Chambers of Steven Gee QC
4 FIELD COURT, GRAY'S INN, LONDON, WC1R 5EF, ENGLAND
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- Work 020 7440 6900
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- Fax 020 7242 0197
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- 483 LONDON CHANCERY LANE WC2
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A specialist commercial and shipping set, specialising in international commercial litigation and arbitration, established under the direction of leading Silk Steven Gee QC. Stone Chambers provides advocacy, advisory, arbitral and mediation services, representing clients in a wide range of courts and tribunals in England and Wales, European and international jurisdictions. They act as arbitrators, mediators and expert witnesses.
The set: Combining a dynamic, friendly and innovative approach with a comprehensive and client-focused service, Stone Chambers’ barristers provide leading expertise in matters ranging from urgent applications for relief, freezing and search orders, and other interim relief, through to trial and beyond.
Much of Stone Chambers’ work is international and several barristers hold practising certificates in some US states, Australia, Hong Kong, Singapore and a number of jurisdictions in the West Indies. Languages spoken include: French, German, Italian, Spanish, Urdu, Hindi, Gujarati and Mandarin. Barristers write or contribute to numerous publications, including Gee on Commercial Injunctions, The Maritime Law of Salvage, Law of the European Union, Halsbury’s Laws The Rotterdam Rules: A Practical Annotation,Bills of Lading in Export Trade, Bankers’ Law, PLC, Journal of International Banking and Financial Law and Lloyd’s List.
Types of work undertaken: Stone Chambers offers expertise in the following key areas:
Commercial: all aspects of international trade and commerce, contractual disputes, joint venture disputes; jurisdiction and conflict of laws, employment, professional negligence, construction and engineering, both on land and offshore.
Shipping: charterparty and bill of lading disputes; contracts of affreightment and containerisation contracts (including connecting carrier and slot chartering agreements); ship sale purchase; shipbuilding contracts; superyachts; offshore and shipping activities, including oil and gas, environmental, fisheries and conservation matters; Admiralty work, including arrests, collisions, salvage and general average.
Arbitration: arbitration law and practice, including ICC, GAFTA, LMAA, LCIA, LOF, UNCITRAL and CIETAC.
Injunctive relief: urgent interim relief, including freezing and search orders and anti-suit injunctions.
Commodities and sale of goods: international and domestic contracts, as well as related transactions (letters of credit, bills of exchange, insurance, FFAs, guarantees and performance bonds).
Insurance and reinsurance: all aspects of marine and non-marine insurance and reinsurance law.
Road, rail and air transport: carriage of goods and passengers, including terms of carriage, arrangements with freight forwarders/other transport intermediaries, regulatory/competition issues, environmental matters and safety.
Banking and finance: freezing orders, asset tracing, leases, loans, securitisation, bills of exchange, promissory notes, documentary credits, insolvency, mortgage enforcement and consumer credit.
Competition: advisory work and advocacy in all aspects of domestic and EU competition law – prohibited behaviour, market share, abuse of dominant position, damages claims in the context of the competition rules.
Civil fraud: injunctive relief (in particular freezing and search orders) in the context of civil fraud disputes; deceit actions, claims for knowing receipt and dishonest assistance; proprietary claims and equitable relief.
Employment: all aspects of employment law including unfair dismissal, discrimination, breaches of contract and TUPE.
Costs: specialist costs litigation, including conditional fee agreements and liability of professional funders.
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