Quadrant Chambers

Commercial barrister specialising in shipping, commodities, international sale of goods, insurance, energy and aviation matters. Mark regularly acts in litigation and arbitration proceedings, including trials, appellate work and obtaining injunctive relief. Recent notable cases include Deleclass Shipping v. Ingosstrakh Insurance (The Siderfly) [2018] EWHC 1149 (Comm) and [2018] EWHC 1135 (Comm), The Bulk Indonesia [2017] 2 Lloyd's Rep. 385, and the Supreme Court case of Bunge SA v. Nidera BV [2015] 3 All E.R. 1082.

Called 2011; Gray’s Inn. Publications of note: ‘Security for Costs in Disputed Insurance Claims’ (2018) Insurance Day (5 July 2018); ‘The Nature of the Owner’s Charterparty “Lien” upon Sub-Hires and Sub-Freights’ (2013) 9(4) Shipping & Transport lnt’l 18-21; ‘Contractual Remoteness, “Scope of Duty” and Intention’ [2012] LMCLQ 97-121; ‘The Recognition in England and Wales of United States Judgments in Class Actions’ (2011) 52 Harv. lnt’l L.J. 435-501; ‘The Case of “Losses in Any Event”: a Question of Duty, Cause or Damages?’ (2010) 30 Legal Studies 558-585; ‘The Scope and Rationale of the Principle that the Defendant “Takes his Victim as he Finds him”’ (2009) 17 Tort L Rev 140-157; ‘“I’m banking on you”- Rethinking Reliance’ [2008] LMCLQ 258-264.

COMBAR; TECBAR.

M.A. (Oxon.), B.C.L. (Oxon.), LL.M. (Harvard), BPTC (BPP Law School).

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