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Obtaining Evidence In England In Support of Foreign Proceedings

17 Dec 2024

Location: 12:00-1:00pm UK Time (Zoom)
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Obtaining Evidence In England In Support of Foreign Proceedings

Highlights

Frederico Singarajah will moderate a panel discussion looking at a range of different options available to those seeking to use powers and procedures in England and Wales to obtain evidence in support of foreign proceedings. By reference to their own experiences of using these powers, the panel will identify the pros and cons of the various options available and will offer insights as to how to obtain the best and most probative evidence for the benefit of those foreign proceedings.

The discussion will focus on:

• Letters of Request under the Hague Convention on the Taking of Evidence Abroad in Civil or Commercial Matters 1970 and CPR Part 34;
• Norwich Pharmacal and Bankers Trust applications;
• Powers under the Insolvency Act 1986.

Frederico Singarajah
Barrister
Gatehouse Chambers

Frederico has developed a successful practice in international dispute resolution that encompasses commercial litigation and international arbitration. He is a specialist in international trade and investment disputes. He practiced law as a solicitor and in-house lawyer before being called to the bar and that experience leads him to undertake highly complex, high value and high-profile cases.


Frederico Singarajah
Frederico Singarajah Barrister
Gatehouse Chambers
Phillip Patterson
Barrister
Gatehouse Chambers

Phillip Patterson
Phillip Patterson Barrister
Gatehouse Chambers
Lucinda Orr
Partner
Enyo Law

Lucinda has a broad commercial disputes practice with substantial experience of complex, high-value cross-border litigation and long trials. She has acted for many high net worth individuals and large institutions, in some of the most consequential trials to come before the English Courts in recent years. Lucinda is recognised by Legal 500 as a “Next Generation Partner” in Commercial Litigation: Premium, by Chambers and Partners as “Up and Coming” in Fraud: Civil, and is recognised by Who’s Who Legal as a Leading Global Fraud and Asset Recovery Lawyer. She is described in the legal directories as “an outstanding professional”; “a class act” and “smart and hugely efficient”.

Lucinda has been at the cutting edge of innovations for trial settings over the last decade – having managed the first trial with an integrated electronic trial bundle system in 2011, and also the first fully remote 12-week trial with simultaneous interpretation in 2020. Lucinda has particular expertise in disclosure-heavy cases in foreign languages and likes developing and delivering technical solutions and harnessing technology to ease the cost burden for her clients.

Lucinda has also developed an interest and specialisation in Letters of Request, principally from the US Courts. She regularly acts as the Privy Council Agent in appeals from offshore jurisdictions to the Judicial Committee of the Privy Council. Lucinda also has experience of mediation, as well as a range of other dispute resolution mechanisms, and familiarity with regulatory investigations. Through a number of pro bono matters in which she has acted, she also has judicial review experience.

Lucinda graduated from Oxford University, following undergraduate and Masters of Studies degrees, and undertook her pupillage at Quadrant Chambers. Since qualification, she has practised at Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom (UK) and Quinn Emanuel Urquhart & Sullivan UK LLP. She joined Enyo Law in 2014.

Lucinda holds a number of leadership roles within the legal profession, and sits on the Management Committee of the Bar Council of England and Wales, and previously sat on the Management Committee on her Inn of Court, where she is a Bencher. Lucinda has also been appointed by the Lord Chancellor as an Examiner of the Court pursuant to CPR 34.15, and by the Culture Secretary to the Treasure Valuation Committee, to advise on the fair market value of declared Treasure finds from England, Wales and Northern Ireland.

As a practising barrister, Lucinda has full rights of audience in all higher courts in England and Wales and has the right to conduct litigation.


Lucinda Orr
Lucinda Orr Partner
Enyo Law
Stephanie Stocker
Partner
White & Case

Stephanie Stocker is a partner in the Dispute Resolution group in London, whose practice focuses on complex multi-jurisdictional disputes, often in the oil & gas sector.

Stephanie has a breadth of experience before both the English courts and arbitral tribunals acting under the LCIA, ICC and ICSID Rules and in ad-hoc arbitration under the UNCITRAL Rules. 

Stephanie has advised clients operating in the extractives industry on a range of issues and disputes including providing advice on litigation strategy to financial institutions involved in the liquidation of an operating company holding interests in a Nigerian oil field, acting for States in investment treaty disputes relating to mining assets, and acting for shareholders in disputes relating to oil & gas joint ventures.


Stephanie Stocker
Stephanie Stocker Partner
White & Case

Agenda

11:55am
Audience Log On
12:00pm
Chair's Opening Remarks
Speakers:
Frederico Singarajah - Barrister - Gatehouse Chambers
12:05pm
Obtaining Evidence In England In Support Of Foreign Proceedings
Speakers:
Frederico Singarajah - Barrister - Gatehouse Chambers
Phillip Patterson - Barrister - Gatehouse Chambers
Lucinda Orr - Partner - Enyo Law
Stephanie Stocker - Partner - White & Case
12:45pm
Panel Q&A
1:00pm
Chair's Closing Remarks
Speakers:
Frederico Singarajah - Barrister - Gatehouse Chambers

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