Ella Rutter and Caspar Ramsay to join Atkin Chambers as tenants
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Atkin Chambers is pleased to announce that Ella Rutter and Caspar Ramsay will join as tenants with effect from Monday 12 […]
5th Sep 2022
Ella joined Chambers as a tenant in September 2022, following the successful completion of her pupillage. Her practice covers all areas of Chambers’ core specialisms, including construction and engineering, technology, energy and natural resources, and professional negligence.
Ella has experience of all stages of litigation, adjudication and arbitration (including ad hoc, CIMAR, HKIAC, ICC, ICSID, LCIA, SIAC and UNCITRAL arbitrations) and has worked with a variety of bespoke and standard form contracts, including NEC, JCT and RIBA.
Ella’s recent instructions include acting as counsel for a major property development company in a multi-million pound construction adjudication and acting as counsel for a firm of chartered surveyors and architectural designers in a professional negligence claim concerning works undertaken to a listed building. She has also worked for barristers in Chambers on several high-value construction disputes.
Ella read Law at Oxford and has a Master of Laws in International and European Law from the University of Ghent. In addition to England and Wales, she also has experience of disputes under other systems of law (including Belizean, Korean and Swiss) and is admitted to practice in New York. Ella was awarded the Queen Mother Scholarship, Middle Temple’s most prestigious award to study for the Bar of England and Wales.
Ella previously lived and worked in France and Belgium, and has a reasonable working knowledge of French.
During pupillage, Ella undertook a number of discrete drafting assignments on construction disputes; including:
* Cases worked on before joining Chambers.
During pupillage, Ella undertook discrete drafting assignments in relation to an ad hoc UNCITRAL oil and gas arbitration in West Africa which raised issues of a technical nature, as well as accountancy issues.
* Cases worked on before joining Chambers.
* Cases worked on before joining Chambers.
During pupillage, Ella undertook a number of discrete drafting assignments in relation to a jurisdictional challenge before the Court of Appeal in a case against the Secretariat of State of the Holy See connected to criminal proceedings in the Vatican State.
* Cases worked on before joining Chambers.
* Cases worked on before joining Chambers.
Puchyna, M., Kelly, J. and Rutter, E., Investment protection on the Belt and Road, 2 Journal of Subsoil Use and Law 176 (2019).
Assisted with drafting chapters of the second and third editions of Gary Born, International Commercial Arbitration.
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Qualification
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Oct 2019 – Aug 2021 | Graduate Lawyer (Awaiting English Bar Qualification) – WilmerHale, London – International Arbitration Practice Group
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Mar 2021 | Bar Transfer Test, BPP University
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April 2020 | Admitted as a Solicitor of the Senior Courts of England and Wales
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Dec 2019 | Admitted as an Attorney and Counselor-at-Law of the Supreme Court of New York State
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Jan 2019 – Mar 2019 | Legal Intern – WilmerHale, London – International Arbitration Practice Group
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May 2019 | Queen Mother Scholarship, Middle Temple (Unclaimed)
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May 2019 | Harmsworth Entrance Exhibition, Middle Temple (Unclaimed)
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Jul 2018 – Dec 2018 | Trainee (“Stagiaire”) – Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer, Paris – International Arbitration Practice Group
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Mar 2018 – Jun 2018 | Legal Intern – Fietta LLP, London
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Jul 2017 – Dec 2017 | Trainee (“Stagiaire”) – Allen & Overy, Paris – International Arbitration Practice Group
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Jan 2017 – Jun 2017 | Legal Intern (“Juriste Adviseur”) – Everest Attorneys (legal assistant to Dr Herman Verbist), Ghent
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Oct 2016 – Dec 2016 | Research Assistant to Professor Maud Piers – University of Ghent, Department of Interdisciplinary Study of Law, Private Law and Business Law
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May 2016 and Mar 2017 | Legal Intern – De Mulemeester & De Brabandere (formerly Lexlitis Ghent) (legal assistant to Mr Dirk De Meulemeester), Ghent
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2015 – 2016 | LL.M. in International and European Law, University of Ghent (summa cum laude, 1st in year)
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2012 – 2015 | Geoffrey Jones (Penreithin) Scholarship [Awarded four times]
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2012 – 2015 | BA in Jurisprudence, New College, University of Oxford (II.i)
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Before transferring to the Bar, Ella practiced for two years as a solicitor and New York attorney in the international arbitration practice group of an international US law firm in London (WilmerHale), where she was a member of teams advising on and acting as counsel in high-value arbitrations and litigations, with a focus on complex multi-jurisdictional disputes concerning issues of English law.
Before that, Ella had undertaken intern- and traineeships (“stages”) for two years in the international arbitration practices of several leading law firms, including in the Paris offices of Freshfields (six months) and Allen & Overy (six months), where she assisted counsel in a number of international arbitrations across Africa, Asia, the Caribbean, the CIS, Europe and the Middle-East.
Before that, Ella spent six months working for arbitrators (Dr Herman Verbist and Professor Dirk De Meulemeester), which involved assisting at arbitral hearings and with drafting awards. Between that and graduating, Ella worked for three months as a research assistant to Professor Maud Piers in relation to a series of articles on international arbitration.
Ella is a member of COMBAR, TECBAR, SCL, Young ICCA, ICC YIAF, YIAG, HK45, CEPANI 40 and Young ICSID.