Essex Court Chambers is pleased to announce that Professor Dan Sarooshi has been appointed to the Attorney General’s ‘B’ Panel of Junior Counsel to the Crown. In addition, Amy Sander has been appointed to the Attorney General’s ‘C’ Panel of Junior Counsel to the Crown. The appointments are for 5 years, commencing 1st March 2013.
The Attorney General maintains four panels of junior counsel to undertake civil and EC work for all Government Departments.
The results of the Queen’s Counsel appointments were announced in the media today. At Essex Court Chambers, Nigel Eaton, Stephen Houseman, Paul Key and Sam Wordsworth have been informed that they will be elevated to Silk at a ceremony to be held on 27 March 2013
Leading legal weekly The Lawyer has unveiled its Hot 100 list for 2013 naming the high-flyers who it believes will help shape the legal profession this year and the list includes Paul McGrath QC of Essex Court Chambers The Lawyer praises McGrath with: “You have to hand it to the man. Last year, Paul McGrath […]
Arbitration International, Issue 3, pp. 361–379 Publisher: Kluwer Law Online
Essays in Memory of Sir Ian BrownlieEdited by Maurizio Ragazzi In December 2011, the United Nations General Assembly adopted the International Law Commission’s articles on the responsibility of international organizations, bringing to conclusion not only nearly ten years of reflection by the Commission, governments and organizations on this specific topic, but also decades of study […]
“The decision in Sinclair v Versailles to favour the reasoning of Lister v Stubbs over A-G of Hong v Reid has substantially reduced the ambit of proprietary claims arising from a breach of fiduciary duty but in manner which fails to take into account the legitimate arguments on both sides of the debate and which […]
David Scorey has been selected by the Tax Journal for inclusion in its “40 under 40”guide to 40 leading tax professionals based in the UK, under the age of 40 as at 1 November 2012, who have demonstrated outstanding achievement in their careers to date, as verified by independent researchers and by Tax Journal. Researchers received […]
“When international financial institutions arbitrate: what law governs international investment arbitration.” Published in Butterworths Journal of International Banking and Financial Law Vol.27 No.10 Nov. 2012
Al Sirri v Secretary of State for the Home Department; DD v Secretary of State for the Home Department [2012] UKSC 54 Tim Eicke Q.C., leading Iain Quirk and Jonathan Auburn of 4-5 Gray’s Inn Square and instructed by the Treasury Solicitor, successfully defended the Secretary of State in these two appeals, in which the […]
Every year, leading legal publication, Legal Week identifies and profiles the ten “most acclaimed young commercial advocates making their mark” and this year David Peters and Jern-Fei Ng of Essex Court Chambers were among the ten selected. The results were formed by contacting more than 350 solicitors, barristers, Queen’s Counsel and senior clerks to ascertain […]
Essex Court Chambers’ Jeffrey Gruder QC maintained an asset freezing injunction against Qatari royal, Sheikh Saud Bin Mohammed Bin Ali Al-Thani, one of the world’s most prolific collectors of art and antiquities. The Sheikh had failed to pay US$19.766 million for valuable ancient coins bought at an auction in New York in January 2012. In […]
