10/09/2024

Twenty Essex welcomes four new tenants

We are pleased to welcome Andrew Brown, Eliza Bond, Jiahui Huang and Alicia Lawson, who have joined chambers upon successful completion of their pupillage.

Before joining chambers, Andrew Brown gained exposure to a wide range of issues of commercial law and public international law, having worked as a judicial assistant in the Court of Appeal to Lord Justice Males and as a research assistant to Professor Philippa Webb. He studied law at King’s College London and international law at the Geneva Graduate Institute, graduating with first-class honours and summa cum laude respectively.

Eliza Bond read law at the University of Cambridge, where she ranked first in her year and won various subject prizes. She went on to complete the BCL at the University of Oxford, where she achieved a Distinction. She taught Equity at Jesus College, Cambridge, during the bar course, and has published in the Cambridge Law Journal and Lloyd’s Maritime and Commercial Law Quarterly.

Before coming to the bar, Jiahui Huang was an assistant registrar and district judge at the Supreme Court of Singapore and special assistant to the chief justice of Singapore, having previously clerked for the judges of the Singapore Court of Appeal and High Court and the Singapore International Commercial Court. He studied law at the University of Oxford, where he came first in his year, and received an LLM from Harvard Law School.

Alicia Lawson joins chambers following a career in business, during which time she was one of Forbes magazine’s ‘30 under 30’ social entrepreneurs. She has also worked at the Good Law Project, where she worked on several high-profile environmental and public law cases, and for the AIRE Centre, where she contributed to a series of papers on business, human rights and the environment. She has a double first-class degree in classics from the University of Oxford.

Philip Edey KC and Charles Kimmins KC, co-heads of chambers at Twenty Essex, commented:

“We are thrilled officially to welcome Andrew, Eliza, Jiahui and Alicia as members of Twenty Essex. They have excelled as pupils, and we are looking forward to seeing them establish their practices as part of our growing membership. Pupillage remains the principal route into the English Bar for aspiring practitioners from around the world, and we are delighted that Twenty Essex continues to attract such outstanding individuals. We wish all our newest members every success as they commence their careers.”

Twenty Essex continues to expand its team and expertise across all areas of commercial law practice. Contact a member of the practice management team to find out more.