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Miss Saira Paruk

020 7583 4444 saira.paruk@quadrantchambers.com

Position

Barrister specialising in commercial litigation and arbitration. Saira practises across the full range of chambers’ areas of expertise, including shipping, carriage of goods by land, air and sea, sale of goods, insurance and reinsurance, conflicts of laws, aviation and travel and general commercial and contractual disputes. She also has experience in insolvency, company law and chancery matters. Much of Saira’s practice involves arbitration, but recent court cases include: Enviroco v Farstad Supply A/S [2011] UKSC 16; Glencore Energy (UK) Ltd v Sonolo Israel Ltd [2011] EWHC 2756 (Comm); Aizkir Navigation Inc v AI Wathba National Insurance Company [2011] EWHC 3940 (Comm); Crowther and anr. v Rayment and anr. [2015] EWHC 427 (Ch); Carlos Soto SAU and anr. v AP Moller Maersk AS [2015] EWHC 458 (Comm); Corporate Oil and Gas Ltd v Marshall Aviation Services Ltd [2015] EWHC 3447 (Comm); and Polaris Shipping Co Ltd v Sinoriches Enterprises Co Ltd [2015] EWHC 3405 (Comm). For further details please visit www.quadrantchambers.com.

Career

Called 2004, Lincoln’s Inn.

Languages

French, German, Urdu.

Memberships

COMBAR.

Education

Haberdashers’ Aske’s School for Girls, Herts; St Hilda’s College, Oxford (2003 MA Oxon Law with French Law and 2005 BCL); University of Paris II (2002 Diploma in French Law).