Naomi Hart has been appointed to the Legal Services Panel for the Government of the Virgin Islands. Naomi has a diverse practice in international, commercial, public and human rights law. Naomi’s commercial practice encompasses civil fraud, conflict of laws, shipping and general commercial disputes. She has also been involved in cases before the courts of British […]
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Members of Chambers are pleased to share that Freddie Popplewell has been newly appointed to the C panel of Counsel with effect from Friday 1 September 2023. The Attorney General maintains three advisory panels of junior counsel to undertake civil and EU work for all government departments. There are three London panels, three public international law […]
Iain Quirk KC has been appointed to the CI-MAC roster of arbitrators and to the Legal Services Panel for the Government of the Virgin Islands. Iain specialises in international arbitration, and parallel court and arbitration proceedings, with an emphasis on energy & natural resources, fraud, shareholder disputes and banking & finance, including crypto disputes. He […]
Deep Seabed Mining: The Critical Juncture that we should all be talking about Authors: Amy Sander and Sean Aughey Click to download PDF Introduction The potential mining of minerals from our ocean seabed looms. Whilst some urge to press forward to unlock these ‘batteries in a rock’ as an alternative to terrestrial mining (e.g. here), […]
In the case Evans v Barclays Bank PLC & Ors [2023] EWCA Civ 876 handed down on the 25th July, the Court of Appeal has given its judgment in two appeals on FX collective claims brought by competing class representatives (“Evans” and “O’Higgins”) against the 2022 judgment of the Competition Appeal Tribunal (the “CAT”) denying […]
In National Iranian Oil Company (NIOC) v 1.) Crescent Petroleum Company International Limited and 2.) Crescent Gas Corporation Limited [2023] EWCA Civ 826, the Court of Appeal dismissed NIOC’s appeal in respect of the summary dismissal by Butcher J of its s.67 jurisdictional challenge to an arbitral award by which Crescent was awarded damages in […]
Members of Chambers are pleased to announce that Thomas Sebastian has joined Essex Court Chambers from today, Monday 17 July 2023. Tom joins Chambers from Monckton Chambers. Tom has a diverse commercial practice in line with Chambers’ profile with a particular focus on public international law, all aspects of international economic law including WTO law and investment […]
Essex Court Chambers are delighted to have been shortlisted in 13 categories for The Legal 500 Bar Awards 2023, including 12 individual nominations for members of Chambers. Members: Commercial litigation Junior of the year (Tom Ford) Commercial litigation Silk of the year (Paul McGrath KC) Employment Silk of the year (Daniel Oudkerk KC) International arbitration […]
Two significant contempt applications for breach of a court order or an undertaking given to the Court have been determined in the last 18 months: That brought by the four Business Mortgage Finance PLCs (“BMF”) against former banker, Rizwan Hussain (where a contempt based on multiple breaches of injunction was established and upheld on appeal) […]
Members of Essex Court Chambers are pleased to announce that Samantha Wright has been promoted to Assistant Team Leader. Sam will continue to Clerk the Junior members of Chambers over 10 years call. Senior Clerk Joe Ferrigno said, “I am very proud to share the excellent news of Sam’s promotion within our clerking team here […]
On 3rd July 2023, in The Republic of Mozambique v Credit Suisse International and Others [2023] EWHC 1650 (Comm), Knowles J. dismissed applications brought by Credit Suisse, VTB, Privinvest and others seeking to strike out the claims and defences of the Republic of Mozambique in advance of the 12-week “tuna bonds” trial, due to commence […]
The Commercial Court has granted the first anti-suit injunction (ASI) to enforce the new statutory right to be sued in England under Section 15C of the Civil Jurisdiction and Judgments Act 1982 (CJJA 1982). Section 15C was introduced by regulation 26 of the Civil Jurisdiction and Judgments (Amendment) (EU Exit) Regulations 2019/479 pursuant to the […]
