Members of Chambers are pleased to announce that Sophia Hurst has joined Essex Court Chambers. Sophia is a busy junior barrister with a specialist commercial chancery practice encompassing a range of commercial litigation, civil fraud and asset recovery, shareholder/joint venture disputes, banking and financial services, and contentious trusts litigation. Sophia was called the bar in […]
On Friday 9 July 2021, Judgment was handed down in Markel Bermuda v Caesars Entertainment [2021] EWHC 1931 (Comm) by Mr Justice Bryan in the Commercial Court, following an expedited trial. Bryan J granted a final anti-suit injunction to the claimant insurer in support of a London arbitration clause. The Court also ordered rectification of […]
Mrs Justice Cockerill handed down judgment on 2 July 2021 in VTB Commodities Trading DAC v JSC Antipinsky Refinery & ors. [2021] EWHC 1758 (Comm), concluding that the English courts did not have jurisdiction to hear the claims brought by VTB Commodities Trading DAC (“VTB”) against Sberbank. VTB had asserted claims in excess of US$300 […]
A UK Employment Tribunal (“ET”) has handed down judgment on the previously untested issue whether a party serving ET proceedings on a foreign State in relation to employment by that State’s armed forces of persons within the UK was required to follow the service provisions in s. 12 of the State Immunity Act 1978 (“SIA”), […]
Members of Chambers are pleased to announce that Ben Juratowitch QC will join Essex Court Chambers on Monday 1 November 2021. Ben is a partner at Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer LLP and is Head of the firm’s Public International Law practice. Ben took silk in 2017 and is also a member of the Paris Bar. He […]
The Supreme Court has today handed down judgment in General Dynamics v Libya [2021] UKSC 22. General Dynamics seeks to enforce an arbitration award of over £16 million plus interest and costs made in 2016 by an ICC tribunal against Libya. On 21 June 2018, it issued proceedings in the High Court to enforce the […]
On Monday 14 June 2021, Sir Jeremy Lionel Cooke IJ issued a reserved judgment in the case of Singapore Airlines Ltd. v CSDS Aircraft Sales & Leasing Inc. [2021] SGHC(I) 3. This judgment followed a short trial conducted remotely in the Singapore International Commercial Court (SICC) during May which dealt with issues of liability in […]
On Monday 14 June 2021, the Privy Council handed down judgment in Betamax Ltd v State Trading Corporation (Mauritius) [2021] UKPC 14. The case has important ramifications for the extent to which a court can set aside or refuse to enforce an international arbitration award on the basis that it conflicts with public policy. The appeal was brought […]
On 9 June 2021, Freedman J handed down judgment in Phoenix Interior Design Ltd v (1) Henley Homes Plc and (2) Union Street Holdings Ltd [2021] EWHC 1573 (QB), which was tried over two weeks in the Queen’s Bench Division. The case concerned interior design services supplied by the Claimant for the refurbishment and fitting […]
The members of Essex Court Chambers regret to announce with the greatest sadness that Lord Millett passed away on 27 May 2021. Lord Millett was a Judge of the Chancery Division of the High Court from 1986 to 1994, a Lord Justice of Appeal from 1994 to 1998 and a Lord of Appeal in Ordinary […]
Freedman J has today given judgment in relation to an anti-suit injunction sought in Bilal Khalifeh v. Blom Bank S.A.L. [2021] EWHC 1502. These proceedings concern an attempt by a depositor in a Lebanese bank to obtain repayment of the credit balances of his US$ accounts with the bank. The exclusive jurisdiction of the English […]
On 27 May 2021 the Commercial Court handed down judgment in TP ICAP Ltd v Nex Group Ltd [2021] EWHC 1375 (Comm), striking out large parts of a claim for breach of warranty, indemnities and declaratory relief relating to the acquisition by Tullett Prebon of the voice broking business of ICAP plc, said to arise out […]
