Joe Smouha QC is widely recognised as one of the leading silks at the Commercial Bar, “firmly established in the super league” as one of the “most complete QCs” and “a standout Silk”. His high profile practice spans a vast array of fields in international and domestic commercial law. He appears regularly in the High […]
MARTIN GRIFFITHS QC has a general commercial practice. He is an experienced lead trial advocate in all divisions of the High Court and is a member of COMBAR, the Chancery Bar Association and a former committee member of the Employment Law Bar Association. Martin is regularly instructed to bring a fresh look at cases in […]
Chris Smith has a broad based practice covering all aspects of domestic and international commercial work, with particular emphasis on wet and dry shipping, professional negligence and related areas such as marine and non marine insurance and reinsurance. Chris’ practice involves advisory work, mediation, arbitration in England and Wales and abroad, and litigation in the […]
Huw Davies QC is an experienced advocate with “an incredibly impressive style and approach” and “very user friendly”. He specialises as an advocate in substantial commercial disputes both domestic and international generally leading a team of junior counsel. He has acted as co-counsel with overseas lawyers on numerous occasions (India; Malaysia; New York; Singapore) and […]
Ian Hunter has a broad-based commercial practice in line with Chambers’ profile. A major part of his practice is concerned with arbitration both as advocate and as arbitrator. As a junior Barrister he was involved in a large number of shipping and construction arbitrations. Since taking silk he has been instructed in many arbitrations, both […]
Simon Crookenden has an engineering background having studied Mechanical Sciences at Cambridge. He started his career in aircraft engineering and then worked in commercial management with Unilever plc and Express Dairies Ltd between 1969 and 1974. Following his transfer to the bar his early career drew on his engineering expertise. He was involved with a […]
Mark Templeman appears regularly as an advocate in international arbitration, the Commercial Court and the Court of Appeal, and has also appeared in the Privy Council. His areas of practice include insurance and reinsurance (marine and non-marine), shipping, arbitration, banking, commercial fraud, commodities, sale of goods and letter of credit disputes. He is a CEDR […]
