Arbitrators

Ruth Kennedy

Ruth Kennedy

11KBW, London

    Position

    Specialist in commercial; public and human rights; public and private international law; employment and sports law.

    Appears before domestic courts and tribunals up to and including the Supreme Court; in public inquiries including the Post Office Horizon IT Inquiry; in international courts and tribunals including the European Court of Human Rights and the International Court of Justice; in arbitrations under the LCIA, ICC and UNCITRAL rules; and in specialist sports arbitrations including CAS.

    Career

    Acts in the most high profile and complex cases across her practice areas on behalf of a wide range of clients including states and governments; multinational corporations; financial institutions; NGOs; sports regulators; and athletes, clubs and teams.

    Member of the Attorney General’s London B panel and specialist Public International C panel of counsel.

    Memberships

    ALBA, BASL, COMBAR, ELA, ILS and LawInSport.

    Education

    BA (Hons) Jurisprudence, Oxford University; LLM (Distinction), UCL. Called to the Bar in 2015. Former positions held include: Research Assistant to Professor Philippe Sands KC; Teaching Fellow at UCL; Judicial Assistant to the Master of the Rolls, Sir Terence Etherton.

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