Harris Bor

Practice Overview

Harris is a former solicitor-advocate with years of commercial litigation experienced gained at major UK and US law firms.

His practice covers advising and acting as advocate on a broad range of commercial and commercial chancery matters, with particular emphasis on:

• business litigation, including disputes before the High Court and County Courts, and involving commercial contracts, joint ventures, companies, partnerships, insurance and allegations of fraud;
• international arbitration, including investor/state disputes, under UNCITRAL, ICC, LCIA, Swedish Chamber of Commerce, and ICSID rules; and
• banking and financial services.

Harris has acted in the above matters for investment banks, hedge funds, international and domestic companies, public and government bodies and individuals. Many of his cases have an international element.

Harris is routinely instructed as junior to Queen's Counsel, as well as on his own account.

Harris has also served on arbitration tribunals and is a CEDR Accredited Mediator.

Qualifications

• BA, University College London
• LLM, International & Comparative Dispute Resolution, Queen Mary & Westfield, University of London
• PhD, Cambridge University
• Teaching Assistant, Harvard University
• Visiting Fellow, University College London
• Wingate Scholarship for PhD research
• Ede & Ravenscroft Prize, Inner Temple

Publications

• Arbitration in the UK (forthcoming book for Kluwer Law), joint editor with Julian Lew QC and others.
• "Does National Court Involvement Undermine the International Arbitration Process?" (Assisted author, Julian Lew QC),American University International Law Review, Volume 24, Number 3 (2009).
• "Claims without Contract: Economic Torts Come of Age", The In-House Lawyer, 13 February 2009.
• "Dispute Resolution Clauses - A Contradiction in Terms",The Hedge Fund Journal, 25 September 2008.
• "Arbitration- Running the Line",Legal Week, 15 November 2007.
• "Review Article: A Practical Guide to Mediation in Intellectual Property, Technology & Related Disputes by Jon Lang (2006)",The International Journal of Arbitration, Mediation and Dispute Management.
• "ADR Possibilities in Investor-State Disputes",The International Journal of Arbitration, Mediation and Dispute ManagementVol. 73 No. 1 February 2007.
• "Solvent Abuse on Schemes of Arrangement" (co-author),Legal Week, 8 September 2005.
• "Access to the Internet for the Visually Impaired",E-Business Law Journal, July 2004.
• "Special Feature Article: Restrictive Covenants and Employees Abroad" (co-author),Employment Lawyers' Association Briefing, Vol. 10, September/October 2003.
• "Court Finds ISP Not Liable For Opinion Posted By Users",MLRC Media Law Letter, 27 July 2003.