London Bar
Commercial litigation
Leading junior5Peter Webster – Essex Court Chambers 'Peter is pragmatic, intelligent and responsive. Inevitably a silk of the future.'
Essex Court Chambers
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Peter Webster
Essex Court Chambers, London
- Phone020 7813 8000
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Position
Undertakes a broad range of commercial work, as both sole counsel and junior counsel, with particular interests in the following fields: administrative and public law; arbitration; banking and financial services; commercial fraud; commercial litigation; employment law/professional discipline; human rights; international arbitration; public international law; shipping law.
Career
Trainee solicitor Brodies LLP 2008-10; judicial assistant to Lord Hope and Lord Walker, UK Supreme Court 2010-11; associate Baker Botts (UK) LLP 2011-12; called to the Bar 2012, Lincoln’s Inn.
Languages
French (good), German (conversational).
Memberships
COMBAR; Employment Lawyers’ Association.
Education
Waid Academy, Anstruther; University of Edinburgh (2000-04 LLB (Hons), First Class; 2004-08 PhD).
Mentions
London Bar
Insurance and reinsurance
Leading junior4Peter Webster – Essex Court Chambers ‘Very hard working and intelligent. Also very reliable and calm under pressure.’
London Bar
International arbitration: counsel
Leading junior2Peter Webster –Essex Court Chambers 'Very hard working and intelligent. Also, very reliable and calm under pressure.'
London Bar
Public international law
Leading junior3Peter Webster – Essex Court Chambers ‘Resourceful, bright, hard-working.’