Eliza accepts instructions across all of Chambers’ core practice areas, including shipping, insurance, and insolvency.
Before joining Chambers, Eliza read Law at the University of Cambridge, where she ranked first in her year overall and received subject prizes for commercial, company and EU law. Eliza went on to complete the BCL at the University of Oxford, where she received a distinction and subject prizes for financial law and business taxation.
In 2022–23, Eliza taught Equity at Jesus College, Cambridge. She has published articles in the Cambridge Law Journal and Lloyd’s Maritime and Commercial Law Quarterly.
Eliza can speak conversational Mandarin Chinese and has a strong interest in the Asia-Pacific region.
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Arbitration
- Drafted (as a pupil) pleadings in a claim under ICC rules concerning the proper construction of a share purchase agreement.
Civil fraud and asset tracing
- Drafted (as a pupil) pleadings, an opinion and a skeleton argument for Josh Folkard in relation to a multi-jurisdictional unlawful means conspiracy claim: Galliani v Sartori [2023] EWHC 3306 (Comm).
Commodities and international trade
- Drafted (as a pupil) an opinion for Tom Corby on the merits of an argument that a term in a contract was an unenforceable agreement to agree: KSY Juice Blends v Citrosuco [2024] EWHC 2098 (Comm).
- Drafted (as a pupil) an opinion concerning the effect of a sanctions clause on the enforceability of a commodities contract.
- Drafted (as a pupil) a skeleton argument seeking to uphold a GAFTA arbitral award in the context of a section 69 challenge.
Insolvency and restructuring
- Drafted (as a pupil) a skeleton argument for an order under section 303(2) of the Insolvency Act 1986.
Insurance
- Drafted (as a pupil) pleadings and CMC documents in a Covid-19 business interruption claim.
- Drafted (as a pupil) an opinion on the proper construction of a war risks policy in the context of a claim for cargo damage.
Jurisdiction, conflicts and enforcement
- Assisted (as a pupil) Josh Folkard in a claim relating to the enforceability of a foreign arbitral award.
Shipping
- Ithaca Prospect LLC v Berkshire Hathaway (claim no. CL-2024-000436): Instructed by underwriters defending a claim for sue and labour expenses and an additional war risk premium (led by Oliver Caplin KC).
- Drafted (as a pupil) a defence and counterclaim in a case concerning a cargo exclusion clause under SHELLTIME4.
- Drafted (as a pupil) pleadings in a claim which raised issues concerning COGSA 1992, bailment on terms and the Hague-Visby time bar.
- Drafted (as a pupil) an opinion in relation to an unsafe port claim.
- Drafted (as a pupil) an opinion on the merits of an anti-arbitration injunction under a charterparty.
- Assisted (as a pupil) Oliver Caplin KC in an arbitration concerning various charterparty issues, including off-hire, oil major approvals and termination.
- Drafted (as a pupil) a skeleton argument for David Lewis KC resisting an application brought under section 69 in relation to the proper construction of clause 14 of the Norwegian SALEFORM: The Lila Lisbon [2024] EWHC 2075 (Comm).
- Drafted (as a pupil) an opinion on the proper construction of refund guarantee provisions under a shipbuilding contract.
- Drafted (as a pupil) a skeleton resisting an application to set aside a section 68 challenge on paper in the context of a shipbuilding dispute.
Technology, media and telecoms
- AQA Education v Persons Unknown (claim no. BL-2023-001318): Claim brought by a public examination provider against specific persons unknown and ‘newcomers’, seeking injunctions to restrain those persons from attempting to obtain advance access to A-Level and GCSE examination papers or selling those papers online (led by Matthew McGhee).
