Hugh Mercer QC and Peter Webster, instructed by Exeme Avocats, Bordeaux, represented the City of Bordeaux in the successful recovery from London of four 14th and 15th century altar panels stolen in the 1980s. The Nottinghamshire alabaster panels had probably originally arrived in Bordeaux in the Middle Ages as payment for a shipment of wine. The […]
Sam Wordsworth QC was invited to give expert evidence on 4 September to the ‘no deal’ financial obligations enquiry conducted by the House of Lords sub-committee on EU financial affairs. The evidence can be seen here. The questions posed by the committee focused on whether the UK has financial obligations to pay into the EU […]
Essex Court Chambers are delighted to have received the following nominations for the Chambers UK Bar Awards 2019: International Arbitration – Set of the Year Insurance – Set of the Year Joe Smouha QC – Commercial Litigation Silk of the Year James Willan – Banking Junior of the Year Tom Ford – Commercial Litigation Junior […]
In the 2019 edition of the Chambers & Partners UK Bar directory, Essex Court Chambers gained a new set ranking in Chancery: Commercial law. To celebrate this recognition and to showcase the work that members have been doing for many years in this area, members of Essex Court Chambers are holding a Chancery Commercial focused […]
In a £60 million dispute between the AMEX group and HMRC, the Tax Tribunal has held in favour of AMEX. The case raised the vexed and perennial question of analysing triangular and linear supply situations, where the issue is whether A makes its supplies to B or C, or both. It also involved the analysis […]
Richard Hoyle appeared for 3M and Arizant Healthcare in securing the enforcement of several Letters of Request under the Hague Convention on the Taking of Evidence Abroad, against a number of leading medical practitioners in the UK who had either participated in or conducted medical studies related to the use of a medical warming device […]
Members of Chambers warmly congratulate Martin Griffiths QC on his appointment as a Justice of the High Court, with effect from 1st October. Called to the Bar by Inner Temple in 1986, Martin took Silk in 2006. He was appointed as a Recorder in 2009 and authorised to sit as a Deputy High Court Judge […]
The Members of Essex Court Chambers are pleased to announce that Edward Brown has been appointed to the Attorney General’s ‘A’ Panel of Counsel to the Crown and both Stephen Donnelly and Jackie McArthur have been appointed to the Attorney General’s ‘C’ Panel. Edward is a very experienced trial advocate and regularly handles substantial cases […]
On 3 July the Supreme Court handed down judgment in Egon Zehnder v Tillman [2019] UKSC 32. Tillman is the first employee competition case to be considered at the highest level in more than a century. The Supreme Court judgment, which reformulates the test for severance, is likely to be of considerable practical importance for employers, employees and commercial parties litigating […]
On Tuesday 25 June 2019 the Commercial Court (Andrew Baker J) gave a further judgment in the Gruber & Ors v AIG litigation. The judgment examines the principles which govern the application of the doctrine of Henderson v Henderson abuse to different stages in the same proceedings, and also contains useful guidance as to the […]
Members of Chambers are delighted to welcome Tim Akkouh as a new tenant. Called in 2004, Tim is a leading junior with substantial experience of civil fraud, commercial chancery and heavyweight commercial litigation. His reported cases include JSC BTA Bank v Ablyazov, Pinchuk v Bogolyubov, Mezhprom v Pugachev and Republic of Djibouti v Boreh. Tim […]
Essex Court Chambers has been named Chambers of the Year 2019 at The Lawyer Awards, which took place on 25 June at Grosvenor House. Senior Clerk Joe Ferrigno and members of his team collected the award, commended for the recent clerking restructure which involved several internal promotions. Members of Chambers were accredited for the consistency […]
