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Mr Nevil Phillips
Position
Barrister specialising in commercial and shipping law, including international contracts of sale, sale of goods, carriage of goods, energy, shipbuilding, insurance, insolvency and arbitration; Admiralty law including towage, salvage, collision; associated aspects of dry and wet shipping law.
Career
Qualified 1992; Gray’s Inn; visiting lecturer City University 1993-94; author ‘The Merchant Shipping Act 1995 – An Annotated Guide’, LLP; contributing author ‘Butterworths commercial Court and Arbitration Pleadings’, 2005; Editorial Board Member, Lloyd’s Law Reports.
Languages
French, Spanish (working knowledge in each).
Memberships
COMBAR; supporting member LMAA; Gray’s Inn; Middle Temple.
Education
Tunbridge Wells Technical High (later, Grammar) School for Boys; Southampton University (1990 BA Hons); City University (1991 Dip Law); University College, London (1993 LLM).
Leisure
Music, the arts, humour, family life.
Lawyer Rankings
London Bar > Shipping
(Leading Juniors)Ranked: Tier 1Nevil Phillips –Quadrant Chambers ‘Nevil is an excellent advocate and able to get on the right side of the court or tribunal with uncanny ability. He is very user-friendly and very good at explaining complicated issues to clients in an appropriate and sensible way.’
Regional International Arbitration – The Bar > Shipping and commodities
(Leading Juniors)Ranked: Tier 1Nevil Phillips–Quadrant Chambers ‘Nevil is a flexible and serene shipping counsel, who always focuses on the bigger picture without getting tied up on the minutiae.’