London Bar
Insurance and reinsurance
HALL OF FAME4Michael Davey KC – Quadrant Chambers ‘Top tier for maritime insurance.’
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Michael Davey KC
Quadrant Chambers, London
- Phone020 7583 4444
- Email[email protected]
Position
Barrister specialising in commercial and shipping: charterparties and bills of lading; international sale of goods; insurance; salvage and collisions; shipbuilding; fisheries.
Significant recent cases: MSC v Cottonex Anstalt [2016] EWCA Civ 789 (Court of Appeal decision on repudiation and liquidated damages); Loose v Lynn Shellfish Ltd [2016] 2 W.L.R. 1126 (Supreme Court decision on the boundary of private fisheries); Fish & Fish Ltd v Sea Shepherd [2015] A.C. 1229 (Supreme Court decision on joint liability in tort for environmental protest); The “Ocean Victory” [2015] 1 Lloyd's Rep. 381 (Court of Appeal decision on unsafe ports and demise charters, appeal in the Supreme Court in November 2016).
Career
Called 1990; Silk 2014.
Memberships
COMBAR; LCLCBA.
Education
King’s College, London (1988 LLB); St Edmund Hall, Oxford (1990 BCL)
Mentions
London Bar
Shipping
HALL OF FAME4Michael Davey KC –Quadrant Chambers 'He will have assembled the puzzle and told you how the picture looks in the time it takes everyone else involved to find the four corners.'
Asia Pacific: The English Bar
Shipping and commodities
HALL OF FAME2Michael Davey KC–Quadrant Chambers 'An assured silk. Clients like him.'