Essex Court Chambers

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Richard Siberry QCRichard Siberry QC

Born: 1950
Call: 1974 (Middle Temple (Bencher))
Silk: 1989
Deputy High Court Judge Commercial Court and Admiralty Court 2002

Contact

Essex Court Chambers
24 Lincoln's Inn Fields, London WC2A 3EG
Tel: 020 7813 8000 Fax: 020 7813 8080

rsiberry@essexcourt.net
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About

Richard Siberry has a broad based practice in commercial litigation in line with Chambers' profile. In particular: shipping and carriage of goods, international trade and finance, insurance and reinsurance, banking (letters of credit, swaps, derivatives) and financial services, commodities, oil and gas and other contractual disputes, international and domestic arbitration, Brussels Convention and other jurisdictional disputes. He has appeared regularly as advocate in the Commercial and other Courts including the House of Lords and Privy Council and has considerable experience of heavy commercial litigation, having been involved in a number of cases of eight weeks or more duration. He has an extensive international arbitration practice, involving shipping, oil and gas, insurance and reinsurance, commodity and other arbitrations before a variety of tribunals such as the International Chamber of Commerce, the London Maritime Arbitrators Association, the London Court of International Arbitration, and an arbitration panel in Beijing. He has chaired a Lloyd's Disciplinary Tribunal in a lengthy case and has sat as arbitrator, both as sole arbitrator and as a member of a tribunal of three, in ICC, LCIA, LMAA and other arbitrations. He has given papers on Shipping Law and Insurance and Reinsurance Law topics and on the Brussels and Lugano Conventions.

Education

  • BA, LLB, MA, Pembroke College, Cambridge

Languages

French (working knowledge)

 

Areas of practice

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