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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

Karen Maxwell

Karen Maxwell

Call: 1992

Languages: French; German (conversational)

Karen practises in commercial law and international trade, with a particular focus on arbitration and shipping.

After being called to the Bar, Karen practised at Twenty Essex where she established a commercial law practice. She then spent time at Practical Law, establishing and leading Practical Law Arbitration. Following the acquisition of PLC by Thomson Reuters, she was appointed Head of Current Awareness, with responsibility for updates published in Lawtel, Westlaw and Practical Law. Karen returned to resume her practice at Twenty Essex in 2016.

Karen is regularly instructed to advise and appear in shipping, shipbuilding and arbitration disputes. She has particular expertise in arbitration law and procedural issues relating to arbitration, including award challenges, appointments and arbitrator challenges, costs and enforcement. Karen also has extensive shipping law expertise, and has recently advised in several off hire disputes arising from Covid 19 infections on board vessels.

She writes and lectures widely on arbitration, private international law and shipping topics. Karen is the co-author of London Maritime Arbitration, the fourth edition of which was published in 2017. She accepts appointments in maritime and commercial arbitration references.

 

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Karen has a fantastic knowledge of the Arbitration Act and great insight into its application. She is creative in identifying solutions and an excellent, clear advocate.

The Legal 500 UK Bar 2024

Karen is a very experienced, bright and knowledgeable barrister with a strong commercial acumen.

Chambers UK Bar 2024

She has a brilliant mind and can find commercial solutions even in very complex matters.

Chambers UK Bar 2024

She is very knowledgeable and very user-friendly.

Chambers UK Bar 2024

Karen is efficient and very effective.

Chambers UK Bar 2022

She is personable and down to earth.

Chambers UK Bar 2022

Extremely bright, approachable and knowledgeable.

Chambers UK Bar 2022

Karen is extremely responsive and always on hand for ad hoc queries. She is quick to get to grips with the finer details of a matter and provides robust and clear-cut advice.

Chambers UK Bar 2021

Her written work is phenomenally good and well received.

Chambers UK Bar 2021

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