Essex Court Chambers’ Richard Millett QC secures liability victory for the Renova Group, headed by Russian businessman Viktor Vekselberg, in a long-running $82 million (£52 million) lawsuit, against mining tycoon Brian Gilbertson over ownership of the Fabergé Egg Company. A court in the Cayman Islands has ruled that Gilbertson, former chief executive of BHP Billiton, […]
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Cox v Ergo Versicherung AG The Court of Appeal has rejected an attempt to apply English law principles to the assessment of damages in a tort claim where there was substantial difference in the level of recovery in English and German law. German substantive law of tort limits compensation to net compensation whereas English law […]
A vibrant, thorough defence of the controversial issue of the margin of appreciation in international human rights law Clear analysis of the case law on the basis of factors that affect the margin of appreciation Assesses the margin of appreciation before three different systems: the European Court of Human Rights, the Inter-American Court of Human […]
Essex Court Chambers’ Toby Landau QC and David Joseph QC went head-to-head at the Singaporean High Court this week in a $300m legal battle for Malaysian tycoon Ananda Krishnan and the Indonesian conglomerate Lippo Group. It was the first time British QCs have been allowed to conduct advocacy in the Singaporean Court since the enactment […]
R (United Road Transport Union) v Secretary of State for Transport In a judgment, handed down today (13 July 2012), Mr Justice Hickinbottom rejected a challenge by a Trade Union against the Secretary of State’s refusal to extend the right of appeal to the Employment Tribunal to road transport workers. By its application, the Union […]
A vibrant, thorough defence of the controversial issue of the margin of appreciation in international human rights law Clear analysis of the case law on the basis of factors that affect the margin of appreciation Assesses the margin of appreciation before three different systems: the European Court of Human Rights, the Inter-American Court of Human […]
G1 v Secretary of State for the Home Department On 4 July 2012, the Court of Appeal (Laws, Rix and Lewison LJJ) dismissed the appeal by an individual seeking an order that the Secretary of State was required, as a matter of law, to facilitate his return to the UK to exercise is right of […]
Matthew Sellwood and Daniele Selmi, the team from Oxford Brookes University, were presented last night with the Silver Mace and £1,000 each, as winners of this year’s ESU – Essex Court Chambers National Mooting Competition. It is the first time that Oxford Brookes University has won the competition which has been running for 41 years, […]
SULAMÉRICA CIA NACIONAL DE SEGUROS S.A. and others – and – ENESA ENGENHARIA S.A. In a ruling last month, appeal court judges Lord Neuberger, Lord Justice Moore-Bick and Lady Justice Hallett upheld the anti-suit injunction restraining the appellants, Enesa Engenharia S.A. and others from pursuing proceedings against the respondents, Sulamérica Cia Nacional de Seguros S.A. […]
RBS sought an anti-suit injunction to stop proceedings in Texas, which were said to breach an exclusive jurisdiction clause. Graham Dunning QC and Philippa Hopkins of Essex Court Chambers, instructed by John Day of Day Sparkes, successfully argued that no injunction should be granted against their client because RBS did not have “clean hands”. Burton […]
