The results of the first Queen’s Counsel appointment round in three years were announced in the media on the 18th July. At Essex Court Chambers a total of five barristers were notified of the successful outcome of their applications. They are John Lockey, David Foxton, Simon Bryan, Huw Davies and Martin Griffiths. All five will […]
Queen Mary, University of London is the winning team in this year’s ESU – Essex Court Chambers National Mooting Competition. Queen Mary has now won the competition four times in its history but the last time was 25 years ago in 1981.
Essex Court Chambers’ Vaughan Lowe has been appointed as the UK judge on the European Nuclear Energy Tribunal. The Convention on the Establishment of a Security Control in the Field of Nuclear Energy and the Protocol on the Tribunal established by the Convention were adopted on 20 December 1957. The Convention came into force on […]
Professor Alan Boyle of the University of Edinburgh has accepted a Door Tenancy in Essex Court Chambers. Professor Boyle will practice as an Adviser and Advocate in Public International Law, particularly in his specialist fields of environmental law and the law of the sea.
Dan Sarooshi’s book, International Organizations and Their Exercise of Sovereign Powers (OUP), has been awarded the 2006 Book Prize (‘The Certificate of Merit’) by the American Society of International Law (ASIL) as a ‘pre-eminent contribution to creative scholarship’ from among 73 entries world-wide. Dan Sarooshi’s earlier book The United Nations and the Development of Collective […]
Johan Steyn, one of the country’s most senior judges, retires from his post as Lord of Appeal in Ordinary which he has held since 1995 and returns to his old Chambers – Essex Court Chambers. Lord Steyn originally joined Essex Court Chambers back in 1973 on qualifying at the English Bar. He was elevated to […]
Essex Court Chambers won “Chambers of the Year” at last night’s Chambers Bar Awards held at the Dorchester, Park Lane and run by Chambers and Partners, the specialist legal publishers and recruiters. But the top award was not the only prize that this commercial set and its members won. Wiping the board in the class […]
Shane Doyle, Australian Senior Counsel and company and commercial law specialist has become a member of Essex Court Chambers.
Paul McGrath of Essex Court Chambers acted as Junior Counsel on the Stephenson Harwood team, winners of the Dispute Resolution Team of the Year, at the Legal Business Awards 2005.
City University is the winning team in this year’s ESU – Essex Court Chambers National Mooting Competition. Elizabeth Prochaska and Benedict Rodgers beat off Katherine Hallett and Jeremy Lightfoot representing University of Oxford in the exciting evening final, which was held in the Lord Chief Justice’s Court of the Royal Courts of Justice last night. […]
Essex Court Chambers is delighted to be independently nominated to the shortlist of six for the Lawyer “Chambers of the Year” Award. Head of Chambers Gordon Pollock has also been nominated for “Barrister of the Year” making Essex Court Chambers the only set this year to be short listed for two awards
Paul McGrath of Essex Court Chambers acted as Junior Counsel on the Stephenson Harwood team, winners of the Dispute Resolution Team of the Year, at the Legal Business Awards 2005. For further information see the Stephenson Harwood press release which follows. Stephenson Harwood wins dispute resolution team of the year – Legal business awards 2005 International […]
