Chambers of Iain Milligan QC
LONDON, WC2R 3AL, ENGLAND
- Tel:
- Work 020 7842 1200
- Fax:
- Fax 020 7842 1270
- DX:
- 0009 LONDON CHANCERY LANE WC2
- Web:
- www.20essexst.com
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This long-established, progressive set of chambers is one of the leading sets in commercial law. Members advise on all aspects of international trade, commerce and finance with specialist expertise in banking, shipping, insurance, public international law, and European Community law. Chambers is situated in purpose-built accommodation in Essex Street, which provides conference and arbitration facilities for clients, and is based close to the law courts.
The set: Although much of chambers’ work is in the commercial court, the practice and clientele are international. Chambers aims to combine an outstanding standard of work with a friendly and approachable attitude to clients, lay and professional. In 2006 Chambers was awarded The Queen’s Award for Enterprise in recognition of its outstanding contribution to international trade. In 2010 Chambers opened an annex at Maxwell Chambers, Singapore.
Types of work undertaken: Commercial: members of chambers advise on a range of commercial matters, including the following: Admiralty; agency; arbitration; aviation; bailment; banking and financial services; carriage by land, sea and air; commodities and futures, company law and partnership; competition; conflicts of law; construction; disciplinary proceedings; entertainment law; insurance and reinsurance; international sales and commodity trading; IT; oil and gas; professional negligence; sale of goods; shipping; sports law; and all types of domestic and international commercial agreements.
European Union: a number of members are specialists in European Community law and are regularly engaged to provide advice and representation to Community institutions, member states and other litigants on such issues as agriculture, the free movement of goods, those relating to individuals, services and capital, competition and state aids.
International: members of chambers engaged in this field appear before the International Court of Justice and other international tribunals.
Some members specialise in public international law, dealing with such matters as boundaries, interpretation of treaties, state immunity, international investment and human rights. Those practising in these areas appear as advocates in the International Court of Justice, the European Court of Human Rights, Dispute Settlement Panels of the World Trade Organisation, the International Tribunal on the Law of the Sea, and comparable tribunals.
Members also practise in private international law, including the Brussels Regulation on Jurisdiction and the Enforcement of Judgments and the Rome Convention on the Law Applicable to Contractual Obligations. Some have experience of conducting litigation before the Court of Justice of the European Communities on the Brussels Regulation.
Senior members and arbitrator members accept appointments through chambers to conduct inquiries and act as arbitrators and mediators. Members will accept instructions to appear in courts abroad, including Hong Kong, Singapore, Malaysia and other jurisdictions subject to admission rules, whilst some members have been called to the local bars of Australia, the British Virgin Islands, Gibraltar and South Africa.
A number of members are authors and editors of leading publications and journals, full details of which are available on chambers’ website at www.20essexst.com.
Foreign languages spoken: French, German, Italian, Spanish, Dutch, Hindi, Greek and Mandarin.
Above material supplied by 20 Essex Street (Chambers of Iain Milligan QC).