Stuart Isaacs QC

 

Year of birth:

1952

Contact details:

3-4 South Square, Gray’s Inn, London WC1R 5HP. 

Telephone +44 (0)20 7696 9900.  Fax +44 (0)20 7696 9911.  LDE 338 (Chancery Lane).
Email clerks@southsquare.com. Web www.southsquare.com; www.stuartisaacsqc.com

Call and Pupillage:

Called to the Bar by Lincoln’s Inn 17 July 1975. Pupillage in commercial chambers 1976-1977. Admitted ad eundem to Gray’s Inn January 1978. Elected a Bencher of Lincoln’s Inn in November 1999.

 

Practice and Professional Career:

Member of COMBAR and the Chancery Bar Association. Formerly a member of the Bar Council International Relations Committee and the British Council Law Advisory Committee.

Began practice in January 1978. Practises in the fields of commercial law, international arbitration, European law and commercial judicial review. Extensive experience of arbitration, including ICSID disputes, both as counsel and as an arbitrator. LCIA and ICC Arbitrator. Fellow of the Australian Centre for International Commercial Arbitration (ACICA). Member of the International Panel of the Singapore International Arbitration Centre. Member of the arbitrators’ panel of the Mauritius International Chamber of Commerce. Singled out in Chambers UK 2007 for his “legal and technical nous”.

 

In the commercial law field, he has experience of all types of banking and financial disputes, international trade, insurance, civil fraud and professional negligence.

In the field of international arbitration, he deals with all types of commercial disputes mainly with an international element and represents parties in arbitration proceedings in England, Asia and elsewhere. He acts as arbitrator in all kinds of international arbitrations under ICC, LCIA, UNCITRAL rules and ad hoc. In addition, he has experience in the mediation of commercial disputes.

In the European law field, he has appeared in over 20 cases in the European Court of Justice and CFI. He has also appeared in many cases in the domestic courts involving European law issues. Has a strong domestic and EU competition law practice.

 

In April 1991 appointed Queen’s Counsel. In May 1997 appointed Recorder of the Crown Court. In September 2004 appointed Deputy High Court Judge in the Queen’s Bench and Chancery Divisions.

 

Worked before coming to the Bar in law firms in Brussels and Paris. Admitted to the New York State Bar in 1985.

 

Described in Chambers UK 2006 as having a practice “of international standing”.

Singled out in Chambers UK 2005 amongst other things for his “tactical head” and in previous editions as a “strong litigator” and “superb tactician” who “gets results that others only dream of”.

 

Education:

The Haberdashers' Aske's School, Elstree, Herts

Downing College, Cambridge (1971-1974) Double First Class Honours, Law

Université Libre de Bruxelles, Belgium (1975-1976) Grande Distinction, European Law

Awards & scholarships:

Downing College Scholar

Cambridge University Rebecca Flower Scholar

Wiener-Anspach Foundation Scholar 1975-1976

Leverhulme Trust European Studentship 1975-1976

Lincoln's Inn Hardwicke Scholar and Wigglesworth Scholar

Languages:                                                                                                                                                      

Fluent in French and good knowledge of German and Spanish