Events / Webinars
Wilberforce Fraud, Trusts & Asset Recovery Conference 2024
Thursday 4th July 2024 | 12.30pm - 5.25pm, followed by drinks and canapés
The View at The Royal College of Surgeons
£135 + VAT | 3.5 CPD
View moreEdward has a commercial and chancery practice, with particular experience in the fields of pensions, trusts, commercial disputes, professional negligence, international work, financial services and civil fraud. His practice encompasses litigation and advisory work across the broad range of commercial chancery cases.
Edward is regularly involved in large-scale litigation involving pension schemes, regulatory work, trust disputes, business disputes and professional liability, often with an international or offshore element. He has considerable experience of document-heavy long-running cases and working as part of multi-jurisdictional legal teams.
Edward is recommended in Chambers & Partners and The Legal 500 for pensions, private client, commercial: chancery, professional negligence and civil fraud.
Edward was a scholar of Lincoln College, Oxford, where he obtained one of the best first class degrees in his year in Modern History. He achieved the highest mark in his year on both the CPE law conversion course and the Bar Vocational Course. He is a Queen Mother Scholar of the Middle Temple and was awarded the Eldon Law Scholarship by Oxford University.
Commercial disputes
Edward has a wide experience of commercial disputes, often on a large scale or with an international element. He is recommended in Chambers & Partners for “commercial: chancery” and in The Legal 500 for “commercial litigation” and “fraud: civil”.
His cases range from purely contractual disputes to complex disputes involving issues of asset tracing, equitable remedies, financial services, fraud and conflicts of laws. Edward has considerable experience of document-heavy and intensive litigation.
Cases include:
An outstanding lawyer, who is exceptionally clever and an excellent advocate.
A superb draftsman and one who has a real forensic eye for points of detail.
Edward is one of the best juniors out there. Exceptional attention to detail and preparation, coupled with good commercial acumen, makes him a high-demand barrister.
Edward is exceptionally able, a very strong strategist and advocate. He is creative in working out how to use the court processes to get the client where it needs to be.
An amazing technical mind who misses nothing.
Events / Webinars
Thursday 4th July 2024 | 12.30pm - 5.25pm, followed by drinks and canapés
The View at The Royal College of Surgeons
£135 + VAT | 3.5 CPD
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Thursday 28 March 2019 | 12.30pm - 5.30pm followed by drinks
Kimpton Fitzroy, 1-8 Russell Square, Bloomsbury, London WC1B 5BE
£120 + VAT | 3.5 CPD
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Tuesday 29 November 2016 | 4.00pm -6.30pm
The Old Government House Hotel, Guernsey,
2.0 CPD
View morePensions
Edward is recommended as one of the leading pensions juniors in Chambers & Partners and The Legal 500.
He has extensive experience of pensions litigation and advisory work, having appeared in a number of high-profile recent cases such as Mitchells & Butlers, Lloyds Bank Pension Scheme (GMP equalisation), Pensions Protection Fund v Dalriada, IBM, Nortel, Merchant Navy Ratings and many others. He has often appeared as advocate against silks on the other side.
Edward regularly deals with issues as to scheme funding, s75 debts, equalisation, rectification, trustee and employer duties, interpretation, insolvency, regulatory powers, PPF entry and professional liability, amongst other matters.
Edward has been involved in a number of the leading cases on Pensions Regulator proceedings such as the Bonas Group Pension Scheme and Box Clever. He has particular experience of cases concerning the Regulator’s “moral hazard” powers.
Edward has acted for many different types of client in pensions cases: trustees, employers, members / representative beneficiaries, public bodies and professional advisers/insurers. He aims to combine specialist technical knowledge with a practical and strategic approach.
His pensions practice also comprises pensions-related professional negligence claims.
Example cases:
An outstanding lawyer, who is exceptionally clever and an excellent advocate.
A superb draftsman and one who has a real forensic eye for points of detail.
Edward is one of the best juniors out there. Exceptional attention to detail and preparation, coupled with good commercial acumen, makes him a high-demand barrister.
Edward is exceptionally able, a very strong strategist and advocate. He is creative in working out how to use the court processes to get the client where it needs to be.
