Publications

The barristers at Stone Chambers have published a number of articles on a wide variety of legal topics. As well as publishing articles, members of Stone Chambers have also written, or contributed to, various books. A list of these books and articles is set out below.

 

Steven Gee QC

Books
•    Commercial Injunctions  (5th ed., 2004, 6th ed., forthcoming)


Articles

•    The Remedies carried by a Freezing Injunction (2006) 122 Law Quarterly Review 535.
•    The Autonomy of Arbitrators and Fraud unravels all (2006) 22 Arbitration International 337.
•    The Undertaking in Damages (2006) Lloyd's Maritime and Commercial Law Quarterly 181
•    Transactions in Fraud of Creditors: The Foreign Element [2005] International Corporate Rescue (Issue 1) 29 (with Ravi Aswani)
•    Performance Bonds (2005) Vol 1 Bankers' Law 1 (with Mary Gibbons).
•    The Solicitor's duty to warn that a court might take a different view (2003) Professional Negligence Vol 19 p.362
•    Interpretation of Commercial Contracts (2001) 117 Law Quarterly Review 358
•    Construing Contracts with Mistakes in them [2001] LMCLQ 214
•    Keeping Confidences (1998) Commercial Lawyer 38 (about Chinese Walls)
•    Mareva Injunctions-the Reforms of the Law made by its Soul [1998] International Journal of Insurance Law 133
•    Mareva Injunctions - the Law (1995) Commercial Lawyer 52
•    Mercedes and Mareva (1995) 139 Solicitors Journal 1076
•    Diving In at the Deep End (1995) Law Society Gazette 23 (Damages for breach of contract)

 

John Reeder QC

•    Brice on Maritime Law of Salvage (4th ed., 2003)

•    Halsbury's Laws (5th edition, 2009): volumes on Shipping & Maritime Law

 

Elizabeth Blackburn QC

•    Current Law, Shipping Law Editor (1980-3)
•    The 2003 Protocol to the International Convention on the Establishment of an International Fund for Compensation for Oil Pollution Damage 1992: one bridge over some particularly troubled water, Journal of International Maritime Law (2003) Vol. 9, Issue 6, p. 530

 

Dominic Happé

•    Butterworths Law of Limitations (1 st ed., 2000) Co-author of Chapter on Contract
•    Law and Practice of Commercial Injunctions (forthcoming)

 

Rachel Toney

•    Arrests and Admiralty procedure, Shipping & Transport Lawyer, Vol. 4, No. 2 (January 2004)

 

Ravi Aswani

•    Non disclosure in insurance law, a more principled approach (2006) 64 Amicus Curiae 10
•    Transactions in Fraud of Creditors: The Foreign Element [2005] 1 International Corporate Rescue p.29, co-authored with Steven Gee QC

 

Philip Riches

•    Vaughan and Robertson Law of the European Union (2003), author of chapter on Article 81

 

Tom Whitehead

•    Co-author: United Kingdom and British Maritime Law Association's Joint Response to the IMO Questionnaire on the Salvage Convention 1989 (2004)

 

Professor Charles Debattista

Books

•     The Rotterdam Rules: A Practical Annotation, Informa 2009, co-author
•     Bills of Lading in Export Trade, Tottel Publishing, third edition January 2009
•     Halsbury's Laws of England, vol 4, Carriage and Carriers; November 2008
•     Halsbury's Laws of England, vol 41, Sale of Goods and Supply of Services, 2005.
•     Transfer of Property in International Sales (ICC-Paris, 1999), co-author.
•     Halsbury's Laws of England, vol. 43(2), Shipping and Navigation, 1997, with Hardy Ivamy.
•     Incoterms in Practice (ICC-Paris, 1995), co-author and general editor.
•     Chorley & Giles' Shipping Law (Pitmans 1987), co-author.

Articles

•    The New UCP - Changes to the Tender of Shipping Documents under letters of Credit (2007) Journal of Business Law 329

•    Drafting Enforceable Arbitration Clauses [2005] 21 Arbitration International 233.

•    Lords ruling sets out stance on straight bill presentation". Case-note on the "Raphaela S, HL (Lloyd's List, 2 March 2005). By Charles Debattista and Ingolf Kaiser.

•    "Straight" bills come in from the cold - or do they? A note on the Court of Appeal's judgement in The Rafaela S [2003] 2 Lloyd's Rep 113, cited with approval in the House of Lords judgment in the same case.

•    Demise Clauses in from the cold - or are they? - a note on The Starsin, (Lloyd's List, 21 February 2001), which was cited with approval in the House of Lords, a case in which Steven Gee QC led Vasanti Selvaratnam QC and Mark Jones for the successful party
•   'Laytime and demurrage clauses in contracts of sale - links and connections [2003] Lloyd's Maritime and Commercial Law Quarterly 508-524
•    Straight bills of lading: a continuing saga in the English Courts Questions resolved, untouched and mooted by The Rafaela S in the published proceedings of the International Congress of Maritime Arbitrators, London 2004.

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