The Commercial Court in London begins hearing the trial of Avonwick Holdings Ltd v. Azitio Holdings Ltd, Dargamo Holdings Ltd, Sergiy Taruta and Others today. This is one of four major trials this year involving members of Essex Court Chambers as featured in The Lawyer’s Top 20 Cases of 2019. The dispute between three prominent […]
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Members of Chambers are delighted to welcome four new tenants today. Mubarak Waseem, Mark Belshaw, Freddie Popplewell and David Baker have all accepted invitations to join Chambers following successful completion of pupillage. During their pupillage, they have experienced a broad range of practice areas in line with Chambers’ profile. Further information on their experience and […]
Members of Essex Court Chambers are delighted to announce the appointment of Ben Perry as Deputy Senior Clerk with effect from Tuesday 1 October 2019. Ben has been a member of the clerking team at Essex Court for over 25 years, joining in 1994, and has played an integral part in developing a highly respected […]
Hugh Mercer QC and Peter Webster, instructed by Exeme Avocats, Bordeaux, represented the City of Bordeaux in the successful recovery from London of four 14th and 15th century altar panels stolen in the 1980s. The Nottinghamshire alabaster panels had probably originally arrived in Bordeaux in the Middle Ages as payment for a shipment of wine. The […]
Sam Wordsworth QC was invited to give expert evidence on 4 September to the ‘no deal’ financial obligations enquiry conducted by the House of Lords sub-committee on EU financial affairs. The evidence can be seen here. The questions posed by the committee focused on whether the UK has financial obligations to pay into the EU […]
Essex Court Chambers are delighted to have received the following nominations for the Chambers UK Bar Awards 2019: International Arbitration – Set of the Year Insurance – Set of the Year Joe Smouha QC – Commercial Litigation Silk of the Year James Willan – Banking Junior of the Year Tom Ford – Commercial Litigation Junior […]
In the 2019 edition of the Chambers & Partners UK Bar directory, Essex Court Chambers gained a new set ranking in Chancery: Commercial law. To celebrate this recognition and to showcase the work that members have been doing for many years in this area, members of Essex Court Chambers are holding a Chancery Commercial focused […]
In a £60 million dispute between the AMEX group and HMRC, the Tax Tribunal has held in favour of AMEX. The case raised the vexed and perennial question of analysing triangular and linear supply situations, where the issue is whether A makes its supplies to B or C, or both. It also involved the analysis […]
Richard Hoyle appeared for 3M and Arizant Healthcare in securing the enforcement of several Letters of Request under the Hague Convention on the Taking of Evidence Abroad, against a number of leading medical practitioners in the UK who had either participated in or conducted medical studies related to the use of a medical warming device […]
Members of Chambers warmly congratulate Martin Griffiths QC on his appointment as a Justice of the High Court, with effect from 1st October. Called to the Bar by Inner Temple in 1986, Martin took Silk in 2006. He was appointed as a Recorder in 2009 and authorised to sit as a Deputy High Court Judge […]
An article by Ricky Diwan QC based on a presentation given at the inaugural GAR Live Mumbai on 15 June 2019 and the debate that ensued. Rethinking Confidentiality in International Commercial Arbitration
The Members of Essex Court Chambers are pleased to announce that Edward Brown has been appointed to the Attorney General’s ‘A’ Panel of Counsel to the Crown and both Stephen Donnelly and Jackie McArthur have been appointed to the Attorney General’s ‘C’ Panel. Edward is a very experienced trial advocate and regularly handles substantial cases […]
