Toby Landau QC was named the “Who’s Who Legal” Lawyer of the Year for Arbitration at the “Who’s Who Legal” awards ceremony in New York on 31st March 2014. In addition, Essex Court Chambers was recognised in the Country and State Awards categories, picking up the “English – Set” award. Toby Landau and Essex Court […]
Ergo Versicherung AG has successfully defended a claim for English levels of tort damages in respect of a tort which occurred in Germany. Dismissing the appeal, the Supreme Court distinguished the earlier decision in Harding v. Wealands on the basis that that case turned on the NSW tort damages rules constituting a package of rules […]
Toby Landau QC and Jessica Wells, instructed by Kieron O’Callaghan and Ben Hornan of Hogan Lovells London, represented Norwegian state oil company Statoil in the defence of the application by the Algerian state oil company Sonatrach to set aside an ICC award. Mr Justice Flaux dismissed the application in the English Commercial Court and upheld […]
Paul McGrath QC’s second edition of “Commercial Fraud in Civil Practice”, just published by the Oxford University Press (OUP), builds on the excellent reputation earned by the first as a comprehensive and practical work focussing on civil law claims and remedies. As well as attracting very favourable reviews, the first edition has been most recently […]
Three members of Essex Court Chambers have been appointed to the newly formed Attorney General panel for Public International Law (PIL). Professor Dan Sarooshi has been appointed to the Attorney General’s ‘A’ Panel (PIL); Jessica Wells to the Attorney General’s ‘B’ Panel (PIL) and Amy Sander to the Attorney General’s ‘C’ Panel (PIL). Essex Court […]
Otkritie, one of Russia’s largest independent financial groups, was awarded damages of over US$170 million on Monday 10th February 2014 with Mr Justice Eder ruling it was the victim of “a cunning and well-orchestrated fraud”, principally by its former employees. Instructed by Hogan Lovells (Neil Mirchandani and Neil Dooley), Steven Berry QC, Nathan Pillow and […]
Launched on 18 February 2014, the Chambers Asia-Pacific Guide 2014 covers over 41 jurisdictions and identifies the top lawyers in the region. Essex Court Chambers’ members dominate the Dispute Resolution: Arbitration: The English Bar – Singapore http://www.chambersandpartners.com/188/2580/editorial/8/2#10389_editorial with David Joseph QC and Toby Landau QC, the only silks ranked. Jern-Fei Ng appears in the Juniors’ […]
The results of the Queen’s Counsel appointments were announced in the media today. At Essex Court Chambers, Charles Ciumei has been informed that he will be elevated to silk at a ceremony to be held on 14th April 2014.
Leading legal weekly The Lawyer has unveiled its Hot 100 list for 2014 naming the high-flyers who it believes will help shape the legal profession in the year to come and David Foxton QC of Essex Court Chambers is one of the eleven barristers considered “hot” and listed in the Bar section. This is what […]
The Lawyer has published its list of the Top 20 Cases due to be heard in 2014. Several members of chambers are acting in large scale, high profile trials included in this list: David Foxton QC, Stephen Houseman QC and Tom Ford (instructed by Clyde & Co) defend Clifford Chance’s Frankfurt partnership in a US$210m professional […]
For the first time, Chambers & Partners has introduced The Chambers 100 UK Bar, which ranks the top barristers in the UK, according to its research. To be in the initial shortlist of 200 Silks and 200 Juniors, lawyers had to be ranked in Bands One or Two or as ‘Star Individuals’ in a key […]
Key decision before the Eastern Caribbean Court of Appeal On Thursday 5 December the ECSC Court of Appeal handed down an order bringing much needed clarity to the Eastern Caribbean Civil Procedure Rules (the CPR) relating to leave to serve out for the purpose of enforcing foreign judgments. The previous restrictive reading of the BVI […]
