Iain Milligan QC wins Silk of the Year in fields of Banking and Arbitration
Chambers UK Bar Awards 2010
Iain Milligan QC wins Silk of the Year in fields of Banking and Arbitration
Chambers UK Bar Awards 2010
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Fri, 20/1/2012
The members of 20 Essex are delighted to announce that Andrew Fulton will be joining chambers on 26 March 2012.
Andrew is currently with the US litigation firm Quinn Emanuel where he advises and appears in a range of financial and commercial disputes, often with an international flavour. His practice in recent years has focused on capital markets, derivatives and structured products. This has included Haugesund Kommune v Depfa ACS Bank, a €190m credit default swap dispute against UBS and...
Fri, 13/1/2012
The members of 20 Essex Street are delighted to announce that Stephen Atherton QC and Blair Leahy (formerly of South Square Chambers, Gray's Inn) will be joining Chambers with effect from 16th January 2012.
Stephen is an acknowledged leader in the field of offshore work and insolvency/restructuring. His cases include MF Global (for various clients of the bank), Bernard Madoff (for the liquidators of...
Wed, 11/1/2012
Members of Chambers congratulate Alexander Layton QC on his recent appointment as a trustee of the Academy of European Law in Trier (www.era.int). He becomes one of the 13 trustees individually chosen from the legal professions and judiciary across the 27 Member States.
Tue, 10/1/2012
At the invitation of SKULD, Hamburg, Sara Masters and Penelope Nevill were invited to address their annual Christmas conference on the topical and complex issue of the EU Sanctions regime.
Sara Masters addressed the commercial aspects of sanctions such as "when can a ship owner say no", the level of protection provided by standard sanctions clauses and working around the US sanctions regime. Penelope Nevill gave an introduction to the origins and workings of sanctions from a...
Tue, 13/12/2011
The issue in this case was whether a valid claim had been made for an extension of the delivery period in an FOB sale contract under the extension clause of GAFTA 120. This was the first case to consider this issue. Upholding the decision of the GAFTA Board of Appeal in an appeal under section 69 of the Arbitration Act, Hamblen J emphasised that the effect of a valid claim for an extension is to vary both parties' contractual rights and obligations, so that the parties need to know with...
Fri, 9/12/2011
Alexander Layton QC has recently completed a month-long visiting fellowship at the Center for Transnational Litigation and Commercial Law at New York University's prestigious School of Law, as part of their programme for prominent scholars and practitioners.
During his time there, in addition to undertaking research, he worked with professors in the faculty in teaching conflicts of law classes, delivered a lecture on Anti-Suit Injunctions and International Arbitration and...
Fri, 11/11/2011
Members of Chambers congratulate Professor Stefan Talmon on his recent appointment as the Chair of Public International and European Law and Co-Director of the Institute of Public International Law at the University of Bonn. He was previously at the University of Oxford (as lecturer, reader and Professor of Public International Law; and Fellow of St. Anne's College, Oxford).
