News & Events
News & Events
We are pleased to share that Samuel Cuthbert will be speaking at the 9th edition of LawInSport Global Summit 2023 – Understand The Rules Of The Game on 9th October. Outer Temple’s Sports Law barrister, Samuel Cuthbert will be presenting a talk on ‘Integrity-What does the future of integrated approaches to sports integrity look like? ‘ at the LawInSport Global Summit 2023 taking place at 1 Wimpole Street, London on 9th and 10th October. The conference provides attendees with two full days of interactive panel discussions, with world leading experts discussing the contemporary legal issues impacting global sport. Samuel Cuthbert, alongside Nobert Rubicsek of Sport Integrity Group and Kevin Carpenter of International Table Tennis Foundation will host the first out…
News 2 Oct, 2023
On 19 and 20 September 2023, Philip Punwar presented his 20th annual lecture on International Commercial Arbitration at the Arbitration Foundation of Southern Africa in Johannesburg. The Arbitration Foundation of Southern Africa (AFSA) and the University of Pretoria offer legal practitioners, accountants, trade union delegates, human resources practitioners, psychologists, engineers, architects, labour practitioners and businesspeople an opportunity to develop their skills in South Africa’s ever-expanding fields of arbitration and mediation. Philip Punwar of Outer Temple Chambers, alongside Advocate Michael Kuper SC and Prof David Butler presented the specialist module on International Commercial Arbitration held from 18 – 22 September 2023. The module covered: The New York Convention and the UN Model Arbitration Law; The South African International Arbitration Act; AFSA’s…
News 2 Oct, 2023
Outer Temple Chambers is delighted to welcome leading group claims and serious injury silk, Harry Steinberg KC, to the team. Harry is a leading silk specialising in personal injury, sports law, private international law and group litigation. Harry has specialised in industrial disease and mesothelioma since his junior days and he is described as having “…an exhaustive knowledge of asbestos disease issues” by Chambers & Partners. He is the chief editor of the leading textbook, “Asbestos: Law and Litigation” (Sweet & Maxwell, 2nd edition, June 2022). He has appeared in many of the landmark cases that have shaped this area of law. His personal injury practice also focuses on high value and complex serious injuries and he is currently acting…
News 28 Sep, 2023
Outer Temple members John McKendrick KC and Nicholas Hill will be providing advanced advocacy skills training at the second part of the DIFC Laws Certificate programme. This training will take place on 9th to 10th October 2023. The DIFC Academy are hosting a course named ‘Advanced Advocacy Skills‘ which is part of the DIFC Laws Certificate programme. This comprehensive training explores the application of traditional advocacy skills to activities routinely performed by lawyers. There will be series of both unassessed and assessed advocacy exercises. These exercises take the form of mock hearings covering submissions (written and oral), witness handling and general advocacy tips. They serve as useful refreshers for courtroom skills. This will be the second out of the three parts to the course, all…
News 25 Sep, 2023
Outer Temple’s Lucian ILIE has co-authored the ‘Romania‘ chapter in the International Comparative Legal Guide – International Arbitration 2023 with Adrian Lordache from Consortium Legal. Luican Ilie of Outer Temple has co-authored the 20th edition of the ‘Romania‘ Chapter in the International Comparative Legal Guide – International Arbitration 2023 article alongside Adrian Lordache. The article covers common issues in International Commercial Arbitration, divided into 15 different parts: Part One : Arbitration AgreementsPart Two: Governing LegislationPart Three: JurisdictionPart Four: Choice of Law RulesPart Five: Selection of Arbitral TribunalPart Six: Procedural RulesPart Seven: Preliminary ReliefPart Eight: Evidentiary MattersPart Nine: Making an AwardPart Ten: Challenge of an AwardPart Eleven: Enforcement of an AwardPart Twelve: ConfidentialityPart Thirteen: Remedies/Interests/CostsPart Fourteen: Investor-State ArbitrationPart Fifteen: General Read full article Read the Romania chapter…
External Publications 21 Sep, 2023
Sean Yates writes for Lexis Nexis Middle East analysing a case heard by the DIFC Court of First Instance titled ‘The DIFC Courts Apply Riyadh Convention Provisions in a Claim for Recognition of a Foreign Judgment’. On 13 September 2023, in Murex Gulf Properties Company K.S.C.C. v The Investment Dar Company K.S.C.C. (Murex), the DIFC Court of First Instance heard an application from the Claimant to amend its claim form. In this article, Sean Yates expertly dissects the implications and significance of this groundbreaking amendment application. Analysis The analysis was published by Lexis Nexis Middle East on 13th September and can be found here (subscription required). Find out more Based in Dubai, UAE, Sean specialises in international arbitration and civil…
