Peter Webster
Barrister
Essex Court Chambers
Peter is an experienced lawyer with a broad practice in both English and international law. He has particular expertise in commercial disputes before the English courts or arbitral tribunals, in appellate work, and in international law, where his experience to date has focused on immunities, sanctions and investment law matters. He also has experience of human rights/public law and employment law matters.
Peter acts both in an advisory and a contentious context, and has experience of all stages of the dispute resolution process, from pre-issue to interim relief, trial and enforcement. His commercial case load arises from a range of sectors, including energy, financial services, life sciences, media/art, property and shipping/commodities.
Equally comfortable acting as part of a larger legal team or as sole counsel, examples of Peter’s recent sole advocacy experience include: (i) successfully representing a State in an ICC arbitration regarding a €50m bilateral investment treaty claim (five day hearing on jurisdiction, merits and quantum; January 2018); and (ii) successfully representing 11 claimants in a complex damages action for human trafficking in an application for freezing relief. Recent expertise as junior counsel includes: (i) representing Citibank, instructed by Hogan Lovells, in a significant Financial List claim regarding carbon credit trading; (ii) acting, instructed by Linklaters, in a dispute regarding alleged breach of a shareholders’ deed, including in respect of an urgent application for anti-suit relief.
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