N.G. Casey

Date of Birth: 1974
Date of Call: 2005

General Information

1994-1997 BA(Oxon)
1997-2003 PricewaterhouseCoopers
2000 Member of the Institute of Chartered Accountants in England and Wales
2003-2005 Graduate Diploma in Law and Bar Vocational Course, College of Law
2005 Called to the Bar by Lincoln’s Inn

Practice

Commercial law including: insurance and reinsurance; banking; shipping; international trade; sale of goods; professional negligence; and private international law.

Recent cases:

• The Eternity [2009] 1 Lloyd’s Rep 107, involving issues arising out of an amended BP Voy form: in particular, the effect of the incorporation of the Hague-Visby Rules and the operation of the demurrage provisions;
  
• A challenge to the jurisdiction of arbitrators to hear a claim arising under a foreign system of law;

• An application for an interim award for hire withheld under an alleged right of equitable set-off;

• A professional negligence claim against a firm of solicitors;

• An arbitration involving a dispute over damage to a ship’s cranes;

• A number of shipbuilding disputes;

• An arbitration arising out of the charter of a luxury yacht; 

• A two and a half week LMAA arbitration between a P&I Club and one of its members;

• A dispute as to the proper construction and effect of the arbitration clauses in a number of charterparties;

• Two separate matters involving the allegedly defective design and construction of  supermarkets;

• A substantial and high profile fraud action involving a major bank;

• A number of commercial disputes in various county courts.

Before coming to the Bar, Noel qualified as a Chartered Accountant.  He spent six years at PricewaterhouseCoopers, working first in the insurance audit division and latterly in the capital markets group.