Chambers of Lionel Persey QC & Simon Rainey QC
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Simon Rainey QC
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Position
Simon Rainey QC took Silk in 2000 and has advised and acted as an advocate for over 25 years in a wide range of commercial disputes for national and international clients. His principal area of practice is international commerce, embracing shipping, commodities, insurance, the ?carriage and sale of goods, banking and related disciplines. Many of his cases raise issues of private international law or arbitration law and practice. He appears mainly in the High Court (almost exclusively in the Commercial Court as well as the Admiralty Court) and the Court of Appeal and the House of Lords, and has extensive experience of arbitration having appeared before all of the main arbitral bodies and trade associations, and before ad hoc tribunals in this country and abroad His advocacy experience is in both long complex trials or arbitrations involving lengthy cross-examination of factual witnesses or experts or in short interlocutory hearings involving difficult points of law. He particularly relishes complicated legal disputes and also cross-examination, especially in cases involving heavy expert evidence. He is frequently appointed as arbitrator (LCIA, ICC, LMAA and ad hoc, sitting both sole and as co-arbitrator) and has given expert evidence of English law to courts in several countries. He also sits as a Recorder and as a Deputy High Court Judge in the Queens Bench Division. He has been cited for many years as a Leading Silk in the areas of Shipping, Commodities, Commercial Litigation and Dispute Resolution, International Arbitration, Energy and Natural Resources, and Insurance and Reinsurance and Professional Negligence by Legal 500 and Chambers and Partners.
Career
Qualified 1982; Lincoln’s Inn; QC 2000; recorder of Crown Court 2000 and Civil Court 2004; deputy High Court Judge 2008. Publications: ‘The Law of Tug and Tow and of Allied Contracts’ (2nd ed 2002); ‘Ship Sale and Purchase’ (3rd ed 1998); contributor Shipbuilding Contracts in ‘ The Maritime Laws of West Africa’ (1985); ‘The Evolving Law and Practice relating to Voyage Charterparties’ (2009); ‘The Carriage of Goods by Sea under the Rotterdam Rules’ (2010).
Languages
French, Italian.
Member
London Maritime Arbitrators Association.
Education
Cranbrook School; Corpus Christi College, Cambridge (1980 MA 1st Class Hons); Université Libre de Bruxelles (1981 Licence Spéciale de Droit Européen).
Practice Areas
Commodities; Energy; Shipping - marine
