After several hearings, a settlement has been reached in the long-running LCIA arbitration between a consortium of UAE gas companies, comprising Pearl Petroleum Company Limited, Dana Gas PJSC and Crescent Petroleum Company International Limited (as Claimants) and the Kurdistan Regional Government of Iraq (as Respondent). News of the arbitration and its settlement has recently been […]
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A summary of the talk given by Jeffrey Gruder QC to BILA at Lloyd’s on 21 July 2017: Arbitrating Insurance and Reinsurance Disputes: “Transparent and Impartial?”
In a conference covering the Hot Employment Law Issues during 2017-18, Andrew Hochhauser QC will be speaking on restrictive covenants and post employment restraints and Daniel Oudkerk QC will be speaking on bonus disputes and discretionary remuneration. Members of Essex Court Chambers have been instructed in many of the key restrictive covenants and bonus claims […]
Essex Court Chambers’ Richard Hoyle and Lucas Bastin participated in The Legal 500’s first Junior Bar Roundtable, entitled ‘Shaping the Future of the Bar’, alongside members of a variety of other Chambers. The Roundtable touched upon important issues for the junior bar, including the key attributes of modern-day barristers, how the Bar may change in […]
In a judgment handed down in the High Court on 27th July 2017, Mr Justice Burton dismissed an application to enforce a Russian arbitral award that was set aside by the Russian courts, in Nikolay Viktorovich Maximov v. Open Joint Stock Company [2017] EWHC 1911 (Comm). The award arose out of a dispute between the […]
The members of Essex Court Chambers are delighted to announce the appointments of Simon Bryan QC and Sara Cockerill QC as Justices of the High Court. Simon Bryan is appointed with effect from 2 October 2017 and Sara Cockerill is appointed with effect from 1 November 2017. The Lord Chief Justice will assign the new Mr […]
The following nominations have been received in the Chambers UK Bar Awards 2017: International Arbitration – Set of the Year Insurance – Set of the Year David Foxton QC – Banking Silk of the Year David Joseph QC – International Arbitration Silk of the Year Jeremy Brier – Commercial Litigation Junior of the Year Emily Wood – International Arbitration […]
Sam Wordsworth QC, together with Paul Tan of Rajah and Tann, acted for the Kingdom of Lesotho in the first ever application in Singapore for an investor-State arbitral award on the merits to be set aside. The decision engaged wide-reaching issues on international law and also Singapore’s international arbitration law that had yet to be considered […]
Essex Court Chambers’ Tom Ford has been recognised as a rising star in Legal Week’s ‘Stars at the Bar 2017’. The feature profiles ten of the most promising barristers of ten years call and under and market research is undertaken to determine exceptional achievers. Tom was called to the Bar in 2008 and became a […]
This article considers how far obligations which control the exercise of contractual discretions (“discretion obligations”) should apply to clauses giving a right to terminate a contract. It considers the particular contexts in which discretion obligations have been recognised, and argues that these fall broadly into four categories, none of which engage rights of termination. The […]
David Craig QC (together with Michael Furness QC and Emily McKehnie) acted for the BBC in the Court of Appeal against an appeal brought by John Bradbury in respect of the BBC’s decision to cap at 1% the amount of any pay rise that would count as pensionable pay under the BBC’s defined benefit (final salary) […]
Members of Essex Court Chambers are deeply saddened to announce that Sir Anthony Colman passed away peacefully in hospital on 28 July 2017. Sir Anthony joined Essex Court Chambers in 1962. He served as High Court judge of the commercial court from 1992 to 2007, and was Presiding judge from 2006 to 2007. He was […]
