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Chambers of Lord Grabiner QC

TEMPLE, LONDON, EC4Y 9AR, ENGLAND
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Work 020 7583 2000
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430 LONDON CHANCERY LANE
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One Essex Court provides services in almost every aspect of domestic and international commerce and finance. Principal areas of practice are: commercial law, arbitration, company and insolvency, EU law, civil fraud, Revenue law (including VAT) and intellectual property. Chambers also has a pre-eminent team of energy lawyers, consistently ranked as the leading group at the Bar.

The set: Barristers at One Essex Court aim to offer practical and innovative advice based on commercial considerations. They appreciate the value of both prompt action and thoroughness and provide experienced, skilled and forceful advocacy where required. They understand the pressures under which solicitors and their clients operate and know that their own performance reflects on the solicitors who instruct them. Advisory work is, in most cases, time costed and where appropriate, charge rates can be negotiated before the commencement of work.

Chambers offers four 12-month pupillages every year. Under an award scheme, each pupil is offered the sum of £60,000 in his or her year of pupillage; part of the award may, at the discretion of chambers, be advanced during a prospective pupil’s year of vocational training. Applicants should normally have at least an upper second class degree and applications should be made through Pupillage Portal.

Types of work undertaken: Accounting and auditing, administrative and public law, agency, arbitration, aviation finance, banking, bills of exchange, breach of warranty, civil jurisdiction and judgments/conflict of laws, commercial, commodities, company, competition, derivatives, directors’ disqualification, economic torts, employment and industrial relations law, energy, European Union law, financial services and regulations, fraud, fund management, guarantees, information technology, insolvency, insurance and reinsurance, intellectual property, joint venture agreements, letters of credit, licensing and gambling, management buyouts, media and entertainment, mediation/ADR, mergers and acquisitions, mortgages, partnership, pensions, performance bonds, professional negligence, restitution and tracing, restraint of trade, sale and supply of goods, share and business sale agreements, shareholders’ agreements, sports law, tax/revenue law, telecommunications, and utility regulation.

For a more detailed list of the range of work carried out by members of chambers, please visit the website.

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  • COUNCIL TAX

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  • QUEEN’S SPEECH

    Bills already introduced pursuant to the Queen’s Speech on 9 May 2012 include Local Government Finance Bill and Electoral Registration and Administration Bill, both accompanied by Explanatory Notes, which in each case address ECHR compatibility.
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  • Standards

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  • Public Sector Equality Duty

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