Queen Mary, University of London is the winning team in this year’s ESU – Essex Court Chambers National Mooting Competition. Queen Mary has now won the competition four times in its history but the last time was 25 years ago in 1981.
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Essex Court Chambers’ Vaughan Lowe has been appointed as the UK judge on the European Nuclear Energy Tribunal. The Convention on the Establishment of a Security Control in the Field of Nuclear Energy and the Protocol on the Tribunal established by the Convention were adopted on 20 December 1957. The Convention came into force on […]
Professor Alan Boyle of the University of Edinburgh has accepted a Door Tenancy in Essex Court Chambers. Professor Boyle will practice as an Adviser and Advocate in Public International Law, particularly in his specialist fields of environmental law and the law of the sea.
Dan Sarooshi’s book, International Organizations and Their Exercise of Sovereign Powers (OUP), has been awarded the 2006 Book Prize (‘The Certificate of Merit’) by the American Society of International Law (ASIL) as a ‘pre-eminent contribution to creative scholarship’ from among 73 entries world-wide. Dan Sarooshi’s earlier book The United Nations and the Development of Collective […]
Johan Steyn, one of the country’s most senior judges, retires from his post as Lord of Appeal in Ordinary which he has held since 1995 and returns to his old Chambers – Essex Court Chambers. Lord Steyn originally joined Essex Court Chambers back in 1973 on qualifying at the English Bar. He was elevated to […]
Essex Court Chambers won “Chambers of the Year” at last night’s Chambers Bar Awards held at the Dorchester, Park Lane and run by Chambers and Partners, the specialist legal publishers and recruiters. But the top award was not the only prize that this commercial set and its members won. Wiping the board in the class […]
Shane Doyle, Australian Senior Counsel and company and commercial law specialist has become a member of Essex Court Chambers.
