Kirsty Brimelow KC has been elected as the Vice Chair of the UK Bar Council for 2025. The criminal and international human rights practitioner will join
After the Brexit referendum in 2016, European jurisdictions began to create their own specialist commercial courts, given the potential impact of leaving the EU on the UK’s own courts. Commentators have asked whether the creation of such courts will change the landscape of commercial disputes and arbitration, for example by attracting the litigation cases that traditionally go to the English courts and, in particular, the London Commercial Court.