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Jocelyn Plant

Call: 2025 (Ontario, 2018; New York, 2021)


Jocelyn Plant joined Chambers in 2026 following the successful completion of her pupillage and accepts instructions across all areas of commercial law and competition law.

Jocelyn was educated in Canada and the UK, is also qualified in New York and Ontario, and has practised as a litigator in New York. Prior to joining Chambers, Jocelyn worked as a senior litigation associate at Sullivan & Cromwell LLP in New York (2019-2023). In that role, she represented and advised corporations and financial institutions in connection with complex litigation, internal inquiries, and regulatory and criminal investigations.

Jocelyn previously was a judicial law clerk to Justice Rosalie Silberman Abella at the Supreme Court of Canada (2018-2019) and to Justices David Tysoe and John Savage at the British Columbia Court of Appeal (2017-2018).

Jocelyn’s legal writing has been published in English and Canadian law journals. She is co-author of the forthcoming expanded and retitled second edition of Professor Andrew Higgins’s Legal Professional Privilege for Corporations (OUP 2014).

Jocelyn holds a Bachelor of Civil Law (Distinction) from the University of Oxford (where she was awarded course prizes in Competition Law, Conflict of Laws, and Principles of Financial Regulation) and a Juris Doctor from the University of British Columbia (where she was her graduating class’s Gold Medalist).

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  • Assisted (during pupillage) in a contractual dispute concerning a contested termination payment and additional financial consequences following the early termination of a supply agreement.
  • Assisted (during pupillage) in a sale of goods claim where the goods were alleged to be noncompliant with contractual specifications.
  • Assisted (during pupillage) in a tort claim for damage to property following the spread of a fire to neighbouring land and property.

As a New York attorney:

  • Represented a shipping terminal in contractual dispute following the breach of a terminal services agreement by a global shipping firm.

As a New York attorney:

  • Represented a major financial institution in obtaining a resolution with the SEC following the sale of unregistered securities, and in connection with follow-on litigation alleging securities fraud.
  • Represented a major financial institution in obtaining coordinated resolutions with the DOJ and CFTC resolving investigations of manipulative trading involving precious metals futures contracts.
  • Represented a major financial institution in defending against a putative securities fraud class action alleging that the bank misled shareholders in connection with its work for a sovereign wealth fund.
  • Assisted (during pupillage) in a dispute involving the method of proper service in the United States under the CPR and Hague Service Convention.
  • Assisted (during pupillage) in a LCIA arbitration involving disputed termination payment and additional financial consequences following the early termination of a supply agreement.
  • Assisted (during pupillage) in a reinsurance arbitration concerning the application of a follow settlements clause.
  • Assisted (during pupillage) in a LMAA arbitration involving contested hire and other losses following vessel detention.
  • WRBC Corporate Member Ltd v AXA XL Syndicate Ltd & Ors [2026] EWHC 939 (Comm): Assisted (during pupillage) in reinsurance claim in connection with aggregation issues following Covid-19 contingency business losses.
  • Assisted (during pupillage) in a reinsurance dispute concerning the application of a follow settlements clause.

As a New York attorney:

  • Represented a major bank in connection with antitrust (and tort-based) class actions and individual actions related to alleged benchmark interest rate manipulations (g. LIBOR).
  • Assisted (during pupillage) in a charterparty dispute involving contested hire and other losses following vessel detention.

As a New York attorney:

  • Represented a shipping terminal in contractual dispute following the breach of a terminal services agreement by a global shipping firm.

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Legal Professional Privilege in the Common Law World: A Guide to Six Major Jurisdictions.  2nd ed. Oxford: Oxford University Press, in preparation (with Andrew Higgins and John Yap).

“The shareholder rule abolished: Jardine Strategic Ltd v Oasis Investments II Master Fund and 80 Others (No.2) [2025] UKPC 34.” Civil Justice Quarterly 44, no. 4 (2025): 233 (with John Yap)

“The Shareholder Rule Abolished?: Aabar Holdings Sarl v Glencore Plc & Ors [2024] EWHC 3046 (Comm).” Civil Justice Quarterly 44, no. 2 (2025): 113-123 (with John Yap)

“The Hague Convention and Transnational Custody Disputes.” Family Court Review 59, no. 2 (2021): 350-370 (with Rosalie Silberman Abella).

  • BCL, University of Oxford (Magdalen College) (2024) (Distinction)
  • JD, University of British Columbia (2017)
  • MA, University of British Columbia (Fine Arts, Art History) (2014)
  • BA, University of British Columbia (Art History, History) (2012)

Select Scholarships and Awards:

  • BCL Prizes: Competition Law, Conflicts of Law, Principles of Financial Regulation (University of Oxford)
  • Oxford-Feltham Graduate Scholarship (University of Oxford, Magdalen College)
  • Gold medalist, highest cumulative GPA in JD graduating class (University of British Columbia)
  • Wesbrook Scholar (University of British Columbia)
  • Course Prizes / Highest Grade: Conflict of Laws, Securities Regulation, Trusts, Topics in Criminal Justice (Sentencing), Taxation, Intellectual Property, Business Organizations, Advanced Trial Advocacy (University of British Columbia)
  • Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada (SSHRC) Joseph-Armand Bombardier Canada Graduate Scholarship (University of British Columbia)

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