Essex Court Chambers has been awarded the Who’s Who Legal Set of the Year Award for 2018, in a ceremony held on 8 May 2018 at Plaisterers’ Hall. This award is in recognition of the exceptional calibre of work undertaken by members of Chambers over the past year. Last month, Essex Court featured at top of the list […]

Signia Wealth and the entrepreneur John Caudwell have won their claims against former Chief Executive, Nathalie Dauriac. Signia Wealth and Mr Caudwell claimed declarations that Ms Dauriac had committed acts of gross misconduct in relation to expenses claims and was a bad leaver for the purpose of Signia’s Articles of Association. The Court (Marcus Smith […]

Jeremy Brier has today been appointed a Recorder by the Queen on the advice of the Lord Chancellor, the Right Honourable David Gauke MP, and the Lord Chief Justice of England and Wales, The Right Honourable The Lord Burnett of Maldon. Jeremy will be deployed to sit in the Criminal jurisdiction on the South Eastern […]

David Craig QC and Edward Brown appeared in the DIFC Court of First Instance in the first urgent application to enforce post-termination restraints.  The claim arose in a dispute between international commodities trader, ED&F Man with one of its traders and a competitor. All Defendants have given undertakings over to a trial in the DIFC […]

Essex Court Chambers has come top of the list of Leading Sets for 2018 in Who’s Who Legal’s latest analysis. Following thousands of interviews conducted and out of over 100 featured sets, members of Essex Court Chambers featured in the most listings in the country this year, with 72 in total. The full listings are […]

Essex Court Chambers is hosting its annual Student Open Day, intended to give an introduction to Chambers and working at the Commercial Bar. Members of Essex Court welcomed a group of undergraduates this morning from a range of universities and undergraduate subjects, for a day of workshop sessions on advocacy skills, as well as talks […]

In a judgment handed down today, two former executive directors of Lloyds Bank have succeeded in their application for summary judgment for an award of shares. Mr Daniels and Mr Tate sought an order for the transfer of shares that they claimed were due to them under a long tem incentive plan with the Bank. […]

Essex Court Chambers is currently accepting applications for tenancy from practitioners at the Bar of approximately 8 years’ call or above with established commercial practices. Click here for further information.

Alongside his full time practice, in his role as Chair of the Young Bar for 2018, Richard Hoyle has been actively involved in organising the work of the Young Barristers’ Committee and contributing to the ongoing activities of the Bar Council. Richard wrote an article for the February edition of Counsel Magazine about raising the […]

Members of Chambers are pleased to announce that David Craig QC has been appointed as a Recorder. Out of 2,500 applications in this round, 133 appointments have been made. David will sit part-time hearing criminal cases in the Crown Courts on the South Eastern Circuit, with his appointment taking effect from 4 April 2018. David […]

On 2 March 2018, Mr Justice Bryan handed down judgment in a landmark investment treaty case between GPF GP S.à.r.l and the Republic of Poland. The applicant (GPF) successfully set aside an investor-state award on jurisdiction rendered by an arbitral tribunal sitting in London (under the Stockholm Chamber of Commerce rules) pursuant to section 67 of […]

40 individual members of Essex Court Chambers have been recognised across 13 practice areas in the latest edition of the Chambers Global Guide 2018, following its release on Friday 16 February. Chambers features in a total of 6 ‘ranked departments’, listing members of the set as global specialists in the following practice areas: International Arbitration, […]