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Jia Wei has a burgeoning commercial chancery practice, with a particular focus on commercial, fraud, trusts and pensions work. Much of his practice spans across jurisdictions, and involves a wide range of both contentious and advisory work, and he is comfortable being instructed as part of a team, or in his own right. Jia Wei has also been admitted to the New York State Bar.

Jia Wei completed his undergraduate studies in law at Cambridge University, graduating in 2015 with a starred first-class degree. He was awarded a university prize for the best result in the Aspects of Obligations Tripos, as well as numerous college scholarships and prizes. Jia Wei also spent a year at The Queen’s College, Oxford, completing the BCL with distinction in 2016. He was awarded the Pump Court Tax Chambers Scholarship to support his graduate studies.

Before commencing pupillage, Jia Wei taught and examined undergraduate courses in property and trusts law at Cambridge and UCL.

Jia Wei is fluent in written and spoken Mandarin Chinese.

Jia Wei's expertise

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Commercial disputes

Jia Wei has a broad and varied commercial practice. He is comfortable working both as part of large teams, or in his own right.

Notable recent instructions include:

  • Raiffeisen Bank International v Scully Royalty. Acting for various defendants in civil fraud proceedings in the Grand Court of the Cayman Islands, involving claims over €40m under the Cayman Fraudulent Dispositions Law and in conspiracy. This includes two separate appeals on interlocutory matters before the Grand Court of the Cayman Islands (with John Wardell KC).
  • Chia Hsing Wang v Otaibi. Acting in an ongoing dispute between a private individual and his financial advisors about his substantial investments in various offshore investment funds in the Cayman Islands and the BVI (with John Wardell KC and Tom Roscoe).
  • Takhar v Gracefield Developments Limited. Acting successfully for the claimant in long-running claim to set aside a judgment obtained in 2010 on the basis that judgment had been procured by fraud (with John Wardell KC).
  • Otello Corporation ASA v Moore Freres & Company LLC & ors (Chancery Division). Acting for the defendants in relation to consequential matters arising out of order appointing a receiver over shares pursuant to s996 of the Companies Act 2006 (with Nikki Singla KC).
  • Acting in an LCIA arbitration for a client seeking damages of several hundred million pounds, arising from breaches of contract pertaining to the operation and ownership of a mine (with Alan Gourgey KC and Bobby Friedman).
  • Acting in unfair prejudice proceedings, in which the petitioners allege that the respondents froze them out of a care home business, and diverted business opportunities to other companies in their sole control (with Jack Watson).
  • Drafting proceedings alleging, inter alia, that senior employees of a design-and-build company had been paid bribes/secret commissions to falsely inflate invoices over the course of several years, and advising in relation to the parties’ disclosure obligation (with Zoë Barton KC).
  • Drafting proceedings alleging a multi-million pound fraud arising out of various interrelated agreements for the purchase of shares in a Swedish public company.
  • Preparing witness evidence in a derivative claim against the directors of a company, alleging unconscionable receipt of profit at the company’s expense, and to rescind the transfer of a hotel to a separate company controlled by said directors.
  • Advising various Malaysian shareholders as to potential unfair prejudice proceedings arising out of the alleged dilution of their shareholding in an English investment company.
  • Advising in relation to the recoverability of various losses arising out of the breach of a services agreement between a defence services company and an IT service provider, in  circumstances where said agreement contained a clause limiting the recovery of direct losses.
  • Acting successfully for the claimants in Dragon Associates Limited v Elevare London Limited, seeking repayment of fees owed in respect of services provided by a PR agency.
  • Acting successfully for the claimants in Peter Shakeshaft & Vin-X Limited v William Storey & Rich Energy Limited, concerning the scope of a director’s obligation to procure the transfer of his company’s shareholding to the claimants, and possible proprietary estoppels arising from representations to such effect.

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    Raiffeisen Bank part 2: Cayman Court of Appeal dismisses two jurisdiction challenges, providing guidance as to the Cayman FDA

    Commercial disputes, Banking and financial services, Civil fraud and asset recovery, Insolvency, International / offshore

    John Wardell KC | Tim Penny KC | Jamie Holmes | Caspar Bartscherer | Jia Wei Lee
    Monday 13 June 2022

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    Raiffeisen Bank part 1: Cayman Court of Appeal upholds €153m worldwide freezing injunctions

    Commercial disputes, Banking and financial services, Civil fraud and asset recovery, Insolvency, International / offshore

    Tim Penny KC | John Wardell KC | Jamie Holmes | Jia Wei Lee | Caspar Bartscherer
    Thursday 9 June 2022

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    Wilberforce Commercial Conference 2022

    Thursday 24 March 2022 | 9am - 5.20pm followed by drinks
    Kimpton Fitzroy Russell Square (and online via Zoom), London

    £195 + VAT | 5.0 CPD

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    WATCH: Arbitration Breakfast Briefing: Conflicts, bias and disclosure duties – where are we now?