An amazing technical mind who misses nothing.
Articles
Article by: Joseph Steadman 1. On 9 July 2024, the Court of Appeal handed down judgment in an appeal concerning the limits on a power to make alterations in the BBC Pension Scheme (the “Scheme”). The appeal was dismissed, and... Read more
By Brian Green KC | Michael Tennet KC | Edward Sawyer | Joseph Steadman
Thursday 18 July 2024
Recent Cases
Pensions
Brian Green KC | Michael Tennet KC | Edward Sawyer | Joseph Steadman
Tuesday 9 July 2024
Events / Webinars
Wednesday 19th June 2024 | 12.15pm - 5.40pm, followed by drinks and dinner by Nobu
Nobu Shoreditch, London
£140 - £190 + VAT | 3.5 CPD
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Edward Sawyer has written an article in which he discusses the Court of Appeal’s decision in BMA v HM Treasury, which upheld the validity of directions made by the Treasury to charge members rather than taxpayers with the costs of... Read more
By Edward Sawyer
Thursday 16 May 2024
Professional liability
Edward is recommended by The Legal 500 in the field of “professional negligence”.
Edward has considerable experience of professional negligence cases involving accountants, auditors, lawyers, actuaries and financial advisers. He has been particularly involved in cases regarding investment funds and pension funds, and in professional negligence claims arising out of fraud.
Representative work includes:
An outstanding lawyer, who is exceptionally clever and an excellent advocate.
A superb draftsman and one who has a real forensic eye for points of detail.
Edward is one of the best juniors out there. Exceptional attention to detail and preparation, coupled with good commercial acumen, makes him a high-demand barrister.
Edward is exceptionally able, a very strong strategist and advocate. He is creative in working out how to use the court processes to get the client where it needs to be.
An excellent, hard-working and very capable senior junior.
Events / Webinars
Thursday 31 January 2019 | 8.30am - 1.00pm followed by lunch
One Moorgate Place, Chartered Accountants Hall, London EC2R 6EA
£75 + VAT | 3.0 CPD
View moreTrusts, probate and estates: contentious
Edward has been involved in many contentious and non-contentious cases involving trusts, probate and succession, both domestic and offshore. He has had particular experience in recent years of domestic trusts litigation and advisory work (much of it confidential in nature), while also working on heavy offshore trusts litigation. He has acted on behalf of trustees and beneficiaries and for and against professional advisers acting for the trust. Edward aims to provide practical client-focused solutions and, where litigation is necessary, a strategic and proportionate approach.
He is ranked as a leading junior in The Legal 500 in the field of “private client: trusts and probate”.
Recent cases include:
An outstanding lawyer, who is exceptionally clever and an excellent advocate.
A superb draftsman and one who has a real forensic eye for points of detail.
Edward is one of the best juniors out there. Exceptional attention to detail and preparation, coupled with good commercial acumen, makes him a high-demand barrister.
Edward is exceptionally able, a very strong strategist and advocate. He is creative in working out how to use the court processes to get the client where it needs to be.
An excellent, hard-working and very capable senior junior.
Events / Webinars
Thursday 4th July 2024 | 12.30pm - 5.25pm, followed by drinks and canapés
The View at The Royal College of Surgeons
£135 + VAT | 3.5 CPD
View moreArticles
Article by Edward Sawyer, 2nd February 2024 To read or download this article as a PDF, please click here. Introduction The UK’s data protection legislation has been in the news recently with the introduction last autumn of a US-UK data bridge... Read more
By Edward Sawyer
Friday 2 February 2024
Events / Webinars
Monday 29th January 2024 | 9am - 5.35pm, followed by drinks and dinner
InterContinental Park Lane, London
£299 - £360 + VAT | 5.5 CPD
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We are delighted to announce that Wilberforce has 11 nominations across 9 different categories at The Legal 500 Bar Awards 2023. Set of the Year Chancery Set of the Year Chancery Junior of the Year: Edward Sawyer, Sebastian Allen Chancery... Read more
Wednesday 12 July 2023
View moreRegistered name: Mr Edward Humphrey Sawyer
VAT number: 802811659