International Women’s Day has inspired us to actively reach out to school aged young women to encourage them to think about becoming a barrister at the Commercial Bar. Michelle Menashy (Senior Junior, Call 2003), and Daniele Thripp (Team Leader of one of One Essex Court’s Clerking Teams) visited Highbury Fields School yesterday to speak to Year 10 students. This feeds into a programme of encouraging more women to consider a career at the Bar and follows supportive Careers Clinics and Pupillage Workshops, all part of our Women at the Commercial Bar Programme. Full details can be found here.
Most recently One Essex Court has championed women barristers by hosting a Female Advocates Breakfast in February 2024, an event which provides an excellent forum for women advocates at all seniorities to meet in an informal setting to share experience and build and nurture networks.
We hope that some of these recent cases listed involving One Essex Court women KCs and Juniors might also inspire:
- The ranking of statutory interest on subordinated debt
- Commercial Court considers meaning of an obligation to "act reasonably"
- CAT sets out its approach to the Trucks Second Wave Proceedings
- ENRC v Dechert, Mr Gerrard, and the SFO (the "Phase 1A Judgment")
- Commercial Court grants summary judgment to banks in latest Italian swaps claims
- High Court gives high-octane judgment comprehensively rejecting bad faith allegations made against Aston Martin
- Court of Appeal overturns high-profile Italian swaps judgment
- Successful application for security for costs under CPR 25.13(2)(c) in the High Court
- High Court calls into question the rule in Sharp v Blank
- Supreme Court judgment in the SKAT litigation
- FCA's unreasonable conduct results in rare award of costs in Upper Tribunal
- Commercial Court rejects bid for interim relief by entity said to be owned or controlled by sanctioned persons