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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 Head of Business Development for Asia Pacific, Katie-Beth Jones, and for all other queries please contact Lynn Quek. Out of office hours calls will automatically be diverted to our practice management 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 Head of Business Development for Asia Pacific, Katie-Beth Jones, and for all other queries please contact Lynn Quek. Out of office hours calls will automatically be diverted to our practice management 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

Tom Corby

Tom Corby

Call: 2011

Languages: Spanish (proficient)

Tom has a broad commercial practice, with a particular focus on international arbitration, shipping, commodities and sport. He is ranked as a leading junior in a number of practice areas by Chambers and Partners (UK Bar) and The Legal 500 (UK Bar). He has been described as a real star (The Legal 500 2023) who is brilliant on paper and on his feet (Chambers and Partners 2023).

His strengths include skillful cross-examination (Chambers and Partners 2023), an ability to cut through complex issues (The Legal 500 2023) and providing really sharp, accurate advice (Chambers and Partners 2023).  He is said to be above all a pleasure to work with (The Legal 500 2022) and to provide an excellent service to his instructing solicitors (The Legal 500 2022).

Tom has extensive experience of arbitrations seated in England and elsewhere under a variety of rules (LCIA, ICC, LMAA, SCMA) both as sole counsel and led.  He also regularly appears as sole counsel and led in the High Court and Court of Appeal. He has significant and recent experience of applications for anti-suit injunctions, worldwide freezing injunctions and applications under the Arbitration Act 1996 (including claims under sections 68 and 69).

Tom worked as a researcher on the 4th edition of Voyage Charters and has joined the editorial team for the 6th edition.

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Thomas is incredibly bright, calm and measured, with sharp attention to detail and an ability to cut through complex issues.

The Legal 500 UK Bar 2024

He is very user-friendly, incredibly popular with clients, and works really well in a team.

Chambers UK Bar 2024

Hard working, reliable, and a pleasure to work with.

The Legal 500 UK Bar 2024

Tom is very hard-working, very clever and very reliable.

Chambers UK Bar 2024

Tom is a really strong junior.

Chambers UK Bar 2024

Super bright, inspires confidence, excellent on paper. A real star.

The Legal 500 UK Bar 2023

He is decisive, super-bright, user-friendly and inspires confidence.

The Legal 500 UK Bar 2023

Thomas's strengths include skilful cross-examinations.

Chambers UK Bar 2023

He is extremely hard-working, very clever and a real pleasure work with.

Chambers UK Bar 2023

Thomas is brilliant on paper and on his feet. He is very hands-on and user-friendly.

Chambers UK Bar 2023

Incredibly hard-working, spectacularly clever, always polite whatever the provocation, and above all a pleasure to work with.

The Legal 500 UK Bar 2022

Thomas is brilliant on paper and on his feet. He is very hands-on and user-friendly.

Chambers UK Bar 2022

Extremely diligent, thorough, knowledgeable and strategic, he provides an excellent service to his instructing solicitors.

The Legal 500 UK Bar 2022

He is extremely hard-working, very clever and a real pleasure work with.

Chambers UK Bar 2022

He is hard-working, approachable and experienced. He copes with big cases well.

Chambers UK Bar 2021

Absolutely excellent and very user-friendly; nothing is too much trouble.

The Legal 500 UK Bar 2021

He is commercial, prompt and user-friendly. He adds value and takes initiative.

Chambers UK Bar 2021

A rising star who is particularly recommended for shipping and commodities matters.

The Legal 500 UK Bar 2021

He is always fully prepared, highly persuasive and sensitive to the nuances of advocacy before tribunals and courts.

The Legal 500 UK Bar 2020

His work product is first class. His turnaround time, attitude and client management also impress.

Chambers UK Bar 2020

A rising star who will undoubtedly take silk, he is clever, reassuring and user-friendly with a sharp legal mind.

The Legal 500 UK Bar 2020

He's exactly what you want from counsel – good on the black letter law as well as commercially minded." "He's extremely thorough, well prepared and diligent.

Chambers UK Bar 2020

He is approachable, reliable and brilliant on paper.

The Legal 500 UK Bar 2018

Excellent to work with, he has a very strong intellect, is extremely hardworking and very responsive.

The Legal 500 UK Bar 2018

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