Phillip Aliker > Tanfield Chambers > London, England > Barrister Profile
Tanfield Chambers Offices
Tanfield Chambers
2-5 WARWICK COURT
LONDON
WC1R 5DJ
England
2-5 WARWICK COURT
LONDON
WC1R 5DJ
England
- Set Profile
- Go to...
Phillip Aliker
Position
His practice comprises multi-jurisdictional commercial contractual disputes for corporations and governments of high-value and often of considerable reputation risk and/or with significant political and/or economic implication. Currently representing Malaysian offshore companies in an arbitration under the Rules of LCIA, acting for a Nigerian Bank in the Chancery Division, acting for a Respondent NGO in proceedings by multiple claimants in East Africa including formulating and drafting arbitration clauses to meet potential jurisdictional objections under municipal law, acting for an Asian investor seeking to recover proceeds of investment in a proposed PPP in a West Africa state, and acting for an Asian Government to set aside an arbitral award. Phillip is currently sitting as a sole arbitrator in contractual disputes in Kenya under the Rules of the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators and in London under the LCIA Rules. He is recently accredited to UNCITRAL and with his interest in ISDS is recently designated by the Chairman of ICSID to the ICSID Panel of Conciliators. Recognised in Chambers & Partners 2016 as a Foreign Expert (Uganda and Kenya) in disputes with an East African connection.
Career
Qualified 1990; Inner Temple and Gray’s Inn, England and Wales; licensed as a foreign legal consultant in the state of New York; advocate of the High Court of Uganda and the courts of the East African Community; chartered arbitrator and accredited mediator.
Memberships
COMBAR; Property Bar Association; Chancery Bar Association; London Court of International Arbitration; Fellow Chartered Institute of Arbitrators; British Institute of International and Comparative Law; Liveryman of the Worshipful Company of Arbitrators; Uganda Law Society; East African Law Society.
Education
Vanderbilt University (BA 1985); University of Leeds (1988 LLB (Hons)); University of London (2003, Dip ICA); chartered arbitrator.