Anthony Connerty
| Address | 6 Pump Court, Temple London EC4Y 7AR, U.K |
| Phone | (+44) (0) 1424 204779 |
| Fax | |
| anthonyconnerty@idrgroup.org | |
| Website | www.idrgroup.org |
| Nationality | British |
| Education | – M.A. International and Comparative Business Law (London University) [international banking, insurance, intellectual property and trade law] – Post-graduate Diploma in International Commercial Arbitration: Queen Mary and Westfield College, London University: [Course organisers Martin Hunter and Julian Lew] – Post-graduate Certificate of Credit in International Energy Law (London University) – Chartered Arbitrator and Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators – Accredited Mediator with the Centre for Dispute Resolution, London (CEDR) [1997] |
| Bar Admission | Called to the Bar of England and Wales by the Honourable Society of the Inner Temple, June 1974. |
| Work Experience | Anthony Connerty is a Barrister, Chartered Arbitrator and Certified and Accredited Mediator in practice in the Chambers of
Stephen Hockman QC at 6 Pump Court, Temple, London EC4. He specialises in the field of dispute resolution as Counsel, Arbitrator and Mediator. He has acted as Counsel in most English courts and in courts of foreign jurisdiction. As an ADR lawyer he has acted as Counsel, Arbitrator and Mediator in international arbitrations and mediations in countries around the world under the Rules of many of the major international arbitration and mediation institutions. Experience as advocate, arbitrator [and mediator] in complex international multi-million U.S. dollar disputes in areas including commercial disputes, oil and gas, metals, cotton, banking and Art Law. Has acted in international arbitrations [and mediations] in Beijing,Cairo, Lagos, London, New York, Singapore, Stockholm and Washington under the Rules of various institutions including the International Chamber of Commerce; London Court of International Arbitration; ICDR (the international section of the American Arbitration Association); Arbitration Institute of the Stockholm Chamber of Commerce; London Metal Exchange (LME); International Cotton Association (ICA); Regional Centre for International Commercial Arbitration – Lagos; Chartered Institute of Arbitrators. Recent cases in which he has acted as counsel [and mediator]; and as party- appointed arbitrator, sole arbitrator and as chairman of arbitral tribunals include: appointment to AAA/ICDR Tribunal in Washington D.C. in dispute involving armaments and weapons systems; sole mediator in ad hoc case involving North Sea sub-sea oil drilling contracts; co -counsel in international cotton arbitrations under the Rules of the International Cotton Association: Turkish and U.S. parties; appointment to AAA/ICDR Tribunal in New York in international metals dispute; sole arbitrator in LCIA arbitration in Chinese joint venture dispute involving manufacture of aircraft equipment (governing law the laws of the People’s Republic of China);-presiding arbitrator in dispute administered by the Regional Centre for International Commercial Arbitration – Lagos: Nigerian and Canadian parties in dispute relating to installation of Web-Based system for a major Bank (governing law the laws of the Federal Republic of Nigeria); advising Chinese lawyers on international metals “scam”; sole arbitrator in international metals dispute. UK and Indian parties. Rules of the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators; appointed Chairman of CIETAC Arbitration Tribunal. Seat of arbitration Shanghai. Chinese and German parties; party – appointed arbitrator in international dispute under the Rules of the Abu Dhabi Commercial Conciliation and Arbitration Center. MIDDLE EAST AND AFRICA Anthony has been involved in the Middle East and Africa for over 15 years. As Arbitrator and Counsel he has acted in international arbitrations involving Turkish, Nigerian and Libyan parties. At various times he has been a member of arbitral and mediation panels in Abu Dhabi, Dubai, Egypt, Iran, Kuala Lumpur and Nigeria. He has spoken at conferences on international dispute resolution in Abu Dhabi, Ankara, Cairo, Istanbul, Lagos and Saudi Arabia. His Paper “Strengthening Relations with the Arab World through Dispute Resolution” was published in The Permanent Court of Arbitration / Peace Palace Papers: Papers emanating from the Fourth PCA International Law Seminar at The Hague. Kluwer ISBN 90-411-1972-8. |
| Present Position | – Barrister in practice in Chambers in London. – Head of the IDR Group |
| Past positions | |
| Publications | – Author of the Commonwealth Secretariat’s Manual of International Dispute Resolution. – Published by the Commonwealth Secretariat, Marlborough House, Pall Mall, London SWIY 5HX. Foreword by Sandra Day 0′ Connor, Associate Justice of the United States Supreme Court. – Articles on international commercial dispute resolution have been published in various journals around the world. |
| Languages | English |