V. V. Veeder Q.C.
Essex Court Chambers
24 Lincoln’s Inn Fields
London WC2A 3ED
England
Member, the English Bar (1972- ); Advocate, English Courts in London and overseas in Hong Kong, Bermuda and Luxembourg; advocate or arbitrator in arbitration proceedings in London, The Hague, Paris, Geneva, Lausannne, Zurich, New York, Amsterdam, Milan, Copenhagen and
Stockholm; chairman, Independent Inquiry into Capital Market Activities of the London Borough of Hammersmith and Fulham (1990-1991)
Member, Department of Trade and Industry Advisory Committee on the Law of Arbitration; Director, LCIA
Chairman, ARIAS-AIDA, UK; Hon. Vice-President, ARIAS, Bermuda; Member of the United Kingdom’s Dept. Of Trade and Industry Advisory Committee on the Law of Arbitration (1990-1996); Member, Contract Recognition Board for FIA Formula 1 World Championship, Geneva;
Member, Joint Panel of Presiding Arbitrators for the AAA-Russian Chamber of Commerce 1992 Optional Arbitration Clause, Stockholm; Member, ICAC List of Arbitrators, Moscow; Vice-President and member, LCIA Arbitration Court; Director, LCIA Ltd.; Member, ICC, UK; Fellow, Chartered Inst. Of Arbitrators; Freeman, Worshipful Company of Arbitrators; Member, Swedish Chamber of Commerce International Advisory Board; President and member, Milan Chamber of Commerce and Industry’s “Club of Arbitrators” (1985-1986); Honorary member, International Arbitration Centre of the Hashemite Assoc. for International Economic Cooperation; Member, Tier 2 Panel of Arbitrators for
Lloyd’s Arbitration Scheme; Member, Arbitration Panel of the Austrian Federal Economic Chamber, Vienna; Member of European International Contractors’ List of Arbitrators, Wiesbaden; Member, British Maritime Law Assoc.; Supporting member, London Maritime Arbitrators’ Assoc.; Member, International Law Assoc. Executive Committee (Arbitration); Vice-President, British-Russian Legal Assoc.
As advocate, under ad hoc arbitration in London; institutional arbitration in London under GAFTA & LME rules; under ICC Rules in London, the Netherlands, France, Geneva and Sweden, covering a broad range of international commercial disputes; as arbitrator and presiding arbitrator in LMAA, ICC, LCIA, UNCITRAL and ad hoc arbitrations in London, Paris, Copenhagen and the Netherlands
C-Editor, Arbitratioon International, (1985- ); Author of the ICCA National Report on “England” (1997); Author, “La Nouvelle Loi de l’arbitrage de 1996”, Revue de l’arbitrage (1997); Author, Report on “The Law Applicable in International Arbitration” at the 1994 ICCA Congress in Vienna, published in ICCA Congress Series No. 7 (1996; Kluwer); Author, “Mr. Justice Lawrance: the “True Begetter of the English Commercial Court” (1994) 110 LQR 292; Author, “Two Arbitral Butterflies: Bramwell and David” in The Internationalisation of International Arbitration: The LCIA Centenary Conference (1995) eds Hunter, Marriott and Veeder; and numerous other publications.