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The team from University of Glasgow is the winner of this year’s ESU – Essex Court Chambers National Mooting Competition. It is the first time that Glasgow has won the coveted silver mace. Francesca Ruddy and Katherine Docherty from the University of Glasgow defeated  Alexander Knight and Matilda Forbes Watson representing BPP Law School in […]

Martin Griffiths QC is the Finance Monthly Law Award 2011 Winner in the category of: Management Labour and Employment Law Firm of the Year, England. The 2011 Finance Monthly law awards recognises all those firms that have dedicated their resources to innovation, built on their depth of expertise and performed outstandingly over the year.

Graham Dunning QC of Essex Court Chambers, leading a team including Nick Harrison of Serle Court, Carol Welu of Squire Sanders & Dempsey, London, and Chris Cope of Appleby, Isle of Man, scored a notable victory before the Judicial Committee of the Privy Council last week. The Judicial Committee accepted their arguments and decided to […]

Essex Court Chamber’s Andrew Hochhauser QC and David Craig, instructed as counsel by Mark Levine and Daniel Naftalin,of Mishcon de Reya, representing 21 former Dresdner Kleinwort bankers, were celebrating a significant victory after the Court of Appeal granted permission to challenge Commerzbank in a dispute over bonuses on Tuesday (8 March 2011). The case, which […]

The results of the Queen’s Counsel appointments were announced in the media today. At Essex Court Chambers, Sara Cockerill, Tim Eicke and Paul McGrath have been informed that they will be elevated to Silk at a ceremony to be held on Thursday 7 April 2011.

Sam Wordsworth has been appointed to the Attorney General’s ‘A’ Panel. He had previously been a member of the ‘B’ panel. Sam joins other Essex Court Chambers member Tim Eicke who has been reappointed to the ‘A’ panel. Ed Brown and Iain Quirk are on the ‘C’ panel. The Attorney General maintains four panels of […]

Professor Malcolm Shaw QC is taking early retirement from the Sir Robert Jennings Chair of International Law at the University of Leicester at the end of February 2011. This follows his appointments in October 2010 as a Senior Fellow at the Lauterpacht Centre for International Law, University of Cambridge and a Trustee at the British […]

Barristers from Essex Court Chambers have been appointed to the preferred list of counsel of The Equality and Human Rights Commission. Those included are Hugh Mercer QC, Prof. Philippa Watson, Charles Ciumei, Tim Eicke, Sam Wordsworth, David Craig, Edward Brown, Jessica Wells and Amy Sander. The Equality & Human Rights Commission’s preferred legal counsel list […]

Overseas Attachment Opportunities at Essex Court Chambers The Singapore Academy of Law (“the Academy”) is offering up to 2 six-month overseas attachments at Essex Court Chambers and Fountain Court Chambers for the financial year 1 April 2011 to 31 March 2012. Applicants must: a) be members of the Academy; and b) have between 3 to […]

Barristers from Essex Court Chambers conducted the defence of claims of bribery and corruption, dishonest assistance and conspiracy brought by two Russian state-owned companies, Sovcomflot and Novoship, against their clients in the massive Fiona Trust litigation. Steven Berry QC, Nathan Pillow QC and David Davies acted for the Russian businessman Yuri Nikitin, Graham Dunning QC […]