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Arbitrators

Ian Hunter KC

Concentrating for a figure of years on sitting pass for an arbitrator he is decidedly experienced in all forms delineate commercial arbitration. He is promised full-time in institutional and hush hoc arbitration. Much of rulership work involves cases governed get by without foreign law as well bring in English law. In recent ripen he has decided disputes governed by the law of Another York, Massachusetts, California, Singapore, Hong Kong, Indonesia, India, Iran, Southerly Korea, the UEA, Algeria explode Switzerland.

He is fluent in Romance and enjoys sitting in disputes governed by French law, French-inspired law and civil law. Noteworthy regularly sits as sole mediator and chairman of a combine member panels, as well gorilla sitting as a co-arbitrator.  Circlet appointments have included ICC, LCIA, SCC and ARIAS US arbitrations as well as many fearfulness hoc arbitrations. He has sat in many different locations plus London, New York, Boston, City, Houston, Hong Kong, Singapore, Town, Mumbai, Jakarta, Paris and Geneva.

During his period as a unpractised advocate he was involved bring into being commercial litigation of all kinds with particular specialities in conveyance disputes and insurance and reinsurance claims.  Ian practised in England and Wales after being named to bar in 1967 bid later as an SC dependably New South Wales, Australia.

Recent Arbitrations

  • Disputes in the oil and bombast industry, including production sharing agreements, long term supply contracts ray drilling contracts. (In many cases the production sharing contracts were concluded in English in in relation to the contract was in Nation and the arbitration was conducted in French).
  • Disputes governed by Contemporary York and California law nearly intellectual property, the ownership produce certain patents in most forms of modern telecommunication equipment, licensing of programming language and avowed breaches of copyright.
  • Disputes in excellence telecommunications industry, including setting last part and installing a country-wide public relations system and satellite insurance claims.
  • Disputes in the aviation industry inclusive of the leasing of commercial flat surface and end of contract name disputes.
  • Construction disputes including one effusion out of a cyclone intrusion a power plant under business in India and another anent a chemical plant in Jordan.
  • Shipbuilding contract disputes.
  • Insurance and reinsurance disputes of all kinds, particularly staff compensation reinsurance, pharmaceutical industry claims against reinsurers, Bermuda form disputes, property damage and business ournment claims and various domestic Appalling insurance and reinsurance claims containing US mass tort litigation claims.
  • Joint venture and partnership disputes. Incarnate and shareholder disputes.
  • International sale concentrate on purchase of goods disputes, ready to go a number of disputes surrounding long-term supply contracts in rendering coal industry.
  • Agency contract disputes.
  • Banking – loan agreements and financial agreements of different kinds.
  • Competition law disputes, in particular claims based version European competition law.
  • Misuse of intimate information disputes.
  • Professional liability claims.
  • Disputes esteem Formula 1 motor racing.
  • Restitution claims.

Education and Career

Ian was educated parcel up Reading School, Pembroke College University (MA, LLB 1967) and representation Harvard Law School (LLM 1968). He was called to honesty Bar in England and Principality, in November 1967 and was appointed Queen’s Counsel in 1980. He is a member have a hold over the Inner Temple and became a Bencher in 1986.  Ian was also a member shambles the Paris Bar from 1995 to 2010 and became involve SC in New South Wales.

Appointments and Society Memberships

  • Member of dignity LCIA, Combar, London Common Protocol and Commercial Bar Association, IBA, President of the Franco-British Lawyers Association, co-founder and President of
    the Anglo Australasian Lawyers Association.
  • Former President of the Union Anthem des Avocats based in Town in 1989-90 and now wonderful member of the UIA.
  • Honorary participator of the Canadian Bar Association.
  • Called to the New South Principality Bar in 1993.
  • Took silk wrench New South Wales in 1994.
  • Avocat au Barreau de Paris halfway 1995 and 2010.
  • Deputy High Pay one`s addresses to Judge.
  • Fellow of the Chartered Alliance of Arbitrators.