Nevil Phillips
UK Bar Guide 2025
Star Individuals : Shipping & Commodities
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About
Provided by Nevil Phillips
Practice Areas
Barrister specialising in commercial and shipping law, including international contracts of sale, sale of goods, carriage of goods, energy, shipbuilding, insurance, insolvency and arbitration; Admiralty law including towage, salvage, collision; associated aspects of dry and wet shipping law.
Career
Qualified 1992; Gray’s Inn; visiting lecturer City University 1993-94; author ‘The Merchant Shipping Act 1995 – An Annotated Guide’, LLP; contributing author ‘Butterworths commercial Court and Arbitration Pleadings’, 2005; Editorial Board Member, Lloyd’s Law Reports.
Professional Memberships
COMBAR; supporting member LMAA; Gray’s Inn; Middle Temple.
Personal
Languages: French, Spanish (working knowledge in each).
Education: Tunbridge Wells Technical High (later, Grammar) School for Boys; Southampton University (1990 BA Hons); City University (1991 Dip Law); University College, London (1993 LLM).
Interests: Music, the arts, humour, family life.
Chambers Review
UK Bar
Nevil Phillips is an outstanding junior with an excellent and longstanding reputation who frequently appears unled against KCs. He has marked experience covering wet and dry shipping disputes, and he has authored a leading text on the Merchant Shipping Act 1995.
Strengths
Provided by Chambers
"Nevil is the star of the shipping Bar. He is fiercely intelligent and practically-minded. Judges warm to him as he delivers oral arguments effortlessly."
"Nevil is incredibly good at the details of complex dry shipping matters. He is super hard-working and always available to discuss."
"Nevil never disappoints. He is incredibly hard-working and he goes beyond excellent to bring deep insights that others can't match."
"Nevil is the star of the shipping Bar. He is fiercely intelligent and practically-minded. Judges warm to him as he delivers oral arguments effortlessly."
"Nevil is incredibly good at the details of complex dry shipping matters. He is super hard-working and always available to discuss."
"Nevil never disappoints. He is incredibly hard-working and he goes beyond excellent to bring deep insights that others can't match."
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