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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

Oliver Caplin KC

Oliver Caplin KC

Silk: 2024 Call: 2012

Languages: Italian (conversational)

Oliver is an experienced advocate. He took silk in 2024 at just 11 years’ call.

He has appeared at all levels of the English Court system, including appellate work in the Supreme Court and Court of Appeal, and trials and applications in the Commercial Court. He also acts in international arbitrations in London and around the world (including under the LCIA, LMAA, ICC, SIAC, HKIAC and SCC Rules). He is equally happy acting alone or leading a team of junior counsel.

He has a broad commercial practice which particularly focuses on international trade, insurance (in particular war risks insurance), energy, jurisdiction, and dry-shipping disputes. Oliver has developed particular expertise in the area of anti-suit injunctive relief.

Oliver’s insurance work comprises both marine and non-marine work. He acted for Greggs Plc in its major Covid-19 BI claim and continues to provide regular advice in relation to other such claims. He is the co-author of Miller’s Marine War Risks (4th ed) and has advised extensively on insurance issues arising from current global instability affecting commercial shipping and trade.

His pure commercial work spans a number of different sectors, including up and downstream oil and gas, energy infrastructure projects, renewables, and pharmaceuticals. Many of his cases involve jurisdictional or other conflicts of laws issues.

Before he took silk, he was ranked as a leading junior for shipping, international trade, and insurance by Chambers and Partners (UK Bar and Global), The Legal 500 (UK Bar, Asia Pacific) and Who’s Who Legal. He was nominated for “Shipping Junior of the Year” in 2021 and 2023 by Chambers and Partners and for “Shipping and Commodities Junior of the Year” by The Legal 500 in 2022.

Oliver first trained and worked as a medical doctor before coming to the Bar. As a result he is comfortable working on commercial cases in the life sciences industry, including those which require a detailed understanding of the technical medical or scientific context of the dispute.

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Oliver is commercially astute, personable and his written submissions are always extremely impressive.

Chambers UK Bar 2024

Oliver is a superb advocate. He delivers the points that need to be made in a clear and measured way.

The Legal 500 UK Bar 2024

He is brilliant, really patient and can explain the UK system to international clients very well.

Chambers UK Bar 2024

Oliver is very clever, extremely efficient and an expert in jurisdictional issues.

Chambers UK Bar 2024

Oliver is an excellent barrister whose advocacy is clear, concise and perfectly delivered.

The Legal 500 UK Bar 2024

Highly responsive, commercially savvy and incisive.

The Legal 500 UK Bar 2024

However pressurised the situation, he is calm, responsive and he punches above his weight, a go-to senior junior for commodities disputes.

The Legal 500 UK Bar 2023

Oliver has an incredibly sharp legal mind.

The Legal 500 UK Bar 2023

He has the ability to cut through the noise and identify the key issues in the case, and he is very responsive, dedicated and thorough.

The Legal 500 UK Bar 2023

Oliver is tactically smart and commercially astute

Chambers UK Bar 2023

Oliver provides sound and commercial advice, responds promptly and is able to quickly grasp concepts that may sometimes be pretty technical (especially in the shipping/commodities industry).

The Legal 500 Asia Pacific 2023: The English Bar

He is excellent in terms of his willingness to work with the team.

Chambers UK Bar 2023

Oliver is very good on his feet.

Chambers UK Bar 2023

A senior junior that is more than capable of mixing it with silks, he is calm, affable, extremely responsive, strategically astute and a true specialist in the area.

The Legal 500 UK Bar 2022

He exudes calm and confidence and is a very clear communicator.

Chambers UK Bar 2022

He has a very calm manner and pleasant disposition, but never misses a trick.

The Legal 500 Asia Pacific 2022: The English Bar

Always calm and affable. He never appears stressed or off his stride whoever he is up against. Oliver is a senior junior who can be easily pitted against QCs and can prevail.

The Legal 500 UK Bar 2022

Extremely thorough and very responsive.

The Legal 500 Asia Pacific 2021: The English Bar

'impressively bright' with strong experience in dry shipping disputes

Who's Who Legal 2021

A very impressive junior who really knows his stuff and is ahead of the game.

The Legal 500 UK Bar 2021

He is supremely organised and turns work around swiftly - a go-to barrister.

Chambers UK Bar 2021

A great barrister and well-liked by clients.

The Legal 500 UK Bar 2021

He has the calm approach, meticulous preparation and knowledge to stand up against anyone.

The Legal 500 Asia Pacific 2020: The English Bar

A silk in the making, Oliver is superb all round and has fast become a go-to barrister for trade and shipping work.

Chambers UK Bar 2020

Totally unflappable, he can stand up against anyone and appears far more experienced than his years of call; first-class in high-value oil trading cases.

The Legal 500 UK Bar 2020

He is well thought of by judges, who are all charmed by him, even the very tough ones.

Chambers UK Bar 2020

Extremely user-friendly, efficient and extremely bright.

The Legal 500 UK Bar 2020

'Impressively bright'

Who's Who Legal 2020

He is very responsive, organised and proactive and has an impressive work ethic; his calm unflappable demeanour assists him in managing clients and expectations.

The Legal 500 UK Bar 2019

Oliver Caplin is one of the most prominent shipping juniors at the Bar, gaining recognition for his adept handling of complex dry shipping and commodities disputes.

Who’s Who Legal 2019

He is quick and very bright.

The Legal 500 UK Bar 2019

He is able to move quickly through large volumes of information and identify the pertinent issues.

The Legal 500 UK Bar 2017

'An absolutely outstanding litigator’ with ‘impressive expertise in dry shipping disputes’.

Who's Who Legal 2018

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