20 Essex Street is a leading and long-established set of commercial barristers’ chambers whose members offer great breadth and depth of legal expertise and litigation experience.
Members of chambers are instructed on behalf of individual, corporate and governmental clients from around the world to advise and appear as advocates in court or arbitration in relation to a broad range of commercial, EU, competition, human rights and public international law disputes.
20 Essex Street is also home to a number of highly respected domestic and international arbitrators and mediators, some of whom were previously judges either in the UK or overseas.
Our premises in London are close to the Royal Courts of Justice and leading arbitration centres. We also have a fully staffed office at Maxwell Chambers in Singapore.
The Supreme Court handed down its judgment today in the time charter case of ENE Kos 1 Limited v Petroleo Brasileiro SA (the "KOS").
The dispute concerns an owner's right to remuneration in the period after he has withdrawn his vessel from the service of his time charterer for the non-payment of hire. The facts of the case were that the...
There are 55 barrister members, of whom 21 are Queen’s Counsel, and a 16 further members of chambers who act exclusively as mediators or arbitrators.
Members of chambers work in a wide range of different legal areas in a great variety of factual contexts. Most of the work which we do has an international element.
