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Contact with chambers should be made through the Practice Management Team. They are happy to discuss client requirements and provide further information on such matters as the expertise and experience of individual members, fees, working practices and languages spoken. We have members able to work in French, German, Italian, Spanish, Dutch, Swedish, Greek and Chinese (Mandarin).

Outside working hours, a member of our team is always available to be contacted on matters of an urgent nature. Contact should be made using the Chambers main number or email.

For our Singapore office, for client enquiries please contact our BD Director, Asia Pacific, Lara Quie and for all other queries please contact Lynn Quek. Out of office hours calls will automatically be diverted to our clerking team in London.

London

20 Essex Street
London
WC2R 3AL

enquiries@twentyessex.com
t: +44 20 7842 1200

Singapore

28 Maxwell Road
#02-03 Maxwell Chambers Suites
Singapore 069120

singapore@twentyessex.com
t: +65 62257230

Contact

Contact with chambers should be made through the Practice Management Team. They are happy to discuss client requirements and provide further information on such matters as the expertise and experience of individual members, fees, working practices and languages spoken. We have members able to work in French, German, Italian, Spanish, Dutch, Swedish, Greek and Chinese (Mandarin).

Outside working hours, a member of our team is always available to be contacted on matters of an urgent nature. Contact should be made using the Chambers main number or email.

For our Singapore office, for client enquiries please contact our BD Director, Asia Pacific, Lara Quie and for all other queries please contact Lynn Quek. Out of office hours calls will automatically be diverted to our clerking team in London.

London

20 Essex Street
London
WC2R 3AL

enquiries@twentyessex.com
t: +44 20 7842 1200

Singapore

28 Maxwell Road
#02-03 Maxwell Chambers Suites
Singapore 069120

singapore@twentyessex.com
t: +65 62257230

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Penal notices and the Babanaft proviso in anti-suit injunctions
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Commercial Court summarily dismisses $38 million claim for carried interest
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Nigeria v P&ID – the challenges for future cases
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Approaching an application to uplift multi-million pound security for costs in an eight-figure international fraud
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Eastern Caribbean Court of Appeal refuses leave to appeal to Privy Council against BVI winding-up order
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New application seeks to close gaps in vital UN human rights convention
New application seeks to close gaps in vital UN human rights convention
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High Court rules that a foreign state can be sued for alleged hacking of computers
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Complaint against insurance broker Marsh over its role in brokering the East African Crude Oil Pipeline (EACOP) project
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Considering bringing an RFI application? Is it strictly necessary?
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High Court hands down lengthy prison sentence for director’s contempts of court
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UN Working Group on Arbitrary Detention issues Opinion calling on the release and compensation by Iran, of a dual national woman
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Monica Feria-Tinta in deprivation of nationality and statelessness case
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Court of Appeal holds that the former King of Spain is immune in respect of pre-abdication allegations
Diplomatic immunity in the Court of Appeal
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High Court rules that a foreign state can be sued for alleged use of spyware
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