External Publications 20 Sep, 2023
The final report of the Brook House Inquiry, in which Paul Livingston was Junior Counsel to the Inquiry, was published yesterday, 19th September 2023. The Inquiry, chaired by Kate Eves, was established to investigate the mistreatment of people detained at Brook House Immigration Removal Centre from April to August 2017, following a BBC Panorama investigation which was broadcast in September 2017, showing covert footage recorded over that period. The Inquiry found 19 incidents in which there was credible evidence of acts or omissions that were capable of amounting to mistreatment contrary to Article 3 of the European Convention on Human Rights, including inappropriate use of force, unnecessary infliction of pain, physical violence, threatening and humiliating comments, and inappropriate segregation. Findings…
External Publications 20 Sep, 2023
The New York State Bar Association London Chapter annual event will be hosted by Outer Temple Chambers and CANDEY on Thursday 19th October 2023. Alex Haines and Rachel Roche – Co-Chairs of the NYSBA London Chapter – will present the event chaired by Sophie O’Sullivan, member of OTC’s Business Crime, Regulations and Sanctions Team. Sophie will be joined by fellow sanctions experts Charlie Steele, former OFAC Chief Counsel, and Duncan Henderson, Partner at CANDEY. The specialist panel will address the latest sanctions law trends from both a US and UK sanctions framework perspective, including challenging designations, licensing, and enforcement actions. The event will take place at Chancery House, followed by a drinks reception at the CANDEY offices in Lincoln’s Inn. Agenda…
Events 13 Sep, 2023
Nathan Tavares KC will be speaking at the APIL Annual Clinical Negligence Conference 2023 taking place between 27th – 29th September at the Hilton Brighton Metropole. Nathan Tavares KC of Outer Temple Chambers, also a member of the JPIL Editorial Board will be speaking alongside JPIL colleagues at the annual APIL Clinical Negligence Conference 2023 on the ‘JPIL Case and Comment’ segment on the first day of the conference. The Conference will be held in Brighton at the Hilton Metropole and will be a hybrid event. The APIL conference has been taking place for two decades and this 21st event will see medical consultants, expert witnesses, and leading practitioners come together to provide valuable specialist insight into clinical negligence cases…
Events 12 Sep, 2023
We are delighted to announce that upon completion of their pupillages, Charlotte Elves and Katherine Hampshire have officially joined Chambers as members. Outer Temple Chambers is delighted to announce that after twelve months of hard work and upon completion of their pupillages, Charlotte Elves and Katherine Hampshire accepted offers of tenancy and are now official chambers members. We wish them the very best in this new journey, and long, happy and successful careers at Outer Temple. Charlotte Elves Charlotte Elves joined Outer Temple Chambers as a pupil in September 2022. Prior to starting pupillage, Charlotte was the Singer Fellow in Medical Law and Ethics at Exeter College, University of Oxford, where she taught Medical Law, Criminal Law, and Jurisprudence. Her…
News 11 Sep, 2023
We are delighted to announce that Helen Pugh of Outer Temple Chambers will be speaking at Informa’s Gibraltar Digital & Crypto Funds Conference this Thursday. Helen Pugh of Outer Temple Chambers will be joining Elliott Phillips, Partner, and Kate Gee, Counsel, both of Signature Litigation, to discuss ‘Litigation of crypto disputes: Exploring future prevalence and form of dispute resolution’. The conference will focus on the landscape for regulation and dispute resolution of digital and crypto funds within Gibraltar and Europe. Speakers and attendees include leading digital asset managers, digital asset investment platforms, blockchain providers, regulators and legal specialists. The talk with Helen, Elliott and Kate will focus on: The expected prevalence of disputes and litigation following high profile corporate collapses;…
Events 11 Sep, 2023
Outer Temple’s David Russell KC will be speaking at the Private Client Informa Connect Conference on Cross-Border Planning: Wealth Management Solutions for the New Age Business Family between 25th and 26th October 2023, at the Sofitel Dubai Downtown. The Informa Connect Conference will focus on key issues facing the internationally mobile private client discussed by both local and international practitioners. Topics will include succession planning, immigration, family governance and family offices, and business law developments. The two-day event will start off with a pre-conference dinner on 25th October followed by a full-day conference on 26th October with various speakers. David Russell KC will act as moderator alongside speakers Yasmine Omari of EY and Cynthia Trench of Trench & Associates as…
Events 6 Sep, 2023
