Commercial Arbitration
Commercial arbitration forms an integral part of Brick Court Chambers' workload. Our experience is gained before numerous tribunals, many with an international element. Practitioners at Brick Court Chambers appear before ICSID ICC and LCIA tribunals as well as specialist trade panels.
Members of Chambers have acted as counsel in arbitrations in the fields of insurance and reinsurance law, energy, telecoms, banking, information technology, sport and general trade and in contractual disputes. Many of the disputes have their seat in London, but in the last few years members have also appeared as advocates in arbitrations in venues in Europe and the Caribbean.
In the national courts Brick Court Chambers has been at the vanguard of shaping the law relating to arbitration. Ground-breaking cases such as Occidental v Equador, Exxon Mobil v Venezuela and Dallah Al Baraka v The Government of Pakistan, in which members of Chambers appeared, are regarded by the International arbitration community as shaping the global jurisprudence of BIT disputes.
In addition to appearing as advocates, our practitioners are frequently engaged as experts before arbitration panels. In the sports world we have been involved in arbitrations recently relating to cricket (Stanford 20/20), Formula One motor racing, football and tennis disputes.
Recent work includes:
- $1 billion claims arising out of the dilution of the Russian energy sector.
- A ground breaking challenge to jurisdiction of a tribunal set up under a bi-lateral investment treaty in the English court.
- Commercial arbitrations arising out of reinsurance of a Columbian State bank, mining joint ventures.
- Arbitrations concerning disputes arising out of 9/11 and the hurricanes Katrina and Rita.
- Occidental v Equador (Court of Appeal)
- Exxon Mobil v Venezuela (Commercial Court)
- Dallah Al Baraka v The Government of Pakistan (Supreme Court)
- C v D (Court of Appeal)