    Thursday 11 March 2021 | 9am - 10am UK time
    Online, Zoom

    1.0 CPD

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Jia Wei's expertise

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Pensions

A large part of Jia Wei’s practice consists of contentious and non-contentious work. Since 2020, Jia Wei has combined his practice in Chambers with a consultancy role in the pensions and employment team at a Magic Circle law firm. He has, through that role, gained significant experience across a range of complex, high-value pensions work.

His recent experience includes:

  • Silentnight Group DB Pension Scheme. Acting for the Pensions Regulator in a long-running investigation into the pre-pack sale of the business and assets of Silentnight in 2011, and its impact on the pension scheme. The Regulator sought contribution notices against various members and executives of a US private equity house. The matter settled for £25m in March 2021 (with Keith Rowley KC, Mark Arnold KC, Tom Robinson and Rebecca Zaman).
  • Acting for the directors of the corporate trustees of a pension scheme in relation to a major regulatory investigation by the Pensions Regulator (with Tom Robinson).
  • Acting for the trustee in a complex regulatory investigation which presently remains confidential.
  • Advising a local council in relation to an complaint of maladministration made to the Pensions Ombudsman by the beneficiary of a public sector scheme.
  • Advising in relation to various proprietary claims that could be brought by trustees of an employee benefits trust to reclaim compound interest on overpaid tax (with Fenner Moeran KC).

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Property

Jia Wei regularly acts as sole and junior counsel in property disputes.

His notable recent experience includes:

  • Advising in relation to the builders’ and developers’ liability for corroded chilled water pipework in a multi-million pound development (with Julian Greenhill KC).
  • Acting successfully for the claimant in seeking an order for sale of property formerly used as a family home.
  • Acting successfully for the claimant developers in obtaining injunctive relief against a defendant who was obstructing the accessway to a construction site.
  • Advising in relation to a boundary dispute. Dispute raised complex questions regarding the possibility of acquiring title by adverse possession over a public highway before the passage of the Highways Act.
  • Advising a lessor as to the application of the transitional provisions of the New Electronic Communications Code to the validity of various s31 notices served upon its lessees.
  • Advising various leaseholders as to the merits of a potential challenge to a final account of service charges demand by the landlord pertaining to various major works done on a block of flats, on the basis that the landlord had failed to comply with its consultation obligations.
  • Advising in relation to issues of standing and proper service in a claim for the determination of interim rent under the Landlord and Tenant Act 1954.

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Trusts, probate and estates: contentious

Jia Wei taught and examined undergraduate courses in trusts law at the University of Cambridge and University College London. He is currently developing a wide trusts and probate practice. He is also a contributor to the chapter on professional trusteeship in the Professional Negligence and Liability (Simpson ed.)

His recent experience includes:

  • Advising the trustees of a large offshore trust in relation to potential claims in mistake, misrepresentation and under the Re Hastings-Bass jurisdiction arising out of historic dispositions made to the guardian of various beneficiaries.
  • Acting for a court-appointed deputy in confidential Court of Protection proceedings relating to the management, investigation and disposition of a protected person’s assets.
  • Acting in relation to consequential matters arising out of a multi-million pound divorce award made against the client. Advised on trust-related aspects of the proceedings.
  • Advising the trustees of a multi-million dollar Guernsey settlement as to any claims in restitution, misrepresentation, breach of trust or mistake that may lie against the beneficiary’s guardian.
  • Advising and drafting a counterclaim in professional negligence proceedings arising out of the Royal Court’s refusal in 2018 to reconstitute a sizeable trust fund notwithstanding a finding that the trustees had acted in breach of trust.
  • Assisting in the preparation of an expert’s opinion regarding a discretionary beneficiary’s locus standi in the context an investment-treaty arbitration.
  • Advising the trustees of a trust over land, settled for the benefit of a rugby club, as to the impact on such trust of the dissolution of the rugby club, and its subsequent reconstitution as a limited company.

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Jia Wei's Details

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Registered name: Mr Jia Wei Lee
VAT number: 305729603

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Qualifications and Appointments

  • BA in Law, University of Cambridge (Starred First Class)
  • BCL, The Queen’s College, Oxford (Distinction)
  • BPTC, BPP University (Very Competent)
  • Awarded a number of university prizes and scholarship, including the Clifford Chance CJ Hamson Prize for Aspects of Obligations, the Fairest Prize, and the Pump Court Tax Chambers Scholarship
  • Taught the law of trusts at University College London and Selwyn College, Cambridge
  • Lord Denning and Eastham Scholar of Lincoln’s Inn
  • Called to the New York State Bar

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