Chambers of Lionel Persey QC & Simon Rainey QC
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Simon Kverndal QC
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Position
Barrister, arbitrator and mediator specialising in all aspects of maritime and commercial arbitration and litigation. Practice is predominantly in international commercial arbitration (LMAA, LOF, ICC and trade associations), but recent reported cases include: (a) collisions and navigation: the ‘Koningen Beatrix’ Davis v Stena [2005] 2 Lloyd’s Rep 13; the ‘Barbarossa’ and the ‘Hagieni’ (David Steel J [2002] 2 Lloyd’s Rep 292); the ‘Bow Spring’ and the ‘Manzanillo II’ [2004] 1 Lloyd’s Rep 647, [2005] 1 Lloyd’s Rep 1 (CA); (b) jurisdiction and procedure: the ‘Berge Sisar’ [1998] 2 Lloyd’s 475 (CA); the ‘Lake Avery’ [1997] 1 Lloyd’s 540; (c) charterparty construction and cargo claims: the ‘Berge Sisar’ [2001] UKHL/17 (HL); the ‘Isla Fernandina’ [2000] 2 Lloyd’s Rep 65; the ‘MSC Rosa M’ [2000] 2 Lloyds Rep 399;; (d) statutory construction: ‘Greenpeace Barry 13’ R v Ayliffe [2006] 1 Lloyd’s Rep 86.
Career
Called 1982; Middle Temple; QC 2002; qualified and sits as mediator ADR Chambers; LoF arbitrator since 2006.
Member
ADR Chambers; COMBAR; BMLA; supporting member LMAA; assistant to the court Worshipful Company of Shipwrights (the shipping industry’s livery company).
Education
Haileybury; Sidney Sussex College, Cambridge (1980 BA; 1984 MA).
Leisure
Rackets, real tennis, golf, music, wine; member MCC, Hawks, Queens, Garrick.
Practice Areas
International commercial arbitration; Shipping - Admiralty; Shipping - marine
