NATHAN - Key Persons
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- Best Student in the Law of Evidence 1991
A Legg, ‘Jarvis and the FTT's jurisdiction to address human rights violations' (2013) 200 De Voil ITI 27
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- Associate
- Co - Chair of the IBA Arbitration Committee
Angeline currently serves as a co-chair of the IBA Arbitration Committee's ESG Subcommittee, on the ICC UK Selections Subcommittee, on the Arbitration Committee of the Lagos Court of Arbitration and as a board member for the ALN Academy.
Angeline Welsh is highlighted as "an excellent team player and a leader in the field". One source comments: "Angeline is wonderful to work with and incredibly sharp."
Angeline Welsh is "extremely knowledgeable and engaging", and her "wealth of experience on complex cases allows her to gain client confidence easily".
In CRF I Limited v (1) Banco Nacional de Cuba; (2) The Republic of Cuba [2021] EWHC 514 (Comm), Anton is acting (with Alison Macdonald KC) for the former Cuban central bank and the Republic of Cuba in defending a sovereign debt action for c. 72 million, brought by an alleged (indirect) assignee of the original lenders. Anton is also currently acting (with Nathan Pillow KC) for a bank claiming damages in excess of US$800 million in connection with transactions involving the replacement of loans with corporate bonds alleged by the claimants to be worthless. A jurisdiction challenge brought by three defendants was defeated in the first half of 2021: PJSC Otkritie Bank Financial Corporation v Mints [2021] EWHC 692 (Comm). There have been a number of reported judgments on other issues: see, e.g., [2020] EWHC 204 (Comm); [2019] EWHC 2061 (Comm). Anton is also acting in a related LCIA arbitration: a 5-week trial at which the Tribunal (Sir Christopher Clarke, Sir Rupert Jackson and Sir Stephen Tomlinson) heard evidence from around 20 witnesses from multiple jurisdictions. Anton has recently represented an asset management company in a claim relating to derivatives and structured product trades: FM Capital Partners Ltd v Marino & others [2018] EWHC 1768 (Comm). Other instructions include an advice for a major bank on the merits of defending a multi-million pound negligence claim brought by the subject of an erroneous credit reference, and for a ‘master merchant' providing online processing facilities for payments made using MasterCard, in a dispute concerning the terms of a merchant agreement. Anton has acted for and advised high street lenders in a variety of disputes with consumers and business customers. He has appeared in mortgage repossession hearings and on applications to obtain final charging orders and orders for sale. He has advised an Isle of Man company in relation to a claim arising out of a well-publicised collapse of a fund that attracted more than £60 million from individual investors, and acted for a major UK bank in connection with a Spanish law share pledge securing a large corporate loan.
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- Clyde & Co LLP [2014] UKSC 32
Bates van Winkelhof v Clyde & Co LLP [2014] UKSC 32: Acted as junior counsel to Tom Linden KC and David Craig for the successful appellant, a former member of the Respondent LLP. The Supreme Court held that the appellant was a worker within the meaning of s.230(3) (b) of the Employment Rights Act 1996 and thus entitled to bring a whistleblowing claim against the LLP.
Christopher has been instructed in a variety of trusts disputes, in England and commonwealth jurisdictions, including breach of trust claims and applications to remove trustees. He also has experience advising on the trust law elements of commercial disputes, particularly on constructive and resulting trusts, following and tracing, and other equitable remedies.
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- Professor of Public International Law at the University
Dapo Akande is a Professor of Public International Law at the University of Oxford. He joined Essex Court Chambers in December 2020 to develop his practice as adviser and advocate in public international law.
Professor Akande has acted as counsel, advocate, adviser or consultant in cases before the International Court of Justice, the International Tribunal for the Law of the Sea, the European Court of Human Rights, international arbitral tribunals in mixed disputes, World Trade Organization and North American Free Trade Area Dispute Settlement panels. He has also acted as consultant/adviser in cases in national courts, including the UK Supreme Court.
He is one of the authors of Oppenheim's International Law: The United Nations (2017, OUP), which was awarded the 2019 Certificate of Merit by the American Society of International Law. He is one of the editors of the Oxford Guide to International Humanitarian Law (2020, OUP); of Human Rights and 21st Century Challenges: Poverty, Conflict and the Environment (2020, OUP), and of Practitioners Guide to the Application of Human Rights Law in Armed Conflict (2016, OUP). He was a member of the International Advisory Panel for the American Law Institute's project on the Restatement Fourth, The Foreign Relations Law of the United States (2018). He has acted as consultant, expert, or adviser on international law issues to United Nations bodies, the African Union Commission, the Commonwealth Secretariat, and the Association of South East Asian Nations (ASEAN). He was recently nominated by the UK for election to the United Nations International Law Commission.
