Noted for its ability to ‘furnish experienced arbitrators’, One Essex Court contains part- and full-time arbitrators capable of sitting in a wide variety of international arbitrations, including those with a foreign seat. The set also maintains a dedicated team of arbitration clerks, separate from its clerking team for counsel instructions, to ensure a confidential service. Ian Glick KC sits as arbitrator in ad hoc and institutional arbitrations across the spectrum of commercial disputes, including those concerning civil fraud, competition, insurance, TMT and procurement. A former Court of Appeal judge, Dame Elizabeth Gloster brings her experience to oil & gas, LNG, insurance, banking, shipping and construction arbitrations. Further notable arbitrators include Christopher Style KC, Lord Neuberger and Peter Leaver KC.
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Highly experienced international commercial arbitrator. Peter Leaver has acted as sole arbitrator, a member of the arbitral tribunal and chairman, in numerous arbitrations, often under ICC, LCIA, SIAC, HKIAC and UNCITRAL Rules. Recent examples of cases include a dispute concerning the licensing of patents; a dispute arising out of a joint venture for exploitation of shale gas; a dispute concerning a negligence claim in the spacecraft and telecommunications industry; a dispute involving the intellectual property rights of partners in a joint venture; a dispute concerning modernistaion of the Russian Federation gas system; a dispute concerning the supply of defective and non-confirming products (batteries), in breach of two supply agreements; a dispute concerning a share of purchase agreement regarding the issued share of capital of a company providing courier delivery services in Russia and Kyrgyzstan; and a dispute concerning the finalisation of a binding worldwide license agreement under the Licensed Patents on FRAND terms and conditions.
Career
Called 1967, Lincoln’s Inn; QC 1987, KC 2022; contributor, ‘Pre-Trial and Pre-Hearing Procedures Worldwide’. Chairman of the London Court of International Arbitration (LCIA) 2008-12; president of National Anti-Doping Panel.
Languages
Working knowledge of French.
Memberships
Society of Legal Scholars; Chartered Institute of Arbitrators (MCIArb); Law Society’s Accreditation Panel of Arbitrators; Singapore International Arbitration Centre (SIAC); Hong Kong Arbitration Centre Panel; HKIAC’s Intellectual Property and Financial Disputes Panels; appointed to chairman’s list of the Sports Dispute Resolution Panel (SDRP).
Education
Aldenham School; Dublin University.
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