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| Practice Areas | Complex Civil Litigation; International Commercial Arbitration; Private International Law; Insurance; Reinsurance; Insolvency | | | Education | University of London (LL.B., 1982); Inns of Court School of Law (1983); Cambridge University, Queens' College (LL.M., 1984); Chartered Institute of Arbitrators, Special Fellowship Course (F.C.I. Arb., 1995) | | | Admitted | 1983, England and Wales as Barrister; 1991, Bermuda as Barrister and Attorney | |
| Memberships | Bermuda and International Bar Associations; Honourable Society of Gray's Inn; ARIAS (US and UK); COMBAR; International Association of Defense Counsel; London Court of International Arbitration. | | | Languages | Polish and Russian | | | Biography | Bermuda Correspondent, "International Journal of Insurance Law," (the AIDA Journal). Caribbean and Bermuda Correspondent (jointly with Kehinde A.L. George), "Insolvency Lawyer," UK Insolvency Lawyer's Association. Co-Author: with P.T. O'Neill, The Law of Reinsurance in England and Bermuda, Sweet and Maxwell, First Ed., 1998 (Winner of the British Insurance Law Association Book Prize, 1998), First Supplement, January 2000. Chapter Author: "International Recognition," Chapter 26 of Totty and Jordan on Insolvency, Longman Professional, 1986 and Chapter H.9 of Totty and Moss on Insolvency, Sweet and Maxwell. Editor: "Insurance Companies," Chapter H.16 of Totty and Moss on Insolvency; "The Road to Byzantium: An Examination of the Impact of the 1968 Brussels Convention upon English Law and the Implications of the 1989 Lugano Convention," Creating a European Economic Space: Legal Aspects of EC-EFTA Relations, Irish Centre for European Law, Dublin, 1989; "Enforcement of Judgments in the United Kingdom," Enforcement of Foreign Judgments Worldwide, ed. Charles Platto, Graham & Trottman/IBA, London, 1988; "International Insurance and Reinsurance Insolvencies: Legal Problems and Practical Solutions," Colloquium on Cross-Border Insolvency, UK National Committee for Comparative Law/British Institute of International and Comparative Law, 1990; "English Civil Procedure," Pre-Trial and Hearing Procedures Worldwide, ed. Charles Platto, Graham & Trottman/IBA, London, 1990. Article Author: "Co-operation Between National Courts in International Insolvencies: Recent United Kingdom Legislation," 35 International and Comparative Law Quarterly, 1986; "The UNCITRAL Model Law and the Arbitration of Reinsurance Disputes in Bermuda," International Journal of Insurance Law, 1997; "Bermuda is the Ideal Venue for Companies To Hold Arbitrations," International Arbitration: A Guide for Foreign Corporations, International Commercial Litigation, Supplement, 1998; "The Duty of Utmost Good Faith in Insurance Law: Where is it in the 21st Century?" Vol 69, January 2002. Fellow, Chartered Institute of Arbitrators (Committee Member, Bermuda Branch).(Senior Counsel and Head of Litigation) | | | Reported Cases | Skandia International Insurance Co. Ltd. v. Al Amana Insurance & Reinsurance Co. Ltd. (1995) 4 Re L.R. 63; Berliner Bank AG v. Karageorgis (1997/1998) O.F.L.R. 145; In re petition of Hopewell (1999) 238 BR 25. | | | ISLN | 902649376 | |
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