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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

08/01/2024

Revealed: The Lawyer’s top 20 cases of 2024

We are proud to see several members of Twenty Essex featured in The Lawyer’s ‘Top 20 cases’ for 2024.

The $750 million case of Czech Republic v Diag Human and Josef Stava has been ‘decades in the making’. Philip Riches KC, Guglielmo Verdirame KC, Sam Goodman and Jonathan Ketcheson are acting for the defendants; instructed by Mishcon de Reya.

The answer to the question of who invented Bitcoin in 2008 is expected to come to light in the trial of Crypto Open Patent Alliance v Dr Craig Steven Wright next month. Richard Greenberg is acting for the claimant/defendant, Dr Wright; instructed by Shoosmiths.

The largest set of claims in this list centres on multiple insurance disputes over foreign aircraft stuck in Russia. Charles Kimmins KC and Susannah Jones will be defending Liberty Mutual Insurance Europe; instructed by Kennedys Singapore and Shoosmiths. Christopher Hancock KC will be defending HAR insurers (Global Aerospace Underwriting); instructed by Weightmans.

The full feature: top 20 cases

Update: 5 February 2024

Duncan Matthews KC features in The Lawyer‘s ‘Top 10 appeals’ for 2024.

Privinvest Shipbuilding SAL (Holding) and others v Filipe Nyusi is a very high-profile appeal. Privinvest’s appeal concerns the question of whether President Filipe Nyusi of Mozambique is entitled to assert sovereign immunity to challenge the Court’s jurisdiction, which the Commercial Court believed he was. The Court of Appeal will also consider an appeal on whether President Nyusi was validly served with proceedings in 2021 and so was out of time to contest jurisdiction in 2023.

Duncan acts for the appellant/applicant Privinvest Shipbuilding SAL, instructed by Tom Snelling at Signature Litigation.

The full feature: top 10 appeals