News & Events
News & Events
Andrew Spink KC will be speaking at COMBAR’s 6th India Roundtable Conference 2024 taking place on 21st September 2024 at The Oberoi Hotel, Delhi. The COMBAR India Committee was established in 2016 to promote links between the English commercial and arbitration Bar and their counterparts in India, taking advantage of the two jurisdictions’ shared legal heritage and frequent opportunities for cross-border work. The COMBAR 6th India Round Table 2024 – Delhi will take place on 20th and 21st September 2024, starting with a reception at the Imperial Hotel on the evening of Friday 20th September 2024 and finishing with a dinner at The Oberoi Hotel on Saturday 21st September 2024. The conference on 21st will begin with breakfast served for…
News 20 Sep, 2024
Outer Temple’s Lucian ILIE has co-authored the ‘Romania‘ chapter in the International Comparative Legal Guide – International Arbitration 2024 with Adrian Iordache from Consortium Legal. Lucian ILIE has co-authored the 21st edition of the ‘Romania‘ Chapter in the International Comparative Legal Guide – International Arbitration 2024 article alongside Adrian Iordache. 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 Relief and Interim MeasuresPart 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 here. Find out more Lucian ILIE is an English barrister, and a French and Romanian avocat specialising in international…
External Publications, News 19 Sep, 2024
Event Date: 10 Oct, 2024
You are invited to join Outer Temple Chambers for the launch of our Group Litigation Series on Thursday 10th October 2024 in London. Outer Temple Chambers is renowned for its expertise in a wide range of areas including Product Liability, Personal Injury, Industrial Disease, Medical Claims, Employment, Financial Services and Pensions amongst others. A growing number of these matters involve group actions and, if you have been instructed in such matters, you will recognise the need for a very different approach. The practice teams at Outer Temple Chambers have now joined forces to offer a series of advisory sessions on the unique aspects of group claims, with each session offering insights into the differences, similarities, and sharing of knowledge from…
Outer Temple Chambers is delighted to host the PNLA conference for the third consecutive year. Join us for ‘The Ultimate Round up – Professional Negligence & Liability’ on Thursday 3rd October here at Outer Temple Chambers, London. You are invited to join David. E Grant KC, Andrew Spink KC and Elaine Palser, who will be speaking alongside an array of fellow professional negligence experts throughout this full-day conference. Other speakers include William Flenley KC (Hailsham Chambers), Kathryn Jenkins (The Tumaini Trust), Matthew Pascall (Temple Legal Protection), Thomas Pangbourne and Rachel Auld (Indemity Law), David Osborne (Fraser Dawburns), Sue O’Brien and Sara Benbow (Property Mediators). The event will be chaired by Jayna Patel, Partner at Dutton Gregory and PNLA South of England…
News 16 Sep, 2024
Outer Temple Chambers is delighted to again be a co-sponsor of the flagship annual event for international injury lawyers; the PEOPIL Annual Conference, this year in Prague on 20th – 21st September 2024. The PEOPIL Annual Conference is a two-day event held in a different member country each year and will be taking place in Czech Republic this year. Outer Temple Chambers is delighted to co-sponsor this year’s conference including the welcome drinks reception and dinner on 19th and coffee break on the 20th. Outer Temple’s Travel Law maestro, Ian Denham, is a member of the PEOPIL General Board as representative for England and Wales and also Secretary of the PEOPIL RTA & Whiplash EEG. He will be attending the conference…
News 12 Sep, 2024
Ben Compton KC contributed to IOSH Magazine’s Sep/Oct 2024 edition on ‘Legal Perspectives on 50 years of the HSWA’. The full article can be accessed below. As the UK Health and Safety at Work Act 1974 celebrates its half-century, Paul Verrico of Eversheds, asked some of the UK’s leading legal practitioners for their views on its efficacy. Outer Temple’s Ben Compton KC contributed alongside other industry experts. The full article can be read here. Find out more Ben Compton KC is a specialist advocate in health and safety renowned for his extensive experience in civil and criminal courts, subsequent appeals at the Court of Appeal, and the Supreme Court, together with jury inquests throughout the UK. He is recognised as one of…
