The Fountain Court Chambers Podcast

This is the fourth episode in the second series of The Fountain Court Podcast. The episode is hosted by Andrew Pullen, a barrister at Fountain Court Chambers, and is a recording of a virtual panel discussion hosted in November 2021. Andrew specialises in international arbitration, appearing as counsel and sitting as arbitrator. He is an English-qualified barrister, based in Singapore since 2011.Th...

This is the third episode in the second series of The Fountain Court Podcast. The episode is hosted by Richard Lissack QC, a silk at Fountain Court Chambers, and is a recording of a virtual panel discussion hosted by Fountain Court’s commercial crim group in October 2021, on the topic of UK Corporate Criminal Liability. Richard Lissack QC is a nationally and internationally recognised leader in th...

This is the second episode in the second series of the Fountain Court Podcast. The episode is hosted by Leigh-Ann Mulcahy QC, a silk at Fountain Court, and is a recording of a virtual panel discussion hosted by Fountain Court in July 2021, on the topical issue of insurance aggregation. Leigh-Ann Mulcahy QC was named ‘Insurance Silk of the Year’ by Chambers & Partners in 2016 and has expertise acro...

This is the first episode in the new series of the Fountain Court Podcast. This episode looks at the implications of a post-Brexit world for civil litigation, particularly when it comes to issues such as jurisdiction and enforcement. Taking part in the conversation are: • Alexandra Whelan – a barrister who has been with Fountain Court since 2016, having previously practiced as a solicitor in Austr...

This episode is hosted by Fountain Court senior junior Nik Yeo. It looks at algorithms and, in particular, the distinction between deterministic and non-deterministic algorithms. Nik is joined by three other specialists in this area, who all bring a different perspective to the discussion. They are: • Julia Smithers Excell who is a partner in the financial services regulatory team of White & Case....

This is the second part of Fountain Court’s 360-degree analysis of the Singapore disputes regime, hosted by Singapore-based Fountain Court barrister Andrew Pullen. Part 1 featured two conversations – one with Smitha Menon of Wong Partnership about current trends and developments in the jurisdiction, and another about arbitration in Asia with Delphine Ho of the Singapore International Arbitration C...

This episode is the first of two hosted by Singapore-based Fountain Court barrister Andrew Pullen, looking at the dispute resolution landscape in Singapore. Singapore is well-established amongst the leading centres for international arbitration globally, but this is not the whole story; each of the four conversations across these two episodes focuses on a different part of the disputes picture. Th...

This episode is hosted by Fountain Court barrister Gillian Hughes and features an interview with our Head of Chambers and one of the pre-eminent silks at the English Bar, Bankim Thanki QC. Bankim’s practice spans a range of areas including commercial litigation, banking, regulatory work, and arbitration. He is ranked for his work in various areas by the legal directories and is considered the lead...

This episode is hosted by Fountain Court barrister Laura John and features a discussion with five of our newest QCs who each took silk in 2020. Taking silk herself this year, Laura spoke to her peers about what to expect in her first 12 months. Amongst other things, they discussed the perceptions of silks and their traits and skills, the right time to apply for silk and the experience of that appl...

This episode is hosted by Fountain Court barrister Tetyana Nesterchuk and looks at some recent arbitration law decisions of the UK courts, including a number in which Fountain Court members were involved. The discussion was recorded in January 2021 and covers the Supreme Court decisions in Halliburton v Chubb and Enka v Chubb, the Court of Appeal decision in A & Another v C & Others, and the recen...

This episode is hosted by Fountain Court barrister Rebecca Loveridge and looks at some of the hot topics in the law of privilege. The discussion was recorded in the autumn of 2020 and covers a range of topics including the thorny issue of who constitutes the ‘client’ in a corporate context for the purposes of legal advice privilege, the new application of the “dominant purpose test” for legal advi...

This episode is hosted by Fountain Court barrister Niamh Cleary and looks at future trends in insurance litigation. The discussion covers a range of topics, including insurance disputes likely to arise out of the COVID-19 pandemic (other than business interruption coverage that is already very much front and centre in the legal news). We also discuss more long-term trends, such as the impact of cl...

Welcome to the first episode of the Fountain Court podcast. Each month we’ll be exploring key trends and issues, across the practice areas in which our barristers specialise. This episode is hosted by Gillian Hughes, a barrister at Fountain Court Chambers, where she spoke to our three newest tenants about their experience of pupillage. Joining her in this episode is Marcus Field, Nathalie Koh and...

This episode is hosted by Fountain Court barrister Leonora Sagan and focuses on commercial crime and money laundering. In September 2020, there was a leak of thousands of Suspicious Activity Reports (‘SARs’) filed by financial institutions, dubbed the ‘FinCEN leak’. This has caused much discussion about the implications and for some to call for a review of the relevant regulation and compliance sy...