News & Events
News & Events
Outer Temple Chambers is delighted to announce that we have been shortlisted for Commercial Set of the Year, Commercial Silk of the Year, Commercial Junior of the Year and UAE Set of the Year at the Legal 500 Middle East and North Africa Awards 2025. Outer Temple Chambers (Commercial Set of the Year), Andrew Spink KC (Commercial Silk of the Year) and Justina Stewart (Commercial Junior of the Year) have been recognised in the Commercial category under the English Bar in the Middle East. We are overjoyed to also be ranked as the UAE Set of the Year. The awards will be taking place on Thursday, 30th January 2025 at Mandarin Oriental Jumeirah, Dubai, UAE. These awards reflect the competency…
News 23 Jan, 2025
9 members of Outer Temple’s International Team will be attending Dubai Arbitration Week (DAW 2024) between 11th – 15th November 2024, including The Bar Council Development event. Outer Temple’s David Russell KC, Andrew Spink KC, Philip Punwar, Justina Stewart, Sean Yates, Peter Linstead, Stephen Doherty, Lucian ILIE, and Lexie Johnson will be joining delegates at this year’s Dubai Arbitration Week. They will be available to meet up with colleagues during their time in the region. The team will be speaking at a number of seminars and events throughout DAW 2024, as well as the parallel UK-UAE Bar Council Business Development Event between 10-14th November 2024. UK-UAE Bar Council Business Development Event The Bar Council will be making its first business development visit to the UAE. Peter Smith…
Event Date: 12 Nov, 2024
Outer Temple Chambers’ International Arbitration specialists, together with experts from Stephenson Harwood, will be hosting a talk at Dubai Arbitration Week on ‘A “pro-arbitration” jurisdiction? Developments in the Enforceability of Arbitration Agreements, and Enforcement of Foreign Judgments and Arbitral Awards in the UAE’. Outer Temple Chambers is delighted to join our esteemed guest speakers from Stephenson Harwood for an insightful panel session which will address the key steps and practical considerations that parties should consider when seeking to proceed with the recognition and enforcement of foreign judgments and arbitral awards in the UAE. Outer Temple’s Stephen Doherty and Lucian ILIE will be hosting a talk at Dubai Arbitration Week 2024 on Tuesday 12th November 2024, alongside John Lewis and Caroline…
Join CFAAR’s Fireside Chat event with Outer Temple’s Crypto specialists Andrew Spink KC and Justina Stewart as they discuss important crypto legal developments in the DIFC. CFAAR is a group of legal industry professionals and intends to bring together some of the world’s leading names in crypto dispute resolution and advisory with the purpose of developing and sharing best practice in this rapidly evolving sphere and placing the UK and common law jurisdictions at centre stage for global crypto dispute resolution. Outer Temple’s Crypto specialists Andrew Spink KC and Justina Stewart are delighted to be joining CFAAR’s Fireside Chat discussing all things Crypto. Join Andrew Spink KC and Justina Stewart on Tuesday, 10th September 2024 at RPC, Tower Bridge House…
News 13 Aug, 2024
We are proud to announce that Outer Temple Chambers has been shortlisted across 16 areas, including ‘Set of the Year’ for Clinical Negligence, Employment, Personal Injury, Sport, and Technology Data & Crypto at The Legal 500 Bar Awards. The Bar Awards, presented by The Legal 500, celebrates the finest barristers, chambers, and legal expertise, bringing together some of the brightest minds in the industry. The awards evening will take place on Wednesday 25th September 2024, at Park Plaza Westminster Bridge London. Set Awards We are delighted to share that we have been shortlisted for the following Set Awards: Clinical Negligence Set of the Year – Outer Temple Chambers Employment Set of the Year – Outer Temple Chambers Personal Injury Set of the…
News 9 Jul, 2024
Event Date: 9 Jul, 2024
Join key members of the Huobi case for an insightful discussion on the key takeaway points from this landmark judgment on Tuesday, 9th July 2024 at The Ritz-Carlton, Dubai. We are delighted to invite you to join key team members on the Huobi case, Andrew Spink KC and Justina Stewart of Outer Temple Chambers, and Peter Smith of Charles Russell Speechlys LLP. Chaitanya Kediyal of Outer Temple Chambers supported the team in this case and will join the panel with his observations. The event will be chaired by David Russell KC of Outer Temple Chambers. In the much anticipated judgment, GATE MENA DMCC & HUOBI MENA FZC V TABARAK INVESTMENT CAPITAL LTD & ANR, the DIFC Court of Appeal (Justice…
