The deadline for applications has now been extended to 20 September 2021. Members of Essex Court Chambers are pleased to announce that the mentoring scheme for underrepresented groups at the Bar has expanded to include four more sets of chambers for 2021-2022. The purpose of the scheme is to support and encourage individuals from groups […]
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The Supreme Court has today handed down judgment in Efobi v Royal Mail Group Ltd [2021] UKSC 33 clarifying the operation of the burden of proof in claims for contraventions of the Equality Act 2010 and reinforcing the availability of adverse inferences against respondents who fail in appropriate cases to call evidence from relevant individuals. […]
Members of Chambers are pleased to announce that Christopher Lloyd has joined Essex Court Chambers. Christopher has a busy multi-jurisdictional modern commercial chancery practice with an emphasis on civil fraud and asset recovery claims. Christopher was called the bar in 2011 and joined Essex Court Chambers from Erskine Chambers on Friday 16 July 2021. Christopher is […]
Members of Chambers are delighted to welcome two new tenants. Daniel Fox and Gretta Schumacher have both accepted invitations to join after successful completion of pupillage. During their pupillage they have experienced a broad range of practice areas in line with Chambers’ profile, overseen by senior pupillage supervisors. Daniel and Gretta will join Chambers from […]
Members of Chambers are pleased to announce that Sophia Hurst has joined Essex Court Chambers. Sophia is a busy junior barrister with a specialist commercial chancery practice encompassing a range of commercial litigation, civil fraud and asset recovery, shareholder/joint venture disputes, banking and financial services, and contentious trusts litigation. Sophia was called the bar in […]
On Friday 9 July 2021, Judgment was handed down in Markel Bermuda v Caesars Entertainment [2021] EWHC 1931 (Comm) by Mr Justice Bryan in the Commercial Court, following an expedited trial. Bryan J granted a final anti-suit injunction to the claimant insurer in support of a London arbitration clause. The Court also ordered rectification of […]
Mrs Justice Cockerill handed down judgment on 2 July 2021 in VTB Commodities Trading DAC v JSC Antipinsky Refinery & ors. [2021] EWHC 1758 (Comm), concluding that the English courts did not have jurisdiction to hear the claims brought by VTB Commodities Trading DAC (“VTB”) against Sberbank. VTB had asserted claims in excess of US$300 […]
A UK Employment Tribunal (“ET”) has handed down judgment on the previously untested issue whether a party serving ET proceedings on a foreign State in relation to employment by that State’s armed forces of persons within the UK was required to follow the service provisions in s. 12 of the State Immunity Act 1978 (“SIA”), […]
Members of Chambers are pleased to announce that Ben Juratowitch QC will join Essex Court Chambers on Monday 1 November 2021. Ben is a partner at Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer LLP and is Head of the firm’s Public International Law practice. Ben took silk in 2017 and is also a member of the Paris Bar. He […]
The Supreme Court has today handed down judgment in General Dynamics v Libya [2021] UKSC 22. General Dynamics seeks to enforce an arbitration award of over £16 million plus interest and costs made in 2016 by an ICC tribunal against Libya. On 21 June 2018, it issued proceedings in the High Court to enforce the […]
On Monday 14 June 2021, Sir Jeremy Lionel Cooke IJ issued a reserved judgment in the case of Singapore Airlines Ltd. v CSDS Aircraft Sales & Leasing Inc. [2021] SGHC(I) 3. This judgment followed a short trial conducted remotely in the Singapore International Commercial Court (SICC) during May which dealt with issues of liability in […]
On Monday 14 June 2021, the Privy Council handed down judgment in Betamax Ltd v State Trading Corporation (Mauritius) [2021] UKPC 14. The case has important ramifications for the extent to which a court can set aside or refuse to enforce an international arbitration award on the basis that it conflicts with public policy. The appeal was brought […]
