Sir Nigel Teare

Quadrant Chambers

Sir Nigel Teare sat as a judge of the Queen’s Bench Division from 2006 until his retirement from the High Court bench on 30 September 2020. Sir Nigel has had an exceptional career first as counsel and then as a High Court Judge. In 2011 he was nominated the Admiralty judge. He was appointed judge in charge of the Commercial Court in October 2017, which he held until his retirement. He now accepts appointments as an Arbitrator as a member of Arbitrators at 10 Fleet Street.

He has decided many of the most high-profile cases of recent years across many different business sectors. Most recently, in 2019-2020 he decided which of two claimants to the Presidency of Venezuela was entitled to give instructions to the Bank of England regarding Venezuela’s gold reserves (Deutsche Bank and Bank of England v Central Bank of Venezuela [2020] EWHC 1721 (Comm), who was party to a shareholders’ agreement concerning a valuable site in central Moscow (Filatona and Deripaska v Navigator and Chernukhin [2019] EWHC 173 (Comm), whether a shipowner had scuttled his ship by arranging for it to be attacked by persons pretending to be pirates (Suez Fortune v Talbot Underwriting [2019] EWHC 259 (Comm), whether Liverpool Football Club was entitled to have Nike sponsor its football shirts (New Balance Athletics v Liverpool FC [2019] EWHC 2837 (Comm) and whether a defective passage plan rendered a vessel unseaworthy (Alise 1954 v Allianz [2019] EWHC 481 (Admlty).