Nicola Diggle

Nicola leads the Blake Morgan Privy Council appeals team and is a Consultant in our London litigation group. Formerly a partner at Blake Morgan and general commercial litigator for UK and international cases, she now specialises in appeals to the Privy Council. Nicola has over 10 years of experience assisting overseas attorneys and their clients with appeals to the Privy Council in London from Permission to Appeal stage through to hearings and costs.

Main areas of practice

Nicola’s main area of practice is now acting as a Privy Council agent to assist overseas attorneys and clients with appeals to the Privy Council in London from foreign jurisdictions. Nicola has been practicing as a Privy Council agent since 2012. She has acted in Privy Council appeals from multiple Privy Council jurisdictions including the BVI, Cayman Islands, Turks & Caicos, Anguilla, Grenada, Trinidad & Tobago, Gibraltar, Guernsey and Mauritius.

Nicola is also highly recommended as a commercial disputes lawyer with over 20 years’ experience and specialist expertise in:

• Commercial contract claims
• IT and Software disputes
• Director and shareholder disputes
• Warranty claims
• Commercial mediation
• Schemes of Arrangement

Expertise

• Litigation & Dispute Resolution
• Privy Council
• Technology Disputes
• Corporate & Shareholder Disputes
• Arbitration

Career

Nicola qualified and previously practiced at Herbert Smith Freehills in their international litigation team which included secondments to the Herbert Smith Paris office and an international technology company’s in-house legal team. Nicola joined Blake Morgan in 2006.

She is a Solicitor Advocate with Higher Rights of Audience and has appeared in the High Court for clients. She is also an ADR Group Accredited Mediator.

Nicola is a contributing editor of The Caribbean Civil Court Practice 2024 (Third Edition).