Andrew Spink KC and Justina Stewart have succeeded in securing a re-trial in (1) Gate Mena DMCC (2) Huobi Mena FZC v Tabarak Investment Capital Ltd and another DIFC CA-002-2023 (‘Huobi v Tabarak’). In a much anticipated judgment, the DIFC Court of Appeal (Justice Black KC giving the leading judgment) has reviewed the law in relation to digital assets, and developed DIFC jurisprudence in other areas. The DIFC recently enacted wide-reaching legislative reform, in the form of the DIFC Digital Assets Law and Law of Security and associated amendments to numerous DIFC laws (a project on which Andrew and Justina, alongside other OTC members, were instructed). These bespoke and innovative legislative reforms, alongside the Court of Appeal’s decision in Huobi…
News 13 Jun, 2024
We are delighted to share that Outer Temple Chambers and our team of barristers have yet again been ranked for our commercial and construction expertise at the English Bar in the Middle East. Legal 500 announced their 2024 EMEA results and we are proud to have been ranked as a Tier 1 set in the ‘Middle East: The English Bar: Commercial’ guide including nine barrister rankings, as well as barrister listings in the ‘Middle East: The English Bar: Construction’ guide. These rankings reflect competency in providing expert advisory and advocacy services and facilities for Contract and Commercial, Construction, Financial, Regulatory, Taxation and Trusts, Employment, and Arbitration work in the region. Outer Temple Chambers and its members have been in the Middle East for nearly 20 years and is widely…
News 9 Apr, 2024
Four specialist panels, consisting of Outer Temple’s fraud team and an esteemed line up of external expert speakers discussed various topics concerning fraud at a breakfast seminar hosted at the Reform Club on Tuesday, 12th March 2024. Outer Temple Chambers’ fraud team specialists John McKendrick KC, Oliver Powell, Alex Haines, Nicholas Hill, Helen Pugh, Justina Stewart, Sophie O’Sullivan and Lucian Ilie alongside Natalie Todd of Cooke Young & Keidan, Romilly Holland of McDermott Will & Emery, Dan Wyatt of RPC, Nathan Capone of Fieldfisher and Neill Blundell of White & Case spoke at the breakfast seminar discussing all things fraud. The event kicked off with an opening speech from John McKendrick KC. Across four specialist panels, the speakers discussed various…
Events 15 Mar, 2024
Outer Temple Chambers’ digital assets, and banking and finance experts advised the DIFCA on innovative new laws on Digital Assets and secured transactions in September 2023, which have now been enacted. The new Digital Assets Law is considered to be ground-breaking as it is the first legislative enactment to comprehensively set out the legal characteristics of digital assets as a matter of property law, to provide for how digital assets may be controlled, transferred and dealt with by interested parties and to introduce an impairment regime that addresses the unique characteristics of digital assets. The new Law of Security is influenced by the UNCITRAL Model of Secured Transactions and significantly enhances DIFC’s securities regime to keep pace with international developments…
News 14 Mar, 2024
Event Date: 12 Mar, 2024
Join Outer Temple Chambers’ fraud team alongside other expert guests on Tuesday 12th March 2024 for our Fraud breakfast seminar hosted at The Reform Club. You are invited to join Outer Temple Chambers’ fraud team and expert guests from Cooke, Young & Keidan, Fieldfisher, Macfarlanes, McDermott Will & Emery and RPC for our event ‘The Four Faces of Fraud Disputes’. Across four specialist panels, our speakers will be discussing: The expanding landscape of corporate liability in criminal fraud offences: key implications and insights; Strategic thinking in civil fraud litigation in 2024; International perspectives: from fraud in the context of International Financial Institutions (e.g., the World Bank) to tales from the Middle East; and Key issues when faced with fraud allegations…
Outer Temple’s Nicolas Stallworthy KC and Justina Stewart will be speaking at the CLPD DIFC Mandatory Course on the ‘Changes to DIFC Legislation: New Digital Assets Law and Law of Security Regime’ on Friday the 1st of March 2024 from 9-11am (GST). The DIFC Academy, in association with Outer Temple Chambers, presents a CLPD DIFC Mandatory course on the ‘Changes to DIFC Legislation’. The DIFC has been working closely with experts, Nicolas and Justina, in the field of digital assets and banking and finance to create a first in kind Digital Assets Law and new Security Law Regime. The workshop will provide lawyers with practical insight and understanding of the new laws and legislative changes. This will be a hybrid…
News 26 Feb, 2024
