The Chambers Asia-Pacific Guide 2015 has just been published. It identifies and ranks top-rated lawyers in the region, covering 41 jurisdictions. Essex Court Chambers’ members continue to dominate the Dispute Resolution: Arbitration: English Bar – Singapore (The Bar) section  – accounting for three of the six barristers ranked.  David Joseph QC and Toby Landau QC are the […]

Jeffrey Gruder QC appeared in GARD MARINE & ENERGY LTD v CHINA NATIONAL CHARTERING CO LTD (THE “OCEAN VICTORY”), one of Lloyd’s Law Reports Top cases of 2014. This case (which was argued in the Court of Appeal in October 2014 and is reported at [2015] EWCA 16) raises important issues on the relationship between the safe […]

Graham Dunning QC and Anton Dudnikov represented a foreign regional government in a successful jurisdiction challenge in the Commercial Court: PCL & Others v The Y Regional Government of X [2015] EWHC 68 (Comm). The claimants had applied under s 42(1) of the Arbitration Act 1996 to enforce a peremptory order of an LCIA tribunal […]

The members of Essex Court Chambers have become the first barristers’ chambers to become official supporters of the Social Mobility Foundation (“SMF”). The SMF is a charity that aims to make a practical improvement in social mobility for young people from low-income backgrounds. The students it supports are selected on the basis of high academic […]

Members of Essex Court Chambers were instructed in two of the cases selected by i-law as its eight “most notable charterparty disputes of 2014″. Jeffrey Gruder QC and Claudia Renton acted for the charterers in Trafigura Beheer BV v. Navigazione Montanari SPA (the “Valle di Cordoba”) [2014] 1 Lloyd’s Rep 550. The hearing of preliminary […]

The Lawyer has published its list of the Top 20 Cases due to be heard in 2015. Essex Court Chambers’ David Foxton QC and Stephen Houseman QC are featured, instructed by Addleshaw Goddard partners Mark Hastings, Kambiz Larizadeh and David Engel, acting for the claimants in Dar Al Arkan.  The first phase trial is set […]

David Davies represented Mr Sergei Maksimov, the former President and majority shareholder of VAB, a Ukrainian bank, in major contempt proceedings in the Commercial Court. Mr Maksimov was accused of dealing with assets in breach of worldwide freezing orders that had been granted against him and companies associated with him in support of claims for […]

The results of the 2014-2015 Queen’s Counsel appointments have been announced today, with four members of Essex Court Chambers among the 93 new appointments. Congratulations to David Scorey, Nathan Pillow, David Craig and Ricky Diwan who will be sworn in as Queen’s Counsel at a ceremony on 16th February 2015.

Mr Raeza Ibrahim and Miss Sadhana Rai from Singapore law firm Drew & Napier LLC have won the prestigious Essex Court Chambers – SAL International Mooting Competition. This marks the second occasion on which a team from Drew & Napier have won the competition. This year’s competition included 27 impressive teams from countries including Australia, […]

Jeffrey Gruder QC joins other leading experts to discuss critical recent developments in global asset recovery and fraud claims at the Fraud, Asset Tracing and Recovery conference organised by C5 which takes place in Geneva in March. Jeffrey Gruder QC will be speaking on legal professional privilege in civil fraud cases on Day Two of the […]

An ICC Tribunal, chaired by Bernard Hanotiau, has dismissed a US$13 billion price reduction claim brought by Botaş against the National Iranian Gas Company (NIGC). Botaş is a Turkish state-owned energy company and NIGC its Iranian counterpart.   The dispute arises under a 25-year gas supply contract between the two companies under which Turkey imports up […]

A major trial over disputed metal deals is under way in the Commercial Court with Graham Dunning QC (assisted by David Davies and Stuart Cribb), instructed by Peter Bennett of Stephenson Harwood, representing Mercuria, one of the world’s biggest commodities traders. The dispute between the trading house and Citibank over apparently missing or multiple pledged […]