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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

Patrick Dunn-Walsh

Patrick Dunn-Walsh

Call: 2012

Languages: Spanish (proficient)

Patrick has a broad commercial practice in line with Chambers’ profile, with a particular focus on civil fraud/asset recovery, international trade, insurance, company/insolvency and shipping disputes. Patrick also has a particular interest in and experience of cases raising issues of private international law, and has published in this field: [2021] LMCLQ 27, and Ch 10 The Modern Law of Marine Insurance, Volume 5 (co-author).  His advocacy was recently described by Henshaw J as “clear and cogent…, both in writing and at the oral hearing”, and the directories comment that his “advocacy skills are very impressive. He is quick on his feet, and presents his arguments in a clear and concise manner. He will certainly be a force to be reckoned with in the years to come.

He has substantial experience of complex litigation in the High Court and Court of Appeal, and of international arbitration under LCIA, ICC, UNCITRAL, and LMAA Rules, both as sole counsel and as part of a team.

Patrick is currently instructed, as junior to Stephen Atherton KC and Sarah Tresman, for two of the Fund Parties in two related claims brought in the Cayman Islands arising out of the well-publicised demise of the Abraaj Group, and the actions of its former CEO, Arif Naqvi.  The first is a transaction avoidance claim brought by the liquidators of one of the group companies, the second a fraud and unjust enrichment claim brought by businessman Abdulhameed Jafar in respect of US$300m worth of loans made to two companies within the Group prior to their liquidation.

As sole counsel, he recently appeared (against a silk) for the appellants in an appeal under s.69 of the Arbitration Act 1996 (Fastfreight v Bulk Trident [2023] EWHC 105 (Comm)). He also has extensive trial experience; he recently acted for the successful defendant in a 4-day High Court trial involving multiple factual and expert witnesses (Arnold v Halcyon Yachts [2022] EWHC 2858 (Admlty)), and for the successful claimant in a 3-day High Court trial concerning a claim for rectification of a company’s share register (Re Iktomi Events Limited [2023] EWHC 2538 (Ch)). In the latter case, he established through cross-examination that the Second Defendant, a partner in a reputable law firm, was an unreliable witness whose evidence should not be accepted.

Patrick read law at the University of Oxford, graduating with a first class degree and ranked first in the university in contract law. He also studied for the BCL, taking papers in restitution of unjust enrichment, conflict of laws, commercial remedies and corporate insolvency.

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Patrick's advocacy skills are very impressive. He is quick on his feet, and presents his arguments in a clear and concise manner. He will certainly be a force to be reckoned with in the years to come.

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