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, […]

On 5 February 2018, The Lawyer revealed its Top 20 Cases for the coming year. Eight members of Essex Court Chambers were named in the article, each acting on the featured cases. Further details on the featured cases and barristers from Essex Court involved are below:  Hellas Telecommunications (Luxembourg) II SCA (‘Hellas II’) v Apax Partners […]

Essex Court Chambers’ Richard Millett QC and Toby Landau QC have been selected, in a list of only 12 barristers, for The Lawyer’s Hot 100 list 2018. The legal publication today unveiled its Hot 100 list for 2018, which recognises the profession’s brightest stars “acting on the most significant matters, disrupting the industry with their creative […]

The members of Essex Court Chambers are delighted to announce that on 1 January 2018, Richard Hoyle became Chair of the Young Bar. He will undertake this part time role in addition to his full time practice at Essex Court Chambers. All barristers within their first seven years of practice are considered to be part […]

Following the release of the results of the Queen’s Counsel appointments 2017, Philippa Hopkins, Edmund King, Jern-Fei Ng and Professor Dan Sarooshi have been informed that they will be appointed to Silk at a ceremony to be held on Monday 26th February 2018 in Westminster Hall. The members of Essex Court Chambers warmly congratulate all four […]