In the course of her post-graduate studies, Gretta has been exposed to a number of areas of law that touch on European regulations. She is well-versed in European constitutional law and has studied European regulations relating to air quality, water and counter-terrorism measures, including terrorist financing.
Gretta put this expertise into action in her role with Rights Watch UK, where she was Senior Legal and Policy Officer prior to commencing pupillage. There, she was exposed to a number of areas of international law, including matters relating to the international law of statelessness, the law of diplomatic and consular protection, and a specific focus on the scope and limits of extra-territorial application of human rights treaties and the question of functional jurisdiction. She is well-versed in the jurisprudence of the ECHR, the UNCHR and academic writings pertaining to these issues. In the course of her role at Rights Watch UK, Gretta was lead researcher in respect of an ongoing report into the arbitrary detention of European nationals in camps in North-East Syria, and lead research in respect of all components of that report "Europe's Guantanamo".
Finally, Gretta represented New Zealand in the Philip C Jessup Public International Law Moot, where she was ranked 14th best speaker in the world. She returned three years later as coach to the New Zealand team, which won the prize for best overall Applicant team.
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- Editor for Report on "the Current State and Future of International Arbitration
Kluwer blog: "The relationship between arbitrators and parties: is the pure status theory dead and buried?" 17 June 2011 (co-author with Matt Gearing);
The World Arbitration and Mediation Review, ITA: "The law applicable to the award of interest: A roadmap through the maze" 2011, Volume 5, No.
James is a highly sought-after junior for civil fraud and asset tracing disputes. He is recommended as a leading junior by each of Chambers & Partners, Legal 500, and Who's Who Legal, which described him in 2017 as "One of the most rapidly rising stars in this field" and a "future leader at the Bar." In 2018 Who's Who Legal ranked James as one of three most highly regarded juniors at the Bar in this field, describing him as an "absolute megastar", and listed him among a small pool of "rising stars" at the junior bar under 15 years' call. Most recently he is described as a "go-to junior who has participated in a number of landmark fraud cases and is particularly knowledgeable about freezing orders" (Chambers UK 2022), "A real brain box who co-edited one of the leading books on fraud" (Legal 500 2022), and "a very switched-on advocate" who is "briefed above the level of his call" (Chambers UK 2021).
James is a contributing author to Civil Fraud: Law, Practice & Procedure, first edition published by Sweet & Maxwell in 2018.
Since 2015, James has been consistently ranked as a leading junior for commercial chancery disputes by Chambers & Partners (UK and Global): most recently he is described as "Very well regarded and excellent to work with. He's a good team player and is very bright and hard-working" (2022), and as "An absolutely super junior - he is very, very clever. He has a great manner with clients (2021).
James is the author of an article published in the Journal of International Banking and Financial Law in 2019 entitled Make-whole payments in English financial law: an insolvency perspective (2019) 6 JIBFL 374.
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- Member of Both the Employment Law Barristers Association
Jane is a committee member of both the Employment Law Barristers Association and the European Circuit.
Jessica Wells has a broad commercial and international practice, with a particular interest in public international law, public law, shipping law and international commercial arbitration. In 2017, she was appointed to the Attorney General's "A Panel" of Public International Law Counsel.
Jessica is experienced in both advisory work and litigation before the domestic courts (including the Supreme Court, Court of Appeal and the High Court) and international tribunals (including the ICJ, ICSID, ICC, LCIA and LMAA).
Job Titles:
- Prize - Best Student, LL.B Part II Examinations 1990
Robert Tchenguiz v Serious Fraud Office. Acting (with Joe Smouha KC and Alex Bailin KC) in the high-profile dispute between Robert Tchenguiz and the SFO. The damages claim in trespass and false imprisonment was for lost business following a dawn raid on the homes and business premises of the property entrepreneurs, Robert and Vincent Tchenguiz. Several interim applications are reported: [2013] EWHC 1578, [2014] EWHC 1103, and [2014] EWHC 1315. In the course of the proceedings, Anton appeared (on his own) against a KC and two juniors from One Essex Court in a heavy disclosure application in the Commercial Court.
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- Visiting Scholar, University of Melbourne Law School, 2015
TEC Desert - Chief Legal Officer
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- Commissioner
- Senior Counsel
TEC Desert v Commissioner of State Revenue (2010) 241 CLR 576 (assisting senior counsel in the High Court of Australia): concerning issues of taxation law, mining law, and the distinction between fixtures and chattels;
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- Assisted Professor
- Professor
Assisted Professor Vaughan Lowe KC in the matter of C and Others Director of Immigration and Another (before the Court of Appeal in Hong Kong)
Instructed (with Sir Frank Berman KCMG KC) in an ICSID arbitration addressing issues of treaty law
Advised (with Sam Wordsworth KC) as to the effect of Libyan financial sanctions