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Sue Pearmain

Senior Associate

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+44 (0)1534 818 076

Address

13-14 Esplanade
 St Helier
 JE1 1BD
 Channel Islands
 Jersey

 

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Sue Pearmain is a senior associate and an advocate with the Personal Law-Criminal team in the Litigation & Insolvency department. She joined Appleby in 2006, having previously been a partner for 20 years with a major Jersey-based international law firm.

Sue has specialised in criminal and family law advocacy and has extensive experience in all the criminal and family courts in Jersey. She has a good working relationship with all those who work for, or appear in various capacities before, these Courts. She is also a practising notary public.

She is currently Chairman of the Jersey Advisory Council on the Misuse of Drugs. She is also a committee member of the Jersey Law Society and a member of the Jersey Family Law Association. For many years she was on the Board of Examiners for Jersey Advocates and solicitors, examining on family law and succession, and she was regularly an examiner for those wishing to qualify in Jersey as notaries public.

In May 2011, she was elected by her colleagues for a 3 year term as the Bâtonnier of the Jersey Bar to lead it and oversee its interests.

expertise

Recent examples of matters include acting:

  • In 5 Assize or Jurat trials in the Royal court in which she has appeared for the accused. As at February 2011 Sue has had four acquittals and in the remaining case the accused (a former house parent at the highly publicised Haut de la Garenne children's home) was acquitted of the more serious charges of historic child abuse for which he had been prosecuted
  • For the appellant in January 2011 before the Jersey Court of Appeal when it gave rulings as to the criteria for sentencing by Jersey courts in cases of making indecent images of children and how they differed from England
  • In Re W [2010] JRC149A on behalf of a grandfather who had been prosecuted for offences against his grandchildren. The Court dismissed the proceedings brought before the Criminal Court by the guardian ad litem in public law family proceedings for disclosure of police material in his prosecution, and ordered that the proceedings should be commenced in the Family Division
  • For the accused in The Attorney General v Forno [2010] JRC109, where she raised 'an interesting point of law in relation to the offence of inciting the commission of a criminal offence', as a result of which the judge defined the elements of the offence of incitement
  • For the guardian ad litem in public law proceedings in The matter of X [2009]JRC017 when the Court dispensed with the consent of the mother and freed two children for adoption