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Now in its 5th year, applications are currently open for the 2015/2016 ECC-SAL International Mooting Competition  Jointly hosted by members of Essex Court Chambers and the Singapore Academy of Law, the competition presents an ideal opportunity for young lawyers to showcase and hone their skills as advocates. Following four successful editions of the competition since 2012, […]

Essex Court Chambers and its members have received 10 nominations across six categories in The Legal 500 UK Awards 2015. Nominated for Set of the Year in five categories: Commercial litigation Construction and Energy Employment International arbitration Shipping There are five Silk nominations across four categories: Paul McGrath QC – Silk of the Year: Commercial […]

The Legal 500 UK 2015, published this week, describes Essex Court Chambers as ‘a clear Magic Circle set’ with ‘fantastic barristers’, ‘excellent clerks’ and ‘a very good service’. Essex Court Chambers is named in the top five sets with the most set rankings, the most Top-tier rankings and the most Silks rankings. Cited as a […]

A recent survey by Portland Communications has identified Graham Dunning QC as the most featured advocate in the Commercial Court, appearing in a total of six cases in the last 12 months. The annual study, Who uses the Commercial Court, now in its third year, analyses the nationalities of the parties involved in cases at […]

In a judgment of significance, with political repercussions, the Grand Chamber of the European Court of Human Rights on 16 June 2015 decided in Chiragov v Armenia that Armenia exercised effective control over the territory of Nagorno-Karabakh and the surrounding areas (captured during the 1992 conflict with Azerbaijan) and that Armenia thus bore responsibility under […]

Essex Court Chambers is pleased to announce that Jane Russell has been appointed to the Attorney General’s ‘B’ Panel of Junior Counsel to the Crown. Jane handles employment, human rights and commercial disputes involving issues of discrimination, whistleblowing, national security and employee competition and fraud. She is an experienced trial advocate and often appears as sole […]

Congratulations to Nicole Kapu and Duncan Graves from Oxford Brookes University, who have won the Silver Mace and been crowned the winners of the prestigious ESU-ECC National Mooting Competition 2015. Thomas Sweeney and Laura Nelson from Northumbria University were awarded the Scarman Shield as runners-up, following a high quality and hotly contested final in a […]

Jern-Fei Ng has been appointed to serve on the committee of the Young SIAC. The YSIAC is a forum for young professionals to exchange expertise, ideas and experience in international arbitration and serves a platform to allow young professionals interested in alternative dispute resolution in Asia and worldwide to network among like-minded peers and to […]

Simon Bryan QC has been appointed as Chief Justice of the Falkland Islands, South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands, the British Antarctic Territory and the British Indian Ocean Territory. The Chief Justice is the non-resident judge of the Supreme Court for the Falkland Islands. The Supreme Court is a court of record with unlimited […]

Mr T Harrington v. The United States of America (2015) Employment Tribunal Judgment, Case 1807940/2013, 27 March 2015. A UK Employment Tribunal has dismissed a number of claims brought by Mr Harrington against his former employer, the Army and Air Force Exchange Services (“AAFES”) – an integral part of the US Armed Forces – on […]

Supreme Court judgment in Pham v Secretary of State for the Home Department (here) Today (25 March 2015) the Supreme Court handed down judgment in this important case concerning the interpretation of the 1954 Statelessness Convention.  In addition to the guidance it gives on the approach to the concept of “statelessness” under the 1954 Convention, […]