Angharad Parry

BA (Oxon) LLM (Cantab)

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Angharad Parry specialises in advisory and advocacy work in a wide range of commercial and private international law disputes concerning arbitration, sale of goods, carriage of goods, shipping, admiralty, public international law work (particularly involving contracts between states and private entities). She has been involved in a number of high value arbitrations, particularly before the ICC and LCIA.

Specialisations: 

  • International arbitration (particular interest in state/private partydisputes)
  • Commercial
  • Private
  • International Law
  • Shipping

Principal Cases: 

Arbitration

Acting as junior counsel in an LCIA arbitration relating to investment dispute in a former USSR state.
Acting as junior counsel in an LCIA arbitration concerning a high value insurance dispute.
Acting as junior counsel in a long running energy arbitration, taking place in the ICC, and relating to events in an emerging Eastern European market.
Acted as sole counsel in two recent arbitrations involving the overlap between shipping and competition law.
Represented a private party against a Latin American state interest, in an English law arbitration concerning a profit-sharing arrangement.
Acted as a junior counsel in a LCIA arbitration, relating to a high value commercial commodities dispute involving Russian parties.
Acted as junior counsel in a high value LMAA arbitration, relating to a profit-sharing agreement in shipping.
Acted as a researcher in a case concerning injunctions to restrain arbitrators in arbitrations.

Shipping

Has acted in numerous LMAA arbitrations in respect of charterparty disputes, speed and consumption disputes, bills of lading disputes.

Pro bono

Advised pro bono on a number of human rights cases Advised pro bono on issues relating to compassionate standards in farming and animal husbandry.

Working on appeals for cancer charities on behalf of patients who have been refused advanced stage drug treatment.

Education and Career: 

BA (Oxon) Jurisprudence : First Class degree from Brasenose College, University of Oxford (1999);

LLM (Cantab) : First Class degree from Trinity Hall, University of Cambridge (2000); Graduated in top ten of year;

Wright Rogers Scholarship;

BVC (2001): Bedingfield Scholarship from Gray's Inn.

Publications: 

Contributor to "London Maritime Arbitration" (2009).

"Extraterritorial Jurisdiction - European Responses", with Alexander Layton QC, Houston Journal of International Law, Vol 26 Winter 2004.

Contributor to both "Practical Law" and "ASIL Insights".

Appointments and Society Memberships: 

  • ComBar
  • Anglo-Hispanic Arbitration Association
  • Young International Arbitration Group

Lectures and Teaching: 

Lecturer at Wadham College (and Exeter College), University of Oxford2000-2001.

Visiting Scholarship at George Washington University, Washington DC (2005).

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