January Scott LL.B. (Hons) Hull (First Class Honours), Call 2000

January Scott did technical, senior managerial and consultancy work for 20 years in the IT industry before deciding to retrain for a career at the Bar. She had first-hand experience of commercial contracts and employment law during her time in her former corporate environment.

She undertook her Law degree on a part-time basis to allow herself to carry on working. On successful completion of this and the Bar Vocational Course she then joined Wilberforce Chambers as a civil law pupil. She became a tenant at the end of pupillage.

January regularly appears in the Employment Tribunal and her practice to date has involved a wide range of unfair dismissal, sexual discrimination, disability discrimination and TUPE cases.

As a result of her own interest in and wide-ranging experience of equestrian matters, and her membership of the Equine and Animal Lawyers Association and the British Horse Society, January is regularly instructed in equine related cases, in particular with regard to contractual disputes and personal injury claims.

She also has a large practice property and specialises, in particular, in trusts of land cases, boundary and easement disputes and landlord and tenant matters. She has a particular interest in cohabitation cases.

January's practice includes commercial contract cases and she has a special interest in I.T. related disputes. During the course of her business career she acted as mediator in contractual disputes between parties involving the supply of computer hardware and software.

She undertakes personal injury work on behalf of both claimants and defendants, in particular in the areas of employer’s liability, occupier’s liability and local authority liability with regards to highways.

Professional Reputation

  • Specialises in Ancillary Relief and other financial issues and subsequently does not accept instruction in any other areas of Family Law
  • Civil Law areas include property, commercial, employment and equine law

Qualifications & Appointments

  • 1994-1999 University of Hull, LLB(Hons)
  • 1999-2000 Nottingham Trent Law School, Bar Vocational Course
  • First Class winner of The Prince Delphus Odubanjo Price in Law 1997
  • The Professor FW Taylor Fund Prize in Law 1997
  • The Andrew Marvell Jackson Fund Prize in Law 1999
  • Awarded the major Prince of Wales Scholarship of £10,000 by Gray’s Inn
  • Appointed Junior Counsel to the Crown in November 2007

Memberships

  • North Eastern Circuit
  • Property Bar Association
  • Employment Law Bar Association
  • Equine and Animal Lawyers Association