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 party disputes)
  • Commercial
  • Sale of Goods
  • Energy
  • Construction
  • Private International Law
  • Shipping

Principal Cases: 

Commerical Law

Angharad has extensive experience in both advisory and advocacy work in the field of commercial law.  Examples of recent work include:

  • Sole counsel in respect of a multi-million pound joint venture dispute
  • Sole counsel in respect of an international loan dispute, involving ongoing litigation in at least four jurisdictions
  • Sole counsel in respect of litigation arising from the explosion of an off-shore pipeline
  • Advisory work in respect of general contractual interpretation
  • Extensive advisory work arising out of frustration and force majeure cases, particularly those resulting from situations of supervening illegality, sanctions and civil unrest
  • Extensive experience of electronic disclosure in large-scale commercial cases.

She also regularly undertakes work in respect of relief such as freezing orders, anti-suit injunctions, and the discharge of such orders when made. 

Angharad has also acted as an expert on English law (particularly in relation to sale of goods and conflict of laws) in respect of foreign court and arbitral proceedings.

Recent reported or high profile cases include:

Beaver Navigation v Intercontinental Bank PLC [2011] EWHC 1287 (Comm):  Case concerning submission to jurisdiction in respect of caveats against arrest and arbitration clauses, and material non-disclosure in the context of anti-suit injunctions.

Florez and Others v BP Exploration Company (Colombia) Limited - currently acting as junior counsel for Colombian Farmers in High Court claims for loss relating to the OCENSA oil pipeline in Colombia. The case has attracted significant media and academic interest.

Arbitration

Counsel in CIArb arbitration relating to sale of defective industrial goods.

Counsel in  LMAA arbitration relating to alleged conversion of cargo

Counsel in LMAA arbitration concerning alleged wrongful arrest and breach of arbitration clause

Counsel (assisting a solicitor/partner) in multi-million dollar LCIA arbitration concerning rehabilitation of waste treatment facilities in Central America, and related insurance/reinsurance issues.

Junior counsel in a high value and long-running ICC arbitration relating to rehabilitation of energy/power plants in an emerging Eastern European market.

Junior counsel in an LCIA arbitration concerning insurance/reinsurance issues relating to construction of industrial scale farming facilities in Central America.

Junior counsel in an LCIA arbitration involving high value rehabilitation of a industrial farming facilities in a former USSR state, and related expropriation disputes.

Junior counsel in an LCIA arbitration relating to a high value commercial commodities dispute.

Counsel in a range of LMAA arbitrations.

Advisory work in relation to a number of ICSID claims.

Angharad also undertakes work under s67, s68 and s69 of the Arbitration Act 1996, and other work ancillary to arbitration.

Energy and Construction

Angharad has garnered a wide range of experience in both the energy and construction sectors.  Particular examples of her work include:

Sole counsel in respect of the English litigation arising from the explosion of an off-shore pipeline

Florez and Others v BP Exploration Company (Colombia) Limited - currently acting as junior counsel for Colombian Farmers in High Court claims for loss relating to the OCENSA oil pipeline in Colombia. The case has attracted significant media and academic interest.

Junior counsel in a high value and long-running ICC arbitration relating to rehabilitation of energy/power plants in an emerging Eastern European market.

Counsel (assisting a solicitor/partner) in multi-million dollar LCIA arbitration concerning rehabilitation of waste treatment facilities in Central America, and related insurance/reinsurance issues.

Junior counsel in an LCIA arbitration concerning insurance/reinsurance issues relating to construction of industrial scale farming facilities in Central America.

Junior counsel in an LCIA arbitration involving high value rehabilitation of a industrial farming facilities in a former USSR state, and related expropriation disputes.

Shipping

Angharad regularly undertakes advisory, arbitration and court work in respect of shipping disputes. She focuses on dry shipping work, advising and acting in respect of all aspects of charterparty and bill of lading claims. Moreover, she undertakes all work ancillary to shipping disputes:  notably cases concerning arrests and other forms of security.  Angharad has further experience of advisory and arbitration work in respect of ship sales and purchases.

Examples of her recent reported cases include:

Beaver Navigation v Intercontinental Bank PLC [2011] EWHC 1287 (Comm): Case concerning the effect of caveats against arrest.

Serena Navigation Ltd -v- Dera Commercial Establishment [2008] 2 Lloyd's Rep 166

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;

MBA (Cantab) (2010)

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 Oxford 2000-2001
  • Visiting Scholarship at George Washington University, Washington DC (2005)
  • Angharad currently teaches Commercial Law to the Finalist Undergraduates at the University of Cambridge

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