London Bar
Commodities
HALL OF FAME2Peter MacDonald Eggers KC – 7 King’s Bench Walk ‘Peter is a supberb advocate, authoritative and with real gravitas, and he has a first-class brain.’
Peter MacDonald Eggers
- Phone020 7910 8300
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Position
Peter MacDonald Eggers KC is a “very user-friendly and commercial barrister” who specialises in all aspects of commercial law, with a particular focus on insurance and reinsurance , shipping and transport, energy, commodities and international trade, financial services, professional negligence, and international investment projects. Peter appears before the Commercial Court, the Court of Appeal and the Supreme Court and in commercial and international arbitrations. Peter has also appeared before Courts in other jurisdictions. Peter accepts appointments to act as an arbitrator. Peter sat as a Deputy High Court Judge from 2017 to 2023 and is the immediate Past Chair of BILA. He teaches at UCL, KCL and QMUL and is the author, co-author or editor of Good Faith and Insurance Contracts, Deceit: The Lie of the Law, The Vitiation of Contractual Consent, Carver on Charterparties and Chitty on Contracts.
Education
Sydney Grammar School; University of Sydney (1986 LLB); Cambridge (1988 LLM).