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Malcolm Shaw KC KC
Position
Barrister focusing on public international law. Cases include: R v Mohamed Gul (CPS) – Supreme Court and Court of Appeal Decisions; R v Jones (CPS) – House of Lords decision; Noor Khan v Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs (Treasury Solicitor); Bancoult v Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs (Treasury Solicitor); Alamieyeseigha v CPS (Corker Binning) – High Court decision; Re AY Bank (Clifford Chance) – before High Court, Chancery Division; Ubamaka Edward Wilson v Secretary for Security and Director of Immigration – before Court of Final Appeal of Hong Kong. Appears before International Court of Justice eg Chad v Libya (Government of Chad); Cameroon v Nigeria (Government of Cameroon); legality of the declaration of Kosovo’s independence (Government of Serbia). Matters handled include, in addition, those relating to human rights; eg cases before European Court of Human Rights: Loizidou v Turkey (Government of Cyprus); Cyprus v Turkey (Government of Cyprus); Chiragov v Armenia (Government of Azerbaijan) and Sargsyan v Azerbaijan (Government of Azerbaijan) and to international commercial arbitration, oil production sharing agreements and to sanctions listing appeals. Publications of note: textbook on international law, books on territory, many articles.
Career
Called 1988; QC 2002.
Languages
French.
Memberships
Combar; British Institute of International and Comparative Law (trustee).
Education
University of Liverpool (LLB); Hebrew University of Jerusalem (LLM); University of Keele (PhD).
Leisure
Reading, music.
Lawyer Rankings
London Bar > Public international law
(Leading Silks)Ranked: Tier 2Malcolm Shaw KC –Essex Court Chambers ‘Very considered and knowledgeable. One of the leading minds in his field. Very user friendly. Excellent and concise written opinions.’
Essex Court Chambers is experienced in inter-state disputes, investor state proceedings and advisory opinions concerning public international law, where the set’s barristers have been instructed in numerous cases before the international courts and tribunals, namely the ICJ, ECHR and ITLOS. Among the sets work highlights is the Climate Change advisory proceedings before ITLOS and before the ICJ in which Ben Juratowitch is acting on behalf of the UK and leads Amy Sander before ITLOS regarding questions of state obligations to curb climate change under the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change and the Paris Agreement. Further members of the chambers involved in the ICJ case are Dan Sarooshi KC who represents the UAE and Sam Wordsworth KC who is acting on behalf of the government of Belize, leading Sean Aughey and Naomi Hart. Vaughan Lowe KC is part of a team representing South Africa, and Malcolm Shaw KC is part of a team representing Israel, in the South Africa v Israel ICJ case, in which South Africa alleges that aspects of Israel’s military response to the October 7th 2023 attack on it by Hamas amount to genocide. Tariq Baloch joined from 3 Verulam Buildings in October 2024.