Membership details
Shobana iyer
02 October 1974 Swan Chambers Somerset House 0 WC2R 1LA London United Kingdom
Email
Telephone
+442030049466
Lawfirm
Swan Chambers www.swanchambers.com
This member practices in
United Kingdom
Languages
English,
Bar Admission
Bar England & Wales 1998
Degree(s)
Education
LLM (Corporate & Commercial Law) Queen Mary’s University of London
PGDip (Copyright, Designs and Related Rights) King’s College London University of London
BVC BPP Law School London
LLB , Brunel University of West London
BSc King’s College London University of London.
Specialties
Practice areas:
• Commercial & Corporate Law
• Insurance & Reinsurance Law
• Employment Law
• Intellectual Property Law
• Conflict of Laws
• Media & Advertising Law
• IT & Internet Law
• Interim Remedies (inc. Injunctive relief)
Awards & Positions
• Appointed as a Judicial Assistant to the Court of Appeal in 2004 formally assigned to Lord Justice Brooke, Vice-President of the Civil Appeals Division. Also assisted the then Master of the Rolls Sir Anthony Clarke, and Sedley, Mummery and Jacob LJJ.
• Awarded the Peter Duffy Scholar by the Bar European Group in 2000.
Shobana is a practicing barrister with over 15 years of experience in commercial dispute resolution (mainly litigation & arbitrations), and specialises in complex commercial, IP & IT cases.
She is commonly appointed as an arbitral secretary due to her skills and experience as a Judicial Assistance of the Court of Appeal at the Royal Courts of Justice England in 2004 and she independence as a sole-practitioner.
Shobana’s consistent high quality of work is well recognised by top Lord Jusctices:
“She has produced work of a consistently high standard which has been of great assistance to me and other members of Court” ~Rt. Hon. Lord Justice Brooke. Vice President of the Court of Appeal (Civil Division).
“The work she has done in this capacity, both in terms of routine summarising of sometimes complex cases and in making an analysis of the legal issues which arise in them, has been in my experience of a consistently high quality” ~Rt. Hon. Lord Justice Sedley, Court of Appeal (Civil Division).
Shobana has experience in a wide range of arbitration proceedings (including investment treaty disputes) conducted under various institutional rules (including LCIA, ICC, SIAC, WIPO and UNCITRAL) and ad-hoc arrangements.
Shobana has extensive experience of working on challenging and complex cases with an international element. She is commonly instructed
Arbitrator experience
Shobana is a practicing barrister with over 15 years of experience in commercial dispute resolution (mainly litigation & arbitrations), and specialises in complex commercial, IP & IT cases.
She is commonly appointed as an arbitral secretary due to her skills and experience as a Judicial Assistance of the Court of Appeal at the Royal Courts of Justice England in 2004 and she independence as a sole-practitioner.
Shobana’s consistent high quality of work is well recognised by top Lord Jusctices:
“She has produced work of a consistently high standard which has been of great assistance to me and other members of Court” ~Rt. Hon. Lord Justice Brooke. Vice President of the Court of Appeal (Civil Division).
“The work she has done in this capacity, both in terms of routine summari
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