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 […]
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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, […]
Who’s Who Legal: UK Bar 2015, http://whoswholegal.com/news/community/article/32181/the-uk-bar-2015/ published last week, is Law Business Research Ltd’s first UK Bar publication, providing an overview of the leading barristers and sets across 24 distinct practice areas. It features 24 chapters listing the barristers who received the most nominations from UK solicitors, in-house counsel, and fellow members of the […]
Toby Landau QC is one of five new members appointed to the SIAC Court of Arbitration. The other four are Ms Claudia Annacker of Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton LLP, Mr Lijun Cao of Zhong Lun Law Firm, Dr Eun Young Park of Kim & Chang and Ms Lucy Reed of Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer. At […]
The Chambers Asia-Pacific Guide 2015 has just been published. It identifies and ranks top-rated lawyers in the region, covering 41 jurisdictions. Essex Court Chambers’ members continue to dominate the Dispute Resolution: Arbitration: English Bar – Singapore (The Bar) section – accounting for three of the six barristers ranked. David Joseph QC and Toby Landau QC are the […]
Jeffrey Gruder QC appeared in GARD MARINE & ENERGY LTD v CHINA NATIONAL CHARTERING CO LTD (THE “OCEAN VICTORY”), one of Lloyd’s Law Reports Top cases of 2014. This case (which was argued in the Court of Appeal in October 2014 and is reported at [2015] EWCA 16) raises important issues on the relationship between the safe […]
Graham Dunning QC and Anton Dudnikov represented a foreign regional government in a successful jurisdiction challenge in the Commercial Court: PCL & Others v The Y Regional Government of X [2015] EWHC 68 (Comm). The claimants had applied under s 42(1) of the Arbitration Act 1996 to enforce a peremptory order of an LCIA tribunal […]
