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 […]
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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 […]
The members of Essex Court Chambers have become the first barristers’ chambers to become official supporters of the Social Mobility Foundation (“SMF”). The SMF is a charity that aims to make a practical improvement in social mobility for young people from low-income backgrounds. The students it supports are selected on the basis of high academic […]
Members of Essex Court Chambers were instructed in two of the cases selected by i-law as its eight “most notable charterparty disputes of 2014″. Jeffrey Gruder QC and Claudia Renton acted for the charterers in Trafigura Beheer BV v. Navigazione Montanari SPA (the “Valle di Cordoba”) [2014] 1 Lloyd’s Rep 550. The hearing of preliminary […]
The Lawyer has published its list of the Top 20 Cases due to be heard in 2015. Essex Court Chambers’ David Foxton QC and Stephen Houseman QC are featured, instructed by Addleshaw Goddard partners Mark Hastings, Kambiz Larizadeh and David Engel, acting for the claimants in Dar Al Arkan. The first phase trial is set […]
