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The Rt Hon Sir Stanley Burnton

020 7583 2000 sburnton@oeclaw.co.uk

Position

Commercial arbitration, as arbitrator.

Career

Called 1965, Middle Temple; Silk 1982. Stanley Burnton practised as a barrister specialising in commercial law. He took silk in 1982. He acted both as advocate and arbitrator in international arbitrations. He represented Westland Helicopters in its long-running, and ultimately successful, ICC arbitration against the Arab Organisation for Industrialisation in Geneva (the enforcement proceedings are reported at [1995] QB 282), and was the arbitrator whose appointment was unsuccessfully challenged in Laker Airways v FLS Aerospace (1999] 2 Lloyd’s Law Reports 45. Stanley Burnton sat as a deputy High Court judge in the Chancery Division from 1994 until he was appointed to the High Court Bench (Queen’s Bench Division) in July 2000. He was nominated to the Administrative Court shortly after his appointment. He was subsequently the Judge in charge of Modernisation and the Court Estate and one of the original three judicial members of the Board of Her Majesty’s Court Service. He also served as a member of the Civil Justice Council. In April 2008 he was promoted to the Court of Appeal. He gave judgments in a number of arbitration-related cases, such as Euro Telecom International v Republic of Bolivia [2008) EWCA Civ 880 (on the availability of a freezing injunction in aid of international arbitration), Itochu Corporation v Johann MK Blumenthal GMBH & Co [2012] EWCA Clv 996, (a challenge to the appointment of the arbitrator), lngosstrakh-Investments v BNP Paribas SA [2012] EWCA Civ 644 (on grant of an anti-suit injunction to protect a London arbitration ), Broda Agro Trade (Cyprus) Limited v Alfred C Toepfer International Gmbh [2010] EWCA Civ 1100 (on the interpretation and effect of section 72 of the Arbitration Act 1996), and AES Ust-Kamenogorsk Hydropower Plant LLP v UstKamenogorsk Hydropower Plant JSC [ 2011] EWCA Civ 647, [ 2011] 2 Lloyd’s Rep 233 ( Injunctive relief in aid of a London arbitration). He retired as a Judge of the Court of Appeal on 25 October 2012, and returned to One Essex Court to practise as an arbitrator. He is an Honorary Fellow of St Edmund Hall, Oxford. London Current directorships: Trustee of the Slynn Foundation.

Languages

Fluent French.

Memberships

BIICL.

Education

Hackney Downs Grammar School; St Edmund Hall Oxford (1964, MA, jurisprudence).

Leisure

Classical music, theatre, travel.