James is a full-time arbitrator in independent practice.ÌýHe is an associate member of Six Pump Court Chambers in London.
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For six years, between 2016 and 2022, James worked part-time for Â鶹´«Ã½AVÌýon the Lexis®PSL Arbitration module and helped to develop and update LMAA, commodities, arbitration statistics, third-party funding, institutional and ad hoc arbitration content. He has also been a contributor to the Â鶹´«Ã½AV® Dispute Resolution Blog and New Law Journal.
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James has more than 30 years’ experience of ad hoc, trade association, institutional and investment arbitrations as a solicitor and avocat in London and Paris, as a former Registrar and Deputy Director General of the London Court of International Arbitration (LCIA), as a case assessor for legal costs insurers and third-party funders, and as an arbitrator. His background as a lawyer is in shipping, commodities, oil and gas, and insurance. His appointments as an arbitrator since 2016 have largely been in these sectors.
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He spent more than 20 years in private practice with Withers, HFW and Stephenson Harwood. At the LCIA from 2008-2012, he oversaw the administration of more than a thousand commercial arbitrations and assisted with updating the institution’s arbitration rules. At Thomas Miller Legal, in 2012-2014, he assessed and managed a wide range of commercial and investment claims on behalf of insurers and funders.
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James takes appointments in ad hoc and institutional arbitrations as sole arbitrator and on three member panels. He is a Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators and an Aspiring Full Member and former Honorary Secretary of the London Maritime Arbitrators Association (LMAA).Ìý
Stella is a Business Analyst working in digital and technology-enabled Transformation Management. Stella writes for Â鶹´«Ã½AV as an independent contributor.Ìý
Kirstie is a member of the LexisPSL family team and a solicitor specialising in all aspects of family law with particular emphasis on financial settlements, pre-nuptial agreements, private law children matters and financial disputes between cohabitants. Kirstie trained at Manches qualifying into their family department in 2003 where she worked for a number of years, particularly on financial settlement proceedings for high net worth clients. In 2006 she joined the family team at Charles Russell and progressed to become a senior associate in the department. Kirstie is a former member of the Young Resolution London Region Committee. She is also a regular contributor to Family Law Journal on wide-ranging areas of family law.
Siobhan is a Senior Associate in the International Arbitration team at Bryan Cave Leighton Paisner. Her practice focuses on commercial and investment treaty arbitration and she has acted on multiple complex cross-border disputes under a range of institutional rules and governing laws, with a particular focus on the LCIA, ICC and ICSID. She has advised clients in various sectors, including property and construction, pharmaceuticals, space technology, M&A, private equity and financial services and regularly advises clients from a range of jurisdictions. She also sits as tribunal secretary and has experience of commercial litigation in the High Court in London.
In 2019 she completed a three-month secondment to the LCIA Secretariat’s casework team as counsel. ÌýShe recently qualified as a solicitor advocate in the English courts.
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