External Publications, News 10 Sep, 2024
Tom Gibson represented a young adult in his successful claim for the delayed diagnosis of his life-threatening sepsis. The claimant was just 28 years old when his GP failed to refer him to hospital one Thursday morning. By Friday evening he was seriously unwell. After a 999 call and an emergency ambulance to hospital, he was diagnosed with life-threatening sepsis. He then needed 4 months of hospital treatment – including over 3 months at a specialist centre in London, where he was put in an induced coma. He also needed ECMO [extracorporeal membrane oxygenation] treatment, a type of artificial life support, for 39 days. The claimant’s road to rehabilitation was a long one. He needed multiple fingertip and toe…
News 10 Sep, 2024
Chambers is deeply saddened to announce the death of our friend and colleague, Christopher Meiring. Chris died peacefully on 29 August 2024. He passed away surrounded by the love of his family and the comfort of his Christian faith. His strength and humour inspired all who knew him and he will be deeply missed. We send our love and condolences to his wife and very young family. A tribute to Chris from Saul Margo can be found here.
News 4 Sep, 2024
The UAE’s ability to effectively host increasingly complex international dispute resolution proceedings was evident in a recently settled $120 million dispute referred to arbitration in Dubai. In that case, the Dubai Court of Appeal unequivocally upheld the Dubai seated Arbitral Tribunal’s finding that it was a “competent judicial entity” with the same standing as a competent court to authorise the production of confidential information under the terms of Federal legislation restricting the circulation of such information. Philip Punwar (Dip. I.C. Arb., C. Arb) of Outer Temple Chambers was lead counsel for the Claimant, whose interpretation of the relevant legislation underpinned the Tribunal’s original decision. Find out more Philip Punwar is an English qualified practitioner with more than twenty-five years’ arbitration…
News 3 Sep, 2024
We are delighted to welcome Elliott Courcha and Sophie Hyland, who start their pupillage at Outer Temple Chambers today. Outer Temple Chambers is pleased to welcome new pupils Elliott and Sophie. Head of Pupillage, Saul Margo says “We are delighted to welcome Elliott and Sophie to Chambers. They overcame stiff competition to obtain pupillage at Outer Temple and we look forward to what is hopefully a successful and enjoyable year ahead.” Elliott Courcha Prior to studying law, Elliott had a ten year career as a doctor. He studied Medicine at the University of Cambridge and spent six years as a junior doctor gaining a broad range of experience in both primary and secondary care. He qualified as a General Practitioner in 2020 and has an…
News 2 Sep, 2024
Outer Temple Chambers is delighted to announce that the application window for our winter mini-pupillage is now open. Find out how to apply below. The application window for our mini-pupillage is now open; we are accepting applications up until 13th October 2024. Our winter mini-pupillage will run from Monday 9th December – Wednesday 11th December 2024. During the course of a three-day programme, mini-pupils attend a series of talks given by members of Chambers, participate in an advocacy exercise, and are taken on a walking tour of the Royal Courts of Justice and/or the Temple. The talks are designed to give mini-pupils an insight into Chambers’ core practice areas and into life at the Bar in general. There are also…
News 2 Sep, 2024
Outer Temple Chambers is pleased to welcome Amna Ali and Nikky Carabott as new tenants upon completion of their pupillages. We are delighted to share that after the successful completion of their pupillages, Amna Ali and Nikky Carabott accepted offers of tenancy and, as of today, are members of Chambers. Saul Margo, Head of Pupillage said: “Amna and Nikky have both had excellent years and have great careers ahead of them. We wish them well.” Amna Ali Amna Ali read law at New College, Oxford, graduating with a First in Jurisprudence, and was later awarded the Roche Scholarship for the BCL at the University of Oxford. During the BCL, Amna represented the University of Oxford in the ELSA Moot Court…
News 2 Sep, 2024
