News & Events
News & Events
Join Outer Temple Chambers and guests for our upcoming Travel Law Conference. The event will be taking place in London on Thursday 13th October 2022 1pm – 5pm. You are invited to join Outer Temple Chambers and our esteemed guests at our upcoming Travel Law Conference. This event will include a number of topical talks on international injury claims. Agenda 13:00 Arrival and Welcome by Eliot Woolf KC (Chair) 13:15 Talk 1 – Enforcement and Torpedoes – All you need to know from a Spanish perspective! with David Sanchez Almagro of Estudio Jurídico Almagro 14:00 Talk 2 – with Daniel Clarke and Katherine Allen of Hugh James 14:45 Coffee Break 15:00 Talk 3 – Running PI claims North…
Events 6 Oct, 2022
We are proud to share that 25 Outer Temple Barristers and members of staff will be taking part in this year’s Tour De Law 2022 static bicycle challenge to raise money for Breast Cancer Now. This will be going ahead from 12th – 13th October 2022. Tour de Law is an annual static bike challenge that involves squads from different law firms and chambers in the UK racing against each other to raise money for Breast Cancer Now. Breast Cancer Now is a charity that aims not only to carry out life-saving breast cancer research but to also support and care for those going through treatment. If you would like to donate to this worthy cause, please click here. Any…
Events 5 Oct, 2022
Outer Temple’s Andrew Short KC and Helen Pugh have been published in the New Law Journal (LexisNexis). Their article is entitled ‘No green light (yet) for climate actions’. Andrew Short KC and Helen Pugh have written an article called ‘No green light (yet) for climate actions’ which has been published in the New Law Journal (Lexis Nexis). Within the article, they discuss the high hurdles still faced by claimants when bringing climate-related derivative actions. Please click here to read the full article. Find out more Andrew Short KC’s practice centres on pensions, employment, and general commercial work. He is able to bring years of experience as a trial lawyer in hostile and contentious claims to bear whenever necessary. He has been recommended for Pensions…
External Publications 5 Oct, 2022
The OAS Administrative Tribunal has handed down judgment in Griner v Secretary General of the OAS, judgment no. 169. Alex Haines and Victoria Brown appeared for the successful Complainant during a three-day hearing at the OAS’s headquarters in Washington DC in April 2022 before all six judges of the Tribunal sitting en banc for the first time. In its historic decision, the Tribunal changed the applicable standard of proof for cases of serious misconduct. The landmark win entirely vindicates Mr Griner, whom the Tribunal ordered be re-instated with back-pay, or be awarded the maximum available under the Tribunal’s Statute; the latter for only the second time in the Tribunal’s history, and for the first time since the 1980s. The Trump…
News 4 Oct, 2022
We are delighted to welcome our new pupil Carol Cheng to Chambers, who commenced her pupillage with us on 3rd October 2022. Outer Temple is delighted to welcome new pupil Carol Cheng to our set. We look forward to having her with us and are sure she will gain lots of invaluable experience. Prior to starting pupillage, she practised as a solicitor in the banking department at Linklaters (London) since 2017, following completion of a two-year training contract with Linklaters (Hong Kong) since 2015. She has also undertaken a secondment to the Leveraged Acquisition Finance legal team at HSBC, and was recently a High Court Judicial Assistant to Mr Justice Calver and Mr Justice Jacobs in the Commercial Court. She…
News 3 Oct, 2022
Outer Temple’s Nicolas Stallworthy KC and Richard Hitchcock KC will be speaking at White Paper’s upcoming Pensions Law Conference named ‘Pensions Law: Shaping New Developments into Solution-Focused Answers for your Clients’. This is being held on Tuesday 4th October 2022. White Paper are an organisation who provide advanced-level legal and business conferences. They are soon holding a conference entitled ‘Pensions Law: Shaping New Developments into Solution-Focused Answers for your Clients’ that aims to provide answers to the biggest legal matters facing the pensions industry. Nicolas Stallworthy KC is due to be answering the question ‘What are the practical and legal implications of the new notifiable events triggers and “declarations of intent”, and which corporate activities will likely be caught?’ Richard…
News 30 Sep, 2022
