Events / Webinars
Wilberforce Commercial Litigation Conference 2025
Thursday 16 October 2025 | 12.30pm - 5.30pm followed by drinks and canapés
St Pancras Autograph Collection, London
£160 + VAT | 3.5 CPD
View moreJessica has a busy commercial chancery practice focused on civil fraud, commercial, insolvency and shareholder disputes. She is ranked as a leading junior in both commercial litigation and insolvency, and has been described as ‘hands-on, detail-oriented and robust in the face of slippery opponents’, a ‘great advocate and a delight to work with’ and ‘very conscientious, resilient and persistent’.
She is an experienced advocate, who appears regularly in the High Court, and has extensive High Court trial experience acting as sole counsel. She acts in high-value, complicated disputes, both international and domestic, particularly cases involving asset tracing, allegations of fraud or dishonesty and urgent injunctive relief. She has successfully appeared unled in the Court of Appeal.
Notable current and recent instructions include:
Commercial disputes
Jessica’s practice includes all aspects of commercial litigation, with a particular focus on civil fraud, including applications for urgent injunctive relief and asset recovery. She is ranked as a leading junior in commercial litigation and is described as ‘hands-on, detail-oriented and robust in the face of slippery opponents’, and regularly acts in multi-million pound commercial disputes, both domestic and international.
Recent experience includes:
Jessica is hands-on, detail-oriented and robust in the face of slippery opponents. Great advocate and a delight to work with,
Jessica Brooke is very conscientious, resilient and persistent. She covers every base and is very thorough.
She is responsive and able to provide a quick view on issues, followed by an in-depth analysis. She’s capable, bright and gets among the issues.
Sound legal knowledge. Commercially minded and has excellent attention to detail. Able to process evidence and hone in on the detail.
Very thorough and a great asset to cases, bringing a calmness to the challenges of disputes.
Events / Webinars
Thursday 16 October 2025 | 12.30pm - 5.30pm followed by drinks and canapés
St Pancras Autograph Collection, London
£160 + VAT | 3.5 CPD
View moreEvents / Webinars
Wednesday 2nd October 2024 | 12.15pm - 5.50pm, followed by drinks and canapés
The Langham, London
£155 + VAT | 3.1 CPD
View moreExternal Conferences
Monday 18th March 2024
Online
Speakers:
Jessica Brooke
External Conferences
Tuesday 12th March 2024
Ironmongers' Hall, London
Speakers:
Jessica Brooke
Civil fraud and asset recovery
Jessica has extensive experience in civil fraud and asset recovery work, and is frequently in court both seeking and defending freezing and proprietary injunctions and other urgent injunctive relief and disclosure orders. She regularly acts in claims involving deceit, conspiracy, dishonest assistance, knowing receipt, misrepresentation and breach of fiduciary duty, both as sole and junior counsel.
Jessica is hands-on, detail-oriented and robust in the face of slippery opponents. Great advocate and a delight to work with.
Jessica Brooke is very conscientious, resilient and persistent. She covers every base and is very thorough.
She is responsive and able to provide a quick view on issues, followed by an in-depth analysis. She’s capable, bright and gets among the issues.
Sound legal knowledge. Commercially minded and has excellent attention to detail. Able to process evidence and hone in on the detail.
Very thorough and a great asset to cases, bringing a calmness to the challenges of disputes.
Articles
Jessica Brooke has contributed to the Women in FIRE Supplement included in Issue 15 of FIRE Magazine, TL4’s annual ‘Year in Review Edition 2023’ discussing her highlights of 2023. Read the full article
By Jessica Brooke
Monday 18 December 2023
External Conferences
Tuesday 28th November 2023
Central London
Speakers:
Thomas Grant KC | Tim Penny KC | Jessica Brooke | Elizabeth Houghton
Events / Webinars
Wednesday 8th November 2023 | 12.45pm - 5.30pm, followed by drinks
Courthouse Hotel Shoreditch, London
£120 + VAT | 3.5 CPD
View moreNews
ThoughtLeaders4 has recently launched an initiative that embodies the core values of empowerment, knowledge exchange, and inclusivity – Women in FIRE. We are delighted to announce that Marcia Shekerdemian KC and Jessica Brooke are on the advisory committee. TL4 says: “This endeavour... Read more
Tuesday 29 August 2023
View moreInsolvency
Jessica is frequently instructed in corporate insolvency matters, both domestic and international. She is ranked as a leading junior in insolvency in both Chambers and Partners and the Legal 500, in which she is described as:
‘a very good advocate. She is strong technically, has a strong knowledge of insolvency and is able to grasp complexity very well.’
