Kelly Pennifer

 

Kelly has been recommended in directories and legal journals for a number of years as one of the leading juniors in the North in the field of commercial litigation. She has been described by Chambers & Partners as an “independent minded and hard working advocate with a direct and pleasant manner” who is always “quick to master the case” and she is recognised as “developing an increasingly pronounced market standing…” in this area.

 

 

Kelly’s particular expertise, and primary area of practice, is commercial contract dispute resolution, including, in particular:

o        agency/commercial agency;

o        sale and carriage of goods (domestic and international);

o        construction (including adjudication and arbitration);

o        credit and suretyship;

o        insurance;

o        restraint of trade, breach of fiduciary duty and confidential information.

 

Kelly is frequently instructed on matters requiring urgent injunctive relief (including freezing injunctions, search orders, restrictive covenant, breach of fiduciary duty and confidentiality injunctions) and commentators to Chambers have particularly highlighted her strength in this area.  Most notable of such cases is Cream Holdings Ltd & Ors. Banerjee & Liverpool Daily Post & Echo [2004] UKHL 44, [2005] 1AC in which Kelly appeared in the House of Lords as junior counsel for Cream.

 

 

Another of Kelly’s fortes is employment law, covering the full range of disputes falling within the remit of the Employment Tribunals. Recently, Kelly has been involved in the rash of equal pay claims brought by current and former female Local Government employees (having been instructed by both Local Councils and complainants). She also acts for the G4S group of companies on the more involved of the complaints brought against those companies.

 

LLB – King’s College London

Maitrise-en-Droit – University of Law Paris II, Sorbonne

 

Kelly qualified as a mediator in 2007 and is currently a member of the Manchester TC Court Users’ Committee