The Legal 500 UK 2023 Rankings have been announced and Outer Temple Chambers is delighted with the results. With over 60 barristers now holding rankings across 27 practice areas and some glowing feedback, we are honoured to have been described as a “go-to set” once again. We are particularly delighted that the hard work of our juniors has been noticed and would like to congratulate Bianca Venkata and Victoria Brown for their elevation from Rising Stars to a Tiered ranking. As they now start working their way up the ranks we welcome four new juniors into the Rising Stars category; Alex Cisneros, Carin Hunt, Imogen Egan and Olinga Tahzib. Congratulations also to Alex Haines, Clare Baker, David Haines, Joshua Hitchens…
News 29 Sep, 2022
Justina Stewart and Joshua Cainer identify seven key themes to take away from the Law Commission’s recently published ‘Digital Assets: Consultation Paper’. The Law Commission’s ‘Digital Assets: Consultation Paper’ is a masterful discussion of many key issues relating to digital assets. It comprises over 500 pages of legal analysis along with 47 questions for which the Law Commission has opened a period of consultation ending on 4 November 2022. It is also ideally timed – whilst the Law Commission’s proposals are only provisional (pending consultation), interest in, and disputes concerning, digital assets show no signs of abating. As practitioners continue to see an ever-increasing fallout from the so-called “crypto winter”, alongside gathering momentum on crypto-related fraud, margin call and mis-selling claims, much of…
Legal Blogs 28 Sep, 2022
Outer Temple’s Helen Pugh has written a detailed article titled ‘Misselling Cryptoassets’, where she explores the collapse of Terra USD and Luna. Helen Pugh has written an article discussing the lawsuit against Binance for ‘mis-selling’ of Terra USD and Luna after their massive collapse. This collapse was one of the biggest crypto crashes of all time, losing nearly $40 billion. Within the article, Helen examines this further by exploring three categories of claims: Misstatement/ misrepresentation claimsProfessional negligence; andRegulatory claims Please read the full article here. Find out more Helen Pugh specialises in general commercial litigation, civil fraud, contentious insolvency and company law issues, and professional negligence. Her practice has a strong international element with an expertise in jurisdictional disputes and conflict of law issues, including as they arise…
Legal Blogs 28 Sep, 2022
After a long running dispute, the DIFC Court of Appeal has dismissed the claim in Massun v Mousi & Ors. Outer Temple members, David Russell KC and Stephen Doherty, acted for the Second and Third Defendants. Stephen Doherty has written an article in relation to the Massun v Mousi & Ors case that he and David Russell KC were instructed on. They both acted for the Second and Third defendants. Stephen Doherty analyses the case in this article, exploring the different points of law relevant to individuals or families holding their wealth through complex corporate structures and trusts as well as potential risks that can come about. Please read the full article here. Find out more David Russell KC commenced…
News 28 Sep, 2022
Outer Temple’s Lucian ILIE has co-authored the Romania chapter in GAR – Investment Treaty Arbitration, along with Chloe Carswell from Reed Smith and Adrian Iordache from Consortium Legal. Global Arbitration Review (GAR) Know-how provides detailed information about individual jurisdictions in an easy-to-use-on-the-go, Q&A form. The Romania Chapter outlines the features of investor-treaty arbitration in Romania. It covers: an overview of investment treaty programme, its key features and qualifying criteria, substantive protections, the status of Romania’s investment treaties, and the practicalities of enforcing an investment treaty claim against Romania. You can read the full chapter here. Find out more Lucian ILIE is a barrister specialising in international law and international arbitration, with particular expertise in investor-State disputes and commercial arbitration cases. Combining experience of civil law culture with common…
External Publications 27 Sep, 2022
Outer Temple Chambers will be sponsoring the Professional Negligence Lawyers Association (PNLA) online conference as well as hosting their live closing event on 1st November 2022. Barristers, Richard Hitchcock KC, Nicholas Hill, and Helen Pugh will be speaking. Outer Temple will be sponsoring the upcoming PNLA online conference, to be held on 1st November 2022. This will be followed by a closing event that we will be hosting at chambers. The Professional Negligence Lawyers Association (PNLA), are an organisation who specialise in resolving disputes between professionals and their clients. Our barristers, Richard Hitchcock QC, Nicholas Hill, and Helen Pugh will all be speaking at the conference. Richard Hitchcock KC will be speaking on, ‘Some thoughts on Limitation: Knowledge and Concealment’,…
Events 26 Sep, 2022