‘very conscientious, resilient and persistent. She covers every base and is very thorough.’
Her experience includes TUV claims, preferences, unlawful dividends, fraudulent and wrongful trading, disputed debts, validation orders, s.236 applications, Berkeley Applegate applications, administration applications, office-holder remuneration applications and urgent injunctions to restrain petitions and to rescind winding up orders. She is regularly instructed in misfeasance applications brought against company directors, acting for both liquidators and respondents, and she has substantial experience in dealing with cases involving allegations of fraud or dishonesty.
She is also regularly instructed to undertake personal insolvency work. Her experience extends to matters involving COMI disputes, applications for the annulment of bankruptcy orders, validation orders, s.366 applications, applications to suspend discharge from bankruptcy, income payment orders, applications to set aside statutory demands, insolvency administration orders in respect of the estates of deceased insolvents and applications for possession and sale where issues regarding beneficial ownership or the equity of exoneration arise.
Recent experience includes:
Jessica is hands-on, detail-oriented and robust in the face of slippery opponents. Great advocate and a delight to work with.
Jessica is a very good advocate. She is strong technically, has a strong knowledge of insolvency and is able to grasp complexity very well.
Jessica Brooke is very conscientious, resilient and persistent. She covers every base and is very thorough.
She is responsive and able to provide a quick view on issues, followed by an in-depth analysis. She’s capable, bright and gets among the issues.
Sound legal knowledge. Commercially minded and has excellent attention to detail. Able to process evidence and hone in on the detail.
Events / Webinars
Wednesday 23 April 2025 | 1pm - 6pm, followed by drinks and dinner
InterContinental Park Lane, London
£145 - £195 + VAT | 3.5 CPD
View moreExternal Conferences
Monday 18th March 2024
Online
Speakers:
Jessica Brooke
Events / Webinars
Thursday 1st February 2024 | 12.30pm - 5.55pm, followed by drinks and dinner
The Carlton Tower Jumeirah, London
£130 - £185 + VAT | 4 CPD
View moreRecent Cases
Insolvency, Commercial disputes, Company law
Jessica Brooke
Friday 22 December 2023
Company law
Jessica is experienced in advising and appearing in a wide range of company matters, including unfair prejudice petitions, shareholder disputes, breach of directors’ duties, unlawful distributions, director disqualification proceedings, applications to restore companies to the register, applications to amend a company’s register of members and applications to extend time for the registration of company charges.
Jessica is also regularly instructed to act in high-value partnership disputes. Her experience includes disputes as to the extent of partnership shares, the beneficial ownership of assets, dissolution, the division of profits, breach of duties, the construction of partnership agreements and duties of disclosure.
Recent experience includes:
Jessica is hands-on, detail-oriented and robust in the face of slippery opponents. Great advocate and a delight to work with.
Jessica Brooke is very conscientious, resilient and persistent. She covers every base and is very thorough.
She is responsive and able to provide a quick view on issues, followed by an in-depth analysis. She’s capable, bright and gets among the issues.
Sound legal knowledge. Commercially minded and has excellent attention to detail. Able to process evidence and hone in on the detail.
Very thorough and a great asset to cases, bringing a calmness to the challenges of disputes.
External Conferences
Monday 18th March 2024
Online
Speakers:
Jessica Brooke
Recent Cases
Insolvency, Commercial disputes, Company law
Jessica Brooke
Friday 22 December 2023
Articles
Jessica Brooke has contributed to the Women in FIRE Supplement included in Issue 15 of FIRE Magazine, TL4’s annual ‘Year in Review Edition 2023’ discussing her highlights of 2023. Read the full article
By Jessica Brooke
Monday 18 December 2023
Events / Webinars
Wednesday 13 July 2022 | 12.20pm - 6pm, followed by drinks
Convene (and online via Zoom), 22 Bishopsgate, London EC2N 4BQ
£120 + VAT | 4.0 CPD
View moreRegistered name: Miss Jessica Ashford Brooke
VAT number: 182328016