7 King's Bench Walk

Joe is a commercial barrister specialising in insurance, shipping, commodities and general commercial disputes.

Recent instructions in the Commercial Court include a $100 million dispute concerning late payment under various oil contracts and a complex reinsurance dispute. Other work includes a high-value superyacht arbitration, s.67 proceedings in respect of a commodities arbitration, a 3-day time charter dispute in LMAA arbitration and several charterparty and commodities disputes in which Joe acts as sole counsel.

Joe worked as an employed barrister in the international arbitration group of a leading US law firm prior to joining chambers and has acted on high value arbitrations under ad hoc, LCIA, ICC and UNCITRAL Rules. He also spent a year as a judicial assistant in the Court of Appeal.