Hugh Mercer QC appeared as counsel for the Ministry of Justice on the issue of whether the Supreme Court had jurisdiction to hear an appeal against a refusal to enforce a Romanian judgment under the Brussels II Revised Regulation. The Ministry’s submissions with regard to the absence of jurisdiction were upheld. Access the full text […]

In a Judgment of 10 June 2016, the General Court of the European Union annulled EU sanctions against Mr Oleksandr Klymenko, the ex-Minister for Revenue and Duties of Ukraine. In April 2014, Mr Klymenko was subjected to restrictive EU sanctions, including the freezing of assets, on the basis that he was allegedly under investigation in […]

Professor Dan Sarooshi, a barrister practising at Essex Court Chambers with particular specialism in public international law, and Robert Volterra of Volterra Fietta have launched a new legal blog , entitled “Foreign States in English Courts”. The blog is intended to provide a newsfeed of concise, informative case summaries of recent and important English court […]

Andrew Hochhauser QC and Paul Stanley QC have been appointed to the Board of Governors at the newly established Inns of Court College of Advocacy (ICCA), along with former member of Essex Court Chambers, The Honourable Mrs Justice Andrews DBE. ICCA will act of behalf of all four Inns of Court in the development of education […]

Reasserting the confidentiality of arbitration proceedings and the absence of any power on the part of the arbitrators or the Court to order consolidation, the Commercial Court has refused an insured’s application for the appointment of a common third arbitrator across a series of arbitrations. The insured had commenced said arbitrations against separate insurers subscribing […]

Tim Eicke QC and Edward Brown, instructed by Clarkson Wright & Jakes Limited, appeared for Amoena (UK) Limited in the Supreme Court on 7 June 2016 against HMRC. The appeal was the first Customs Classification dispute to be heard by the Supreme Court and concerns the classification of post-surgery mastectomy bras. The case raises important issues […]

Professor Vaughan Lowe QC and Richard Hoyle, alongside Dr Christopher Ward SC and Dr Stephen Tully, recently advised the Norfolk Island People for Democracy in an Opinion entitled ‘In the matter of the Status of Norfolk Island as a Non-Self-Governing Territory’ as part of the ongoing high profile dispute between Norfolk Island and Australia. The […]

David Craig QC, instructed by Mishcon de Reya, obtained a final injunction on behalf of Tata Consultancy Services, one of the world’s leading IT businesses, against an individual who had managed to obtain, from an employee of Tata, details about a large number of Tata’s employees and clients taken from its internal database. The Defendant […]

David Craig QC, instructed by Linklaters, successfully acted for Glencore International Plc in the Court of Appeal in respect of a claim arising out of Glencore’s multi-billion pound merger with Xstrata. Xstrata’s former company secretary, Richard Elliston, was awarded damages in the High Court for Glencore’s refusal to pay him a “prescribed sum payment”, payable […]

The first ICCA Congress to be held in Africa is in progress in Mauritius, where delegates have heard from speakers including UN secretary general Ban Ki-moon and Nobel laureate Mohammed El Baradei. Salim Moollan QC is the Chairman of the ICCA 2016 Host Committee. Toby Landau QC is speaking on ‘How to Prepare a Persuasive […]

The members of Essex Court Chambers are delighted to have been shortlisted in the Chambers of the Year category at The Lawyer Awards 2016. The last year has seen the members of Essex Court Chambers maintain and strengthen their leading position in Commercial Litigation and International Arbitration, but also commit to further raising their profile in specialist, […]

John Lockey QC, instructed by Mayer Brown and leading Ben Lynch of Fountain Court and Peter Morcos of 4 New Square, acted for AIG in its successful appeal to the Court of Appeal in the case of AIG Europe Ltd v OC320301 LLP [2016] EWCA Civ 367. This is the first case to consider the […]