The Legal 500 UK Bar Guide 2024 was released today, Wednesday 4th October. Members of Chambers have received 32 new rankings across 12 practice areas, bringing the total number of rankings to 208. Special mention is given to the following members who have received a ranking in the Rising Star category: Stephen Donnelly in Tax: […]
After being shortlisted for multiple awards, members of Essex Court Chambers are delighted to have won three awards at The Legal 500 Bar Awards 2023 which were held at the London Hilton on Park Lane yesterday evening. The awards recognise sets of chambers and barristers who are at the top of the profession as identified […]
Alison Macdonald KC has been appointed a Fellow of All Souls College, Oxford, from 1 October 2023. During her fellowship, for a period of two years, Alison will convene a range of seminars in the field of public international law, drawing together experts from Oxford and beyond to address issues including the response of international […]
Members of Chambers are delighted to welcome two tenants to Chambers today. Oliver Goldstein and Ellen Tims have accepted invitations to join after successful completion of pupillage earlier this year. During their pupillage they experienced a broad range of practice areas in line with Chambers’ profile, overseen by senior pupillage supervisors. Congratulations to Oliver and […]
In an ex tempore judgment given on 31 August 2023, Mr Justice Bryan sitting remotely in the Commercial Court granted an interim negative anti-suit injunction (‘ASI’ for short) under section 37 of the Senior Courts Act 1981 to enforce the applicant’s foreign-seat arbitration rights in the context of civil proceedings commenced by the defendant against the claimant […]
At a hearing on 7 September 2023, the Court of Appeal (Nugee, Snowden, Falk LJJ) allowed an appeal by the claimant against the decision of Mr Justice Bright to refuse an interim anti-suit injunction (ASI) under s.37 of the Senior Courts Act 1981. The case concerns an arbitration agreement presumptively governed by English law which […]
On 20 September 2023, the Supreme Court handed down judgment in Republic of Mozambique v Privinvest Shipbuilding SAL (Holding) & Ors [2023] UKSC 32. The Supreme Court (Lords Hodge, Lloyd-Jones, Hamblen, Leggatt and Richards) unanimously allowed the Republic of Mozambique’s appeal, in long-running and complex litigation of an alleged c. US$2 billion fraud, which has become known as the “tuna […]
Members of Essex Court Chambers are deeply saddened to announce that Professor Alan Boyle passed away peacefully today. Alan became Professor of Public International at the University of Edinburgh in 1995 and joined Essex Court Chambers in 2005. He was widely recognised as one of the leading figures in international environmental law and the law […]
On 18 July 2023, Charlesworth J of the Federal Court of Australia handed down judgment in Barngarla Determination Aboriginal Corporation RNTBC v Minister for Resources [2023] FCA 809. The claim consisted of a challenge to the constitutional validity of the National Radioactive Waste Management Act 2012 (Cth) (“the NRWM Act”), as well as two applications […]
Members of Essex Court Chambers are delighted to announce that chambers and members have been shortlisted for six awards at the Chambers UK Bar Awards 2023. The awards recognise sets of chambers and members who are at the top of the profession as identified by extensive objective research. Essex Court Chambers has been shortlisted as […]
On 24 August 2023, Mr Justice Robin Knowles CBE granted an interim negative anti-suit injunction (‘ASI’ for short) to enforce the arbitration rights of the claimant as a matter of English law in the context of civil proceedings commenced against it by the defendant in the Arbitrazh Court in the Russian Federation. Those first-seised substantive […]
On 1st September 2023, the Court of Appeal handed-down judgment in The MSC Flaminia (No. 2) [2023] EWCA Civ 1007, upholding the decision of Mr Justice Andrew Baker ([2022] EWHC 2746 (Admlty)) albeit on different grounds. The case arises from a casualty on board the MSC Flaminia on 14th July 2012 while the ship was in mid-Atlantic en route from Charleston, […]
