London Bar
Insurance and reinsurance
Leading silk4Michael Davey KC – Quadrant Chambers
Quadrant Chambers
quadrantchambers.comquadrantchambers.comBarristers
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.
Languages
French.
Memberships
COMBAR; LCLCBA.
Education
King’s College, London (1988 LLB); St Edmund Hall, Oxford (1990 BCL)
Mentions
London Bar
Shipping
Leading silk3Michael Davey KC –Quadrant Chambers 'His perception from very early on in a case of what will be crucial in negotiations or ultimately at a hearing, sets him apart when it comes to complex disputes.'
Asia Pacific: The English Bar
Shipping and commodities
Leading silk2Michael Davey KC–Quadrant Chambers 'An assured silk. Clients like him.'