Otkritie, one of Russia’s largest independent financial groups, was awarded damages of over US$170 million on Monday 10th February 2014 with Mr Justice Eder ruling it was the victim of “a cunning and well-orchestrated fraud”, principally by its former employees. Instructed by Hogan Lovells (Neil Mirchandani and Neil Dooley), Steven Berry QC, Nathan Pillow and […]
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Launched on 18 February 2014, the Chambers Asia-Pacific Guide 2014 covers over 41 jurisdictions and identifies the top lawyers in the region. Essex Court Chambers’ members dominate the Dispute Resolution: Arbitration: The English Bar – Singapore http://www.chambersandpartners.com/188/2580/editorial/8/2#10389_editorial with David Joseph QC and Toby Landau QC, the only silks ranked. Jern-Fei Ng appears in the Juniors’ […]
The results of the Queen’s Counsel appointments were announced in the media today. At Essex Court Chambers, Charles Ciumei has been informed that he will be elevated to silk at a ceremony to be held on 14th April 2014.
Volatility in the commodity markets – together with events such as the financial crisis, liberalisation of the gas markets in Europe, the development of gas hubs and the continuing influx of liquefied natural gas (LNG) into Europe – has put increasing pressure on pricing in many long-term gas sales agreements into continental Europe. This has […]
Article appeared in Entertainment Law Review issue 2 2014 published by Thomson Reuters.
Leading legal weekly The Lawyer has unveiled its Hot 100 list for 2014 naming the high-flyers who it believes will help shape the legal profession in the year to come and David Foxton QC of Essex Court Chambers is one of the eleven barristers considered “hot” and listed in the Bar section. This is what […]
The Lawyer has published its list of the Top 20 Cases due to be heard in 2014. Several members of chambers are acting in large scale, high profile trials included in this list: David Foxton QC, Stephen Houseman QC and Tom Ford (instructed by Clyde & Co) defend Clifford Chance’s Frankfurt partnership in a US$210m professional […]
For the first time, Chambers & Partners has introduced The Chambers 100 UK Bar, which ranks the top barristers in the UK, according to its research. To be in the initial shortlist of 200 Silks and 200 Juniors, lawyers had to be ranked in Bands One or Two or as ‘Star Individuals’ in a key […]
Key decision before the Eastern Caribbean Court of Appeal On Thursday 5 December the ECSC Court of Appeal handed down an order bringing much needed clarity to the Eastern Caribbean Civil Procedure Rules (the CPR) relating to leave to serve out for the purpose of enforcing foreign judgments. The previous restrictive reading of the BVI […]
Every year, leading legal publication Legal Week identifies and profiles the 10 most acclaimed young barristers “making their mark in a fiercely competitive arena” and this year Siddharth Dhar and Amy Sander of Essex Court Chambers were among the ten selected. The results were formed by contacting more than 350 solicitors, barristers, Queen’s Counsel and […]
The Supreme Court in its judgment of 23 October 2013, and in an enhanced bench of seven judges, unanimously held that the definition of terrorism in the Terrorism Act 2000 was intended to be wide and could thus include acts by insurgents against the armed forces of a state anywhere in the world in the […]
Toby Landau QC and Joe Smouha QC of Essex Court Chambers, instructed by law firm Reed Smith, were part of the teams representing and advising the Ministry of Justice of the Republic of Kazakhstan (RoK), in the successful challenge of two arbitrations worth £1.9bn, recently brought before the International Centre for Settlement of Investment Disputes […]
