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Dionne Gilbert

Dionne is a Partner in Jersey and a highly skilled litigator with 20 years' experience offering an impressive range of private client expertise to the firm's UHNW client base. Her work focuses on: complex and cross border family matters, advising and representing clients in high value divorce and financial remedy proceedings involving on and offshore assets; child law matters including complex relocation cases and residency matters; negotiating pre-nuptial and post-nuptial agreements on behalf of clients wishing to protect pre-marital assets, and advising on the protection of family wealth; civil disputes, including contractual disputes, professional negligence and personal injury as well as Landlord and Tenant issues. Dionne was involved in the leading case in Jersey on establishing the prescription period for Voisinage, a customary law doctrine; contentious probate matters; corporate disputes, including asset tracing and enforcement of foreign judgments; criminal litigation, having appeared in a large number of high profile cases, including the first ever prosecution for money laundering in Jersey which went to the Privy Council for determination; cases involving capacity issues including court appointments of Case Delegate (acting to manage the financial affairs of an individual lacking capacity - broadly speaking, the Jersey equivalent to Guardianships) in two particularly complex cases and cases involving the appointment of Tuteur to deal with a minor's property. · Collas Crill

JerseyFamily / Divorce, Private Client / Trusts

About

Partner in Jersey with 20 years' experience and a focus on private client work for UHNW individuals. A seasoned litigator advising on cross-border family and high-value divorce matters, contentious probate, asset tracing and enforcement, criminal litigation and capacity-related proceedings.

Practice areas

Family / DivorcePrivate Client / TrustsCivil LitigationProbateCorporate / Commercial LitigationCriminal LitigationReal Estate

Office

Jersey

Collas Crill · Dionne is a Partner in Jersey and a highly skilled litigator with 20 years' experience offering an impressive range of private client expertise to the firm's UHNW client base. Her work focuses on: complex and cross border family matters, advising and representing clients in high value divorce and financial remedy proceedings involving on and offshore assets; child law matters including complex relocation cases and residency matters; negotiating pre-nuptial and post-nuptial agreements on behalf of clients wishing to protect pre-marital assets, and advising on the protection of family wealth; civil disputes, including contractual disputes, professional negligence and personal injury as well as Landlord and Tenant issues. Dionne was involved in the leading case in Jersey on establishing the prescription period for Voisinage, a customary law doctrine; contentious probate matters; corporate disputes, including asset tracing and enforcement of foreign judgments; criminal litigation, having appeared in a large number of high profile cases, including the first ever prosecution for money laundering in Jersey which went to the Privy Council for determination; cases involving capacity issues including court appointments of Case Delegate (acting to manage the financial affairs of an individual lacking capacity - broadly speaking, the Jersey equivalent to Guardianships) in two particularly complex cases and cases involving the appointment of Tuteur to deal with a minor's property.

Jersey

Expertise

High-net-worth (UHNW) private clientsCross-border family law and high-value divorcePre-nuptial and post-nuptial agreements and wealth protectionContentious probate and capacity matters (Case Delegate/Tuteur appointments)Asset tracing and enforcement of foreign judgmentsCriminal litigation including Jersey money-laundering prosecution history

Education

  • University of Buckingham (LLB Hons)

Admissions

  • Called to the English Bar (1996)
  • Called to the Jersey Bar (2000)