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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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).
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