute concerning the termination of an option agreement to purchase land (during pupillage)
  • Assisting Alice Hawker in advising on the merits of a potential group claim for breach of contract and breach of consumer protection regulations (during pupillage)
  • Assisting Tim Matthewson in a dispute concerning the alleged termination of a consultancy agreement (during pupillage)
  • Assisting Alice Hawker in drafting injunction proceedings for the delivery up of commercial equipment licensed under a hire agreement (during pupillage)

Civil Fraud

  • Assisting James Goodwin in a multi-jurisdictional fraud dispute involving allegations of deceit, forgery, and misappropriation of assets (during pupillage)
  • Assisting Alice Hawker in advising on the merits of a claim for deceit in respect of a supply agreement worth c £14 million (during pupillage)
  • Drafting pleadings in a fraud claim involving claims for fraudulent misrepresentation, breach of trust, unjust enrichment, knowing receipt and dishonest assistance (during pupillage, with Tim Matthewson)
  • Drafting pleadings in a mortgage fraud claim against conveyancing solicitors for negligence, breach of trust, and breach of undertaking (during pupillage, with Alice Hawker)

Trusts, probate, and estates

  • Assisting James Goodwin in a multibillion-dollar commercial trusts dispute concerning a contested distribution of trust assets to the settlor-beneficiary (during pupillage)
  • Assisting James Goodwin in resisting a proprietary injunction in a dispute over the beneficial ownership of three properties (during pupillage)

Property

  • Assisting Alice Hawker in a six-day trial to enforce a £50 million mortgage facility involving issues of collateral contract and promissory estoppel, and a counterclaim for £5 million arising from allegations of unjust enrichment (during pupillage)
  • Assisting Emer Murphy in a dispute concerning multiple breaches of contract in respect of a large-scale development (during pupillage)
  • Assisting James McCreath in advising on the merits of a claim for wrongful forfeiture and/or relief from forfeiture (during pupillage)
  • Assisting Alice Hawker in advising on a third party’s right to enforce repair covenants under a transfer of land (during pupillage)

Professional liability

  • Drafting pleadings for a claim for loss of chance damages arising out of negligent advice given in respect of an option agreement (with Emer Murphy, during pupillage)

Pensions

  • Assisting James McCreath in advising on the validity of a deed of amendment to a pension scheme (during pupillage)

Allison's Details

BSB/VAT information

Registered name: Miss Allison I-Shan Wu
VAT number: XXXXXXXXX

Qualifications

  • LLB, London School of Economics
  • BCL, University of Oxford
  • BVS, City, University of London

Awards

  • Dean’s Medal for Second Best Overall Performance on the LLB
  • Dean’s Medal for Best Undergraduate Dissertation
  • Dean’s List for Competition Law
  • Blackstone Chambers Prize for Commercial Contracts

Publications

  • Teen Jui Chow and Allison Wu, The Constructive Trust over Unauthorised Profits as a Remedy (2024) LMCLQ 558

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