Stephen Lloyd

June 10, 2021

Stephen Lloyd retired after nearly 50 years practice on 31st March 2021.  He was called to the Bar by Middle Temple in 1971, elected a Bencher in 1996, Lent Reader in 2014 and for some years joint Master of the Gardens.

He is currently Director of Middle Temple Advocacy which provides  advocacy training for students, pupils and young practitioners.  His publications include The Courts and Gardens of the Middle Temple and (with Lesley Whitelaw) The Middle Temple A Guide.  His paper delivered as Reader was entitled “Is your name Temple? The Story of the Temple Foundlings”.

Alan Tunkel

December 30, 2015

Alan Tunkel’s practice is divided between the contentious and the non-contentious with a bias towards real property matters. Contentious matters are pursued by protocol letters of claim or response, arbitration, mediation or litigation, as appropriate. Non-contentious matters usually involve instructions to prepare or revise draft documentation and advise.

Real property matters include: leasehold enfranchisement, rent reviews, lease renewals, dilapidations, landlord & tenant, conveyancing problems, easements, boundaries, restrictive covenants, adverse possession, construction, mortgage-fraud and property-related professional negligence

Alan’s other main areas of work are will and probate disputes, Inheritance Act claims and problems in private or charitable trusts. He has acted in a number of cases where a former cohabitee is claiming a substantial share of their home by way of constructive trust. He has also acted for several charities and helped them to resolve their problems, sometimes with the assistance of the Charity Commission.

Alan undertakes public access work in compliance with the BSB Handbook and in particular the Public Access Rules, which are Rules C119-C131 of the Code of Conduct.

Alan’s clients have included a foreign government, Local Authorities, housing associations, professional indemnity insurer, solicitors firms, charity trustees, the family of a former Head of State, a foreign princess, leading entertainers, a theme park and well-known property developers.

Daniel Burkitt

December 2, 2015

Daniel has a strong commercial chancery practice focusing on:

  • Commercial litigation. Daniel acts in a wide variety of commercial matters in the High Court and Court of Appeal with particular emphasis on contractual disputes and freezing orders.
  • Banking. Daniel has represented financial institutions and high net worth individuals in substantial lending disputes.
  • Insolvency. Daniel has extensive experience in corporate and personal insolvency matters acting for office holders, creditors and debtors.
  • Arbitration/Mediation. Daniel has acted in English and international mediations and arbitrations including ICC arbitrations.
  • Costs. Daniel strives to protect his clients’ position on costs and recover costs from the other side.

Professor Antonios Tzanakopoulos

August 31, 2018

Antonios is Associate Professor of Public International Law at the University of Oxford; a Law Fellow of St Anne’s College, Oxford; and the Secretary-General of the International Law Association. He is also a qualified Greek lawyer (admitted 2004).

Antonios specialises in public international law; his practice includes advice and advocacy in relation to traditional inter-State disputes (including before the International Court of Justice), investment protection disputes, international human rights law, issues of sovereign immunity, State succession, State responsibility, the law of treaties, and the law of the sea.

Antonios has acted as counsel, advisor, or assistant to counsel, and has provided expert opinions, in a number of cases before international and domestic courts and tribunals, including the International Court of Justice, EU courts, the European Court of Human Rights, ad hoc and ICSID arbitral tribunals, and the High Court of England and Wales. Among his more notable cases as counsel are: in the ICJ, the /Legal Consequences of the Separation of the Chagos Archipelago from Mauritius in 1965 /(for Cyprus), and in ICSID tribunals, ICSID Case No. ARB/14/2 (for Sudan).

Antonios has published widely on questions of international law. His books include:

  • Disobeying the Security Council /(OUP 2011, re-issued in paperback with a new introduction 2013)
  • The Settlement of International Disputes (Hart 2012, co-edited with CJ Tams)
  • The UN Convention on Jurisdictional Immunities of States and their Property (OUP 2013, edited by R O’Keefe and CJ Tams, ass’t ed)
  • and the Research Handbook on the Law of Treaties (Elgar 2014, co-edited with CJ Tams and A Zimmermann, and re-issued in paperback 2016).

He has also published in the fields of the law of the sea, international investment law, and others. Antonios has held visiting appointments in France (Paris X), Israel (IDC Herzliya), and China (China University of Political Science and Law).

Antonios is fluent in German and Greek, and has a working knowledge of French.