Cripps Harries Hall

Peter Ashford

Partner

Peter Ashford has handled commercial disputes for 25 years.  He is experienced in disputes of considerable factual complexity; involving allegations of dishonesty and with accounting or loss of profits claims.  He represents clients before the English courts and in international arbitrations and is a Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators and a mediator.

Expertise

  • Arbitration (dispute resolution)
  • Commercial litigation
  • Alternative dispute resolution (commercial)
  • Fraud
  • Disputes

Memberships

  • Association of Partnership Practitioners
  • Fellow Chartered Institute of Arbitrators
  • LCIA

Career

  • Partner, Cripps Harries Hall LLP, 1991
  • Associate, Cripps Harries Hall LLP, 1989
  • Solicitor, Cripps Harries Hall LLP, 1987
  • Solicitor, Calow Easton, 1986
  • Acting for a Czech Investment Fund in a dispute with an English merchant bank over banking covenants concerning a shareholding in a major department store in Prague
  • Acting for English/Italian joint venture company in dispute with global vehicle manufacturer with headquarters in Chicago. Claims for unpaid invoices and injunctions to restrain interference with contractual rights and acted for same JV company in resisting claim that contract lawfully terminated for overcharging and dishonesty. Counterclaim for lost profit for wrongful termination
  • Acting for listed UK plc in dispute with US wine company in dispute over termination of distribution and storage contract
  • Acting on claim for commissions due for introductions of Chinese oil and gas exploration company to opportunities in Saudi Arabia
Legal updates view all
+ Contract construction after Chartbrook
Previously published in the'In-house perspective' Volume 6 issue 1
 18/07/2011
+ International arbitration law - Arbitration 'super-injunctions'
Whilst the English tabloid press works itself into a frenzy over 'super-injunctions' to protect the privacy of the rich and famous from exposure and ridicule over their adultery and other indiscretions, the Commercial Court and the Court of Appeal are steadily refining the 'super-injunction' of the arbitration field: the anti-suit injunction.
 07/06/2011
+ Arbitration law update - Arbitrators' Repeat Appointments and Conflicts of Interest - March 2011
The IBA Guidelines on Conflicts of Interest in International Arbitration (the "IBA Guidelines") are widely recognised as the definitive guide to conflicts and set out general principles and guidance to assist parties and arbitrators in assessing and dealing with potential conflicts of interest.
 22/03/2011
+ Commercial dispute resolution - Discriminatory choice of Arbitrators - July 2010
The Court of Appeal has decided that an arbitration agreement requiring an arbitrator to be a member of a particular religious group is void.
 01/07/2010
+ Commercial dispute resolution - The IBA Rules are Revised - June 2010
The IBA Rules on the Taking of Evidence in International Commercial Arbitration ("the Rules") are one of the few safe havens in international arbitration. Most parties, counsel and tribunals adopt the Rules either expressly in the Terms of Reference or first procedural order, or are otherwise guided by them.
 01/06/2010
Guidance view all
+ Guide to dispute resolution
Whilst this is a guide to dispute resolution it focuses on matters which ultimately end up in court. Most disputes are settled without going to court and the modern approach is very much to consider litigation as a last resort.
23/03/2011