JUNIOR PROFILE

Nevil Phillips

UK Bar 2026

Quadrant Chambers

Ranked in 1 practice area

Shipping & Commodities

London (Bar)

24 years ranked

About

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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

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UK Bar

Shipping & Commodities - London (Bar)

Star Individuals

Individual Editorial

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.

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Strengths

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If you need an expert, you go to him as he knows the topic inside out.
Shipping & CommoditiesUK Bar
Nevil is widely acknowledged as one of the leading barristers of the London shipping and commodities Bar. His intelligence and knowledge are second to none.
Shipping & CommoditiesUK Bar
You can always be sure that he will provide a deep and thorough analysis of the law and its impact upon the merits of the claim.
Shipping & CommoditiesUK Bar