Sir Peter Cresswell

Email: pcresswell@3vb-arbitrators.com

• 1991 - 2007 Judge of the Commercial and Admiralty Courts.

• 1991 - 2007 Judge of the High Court of Justice, Queen's Bench Division.

• 1993 - 1996 Judge in charge of the management of the Lloyd's Litigation.

• 1993 - 1994 Judge in charge of the Commercial Court.

• 1990 Chairman of the General Council of the Bar of England and Wales.

• 1983 - 1990 Queen's Counsel.

• 1986 - 1990 Recorder.

• 1966 Called to the Bar, Gray's Inn.

• 1962 - 1965 Queens' College Cambridge MA, LLM.

Experience in the Commercial Court

17 years experience in dealing with claims arising out business, commerce and trade including in particular claims relating to: -

• insurance and re-insurance;

• banking and financial services;

• shipping and the construction of ships, oil rigs etc;

• the exploitation of oil and gas reserves and other natural resources;

• the carriage of goods by land, sea, air or pipeline;

• the export and import of goods;

• arbitration;

• international disputes between states;

• business contracts and documents;

• the operation of markets and exchanges;

• the purchase and sale of commodities;

• major construction projects/domestic and international;

• business agency;

• disputes concerning information technology.

Memberships

• Member of the Chartered Institure of Arbitrators.

• The London Court of International Arbitration.

• International Chamber of Commerce.

• Chairman of Commercial Court Working Party on Electronic Disclosure - Report dated 6 October 2004.

• Chairman of various committees concerned with Information Technology for the Judiciary for about 10 years.

• Civil Justice Counsel 1999 - 2003.

Arbitration

• The Casco 28.2.05 (whether claims in an arbitration under a charterparty were time barred).

• Metal Distributors (UK) Ltd v ZCCM Investment Holdings Plc (the extent of the jurisdiction of arbitrators and the legal principles to be applied in determining whether a particular dispute falls within the jurisdiction of an arbitral tribunal).
  Flight Training International v International Fire Training Equipment Ltd [2004] All ER (D) 123 (whether an agreement contained an enforceable agreement to arbitrate).

• American International Specialty Lines Insurance Company v Abbott Laboratories 28.11.02 (whether wording such as "the insurance ... shall follow all the terms and conditions of policy ..." sufficient to incorporate an arbitration clause in policy).

• Petroships PTE Ltd of Singapore v Petec Trading and Investment Corporation of Vietnam and others (the scope and ambit of sections 68 and 70 (4) of the Arbitration Act 1996).

• International Disputes between states (and states and their people) and claims against states.

• The litigation between Kuwait and Iraq in relation to aircraft and spares seized in the first Gulf war (Kuwait Airways Corp v Iraqi Airways Co [2004] All ER (D) 215).

• The Chagos Islanders (R (on the application of Bancoult) v Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs [2006] 3 LRC 699 and [2007] All ER (D) 399).

• Kensington International Ltd v Republic of Congo 26.5.06 and [2007] EWCA Civ 1128 (execution of English judgments - attachment of debts alleged to be owed by state - injunction).

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