Robert Webb QC has previously been a Door Tenant at Brick Court Chambers from 2009-2012 before he became General Counsel of Rolls Royce, a post from which he retired in 2015, to rejoin Brick Court. Called to the Bar in 1971, he became a Silk in 1988 and was Head of Chambers at 5, Bell Yard for ten years, from 1988-1998. His practice was commercial aviation and much involved in ‘mass disasters’ and multi-forum issues. For example, the recovery for insurers of much of the Kuwait Airways fleet in Gulf War I; the sinking of the Herald of Free enterprise at Zeebrugge; the shooting down of the Korean Airline flight KAL 007 by the Russians. He was also Counsel to the Royal Pharmaceutical Society for a decade, fighting specialist cases in this area, in Europe and in the UK. After leaving the Bar for commercial life initially, for ten years as General Counsel at British Airways and as a Director of the London Stock Exchange (retiring as Senior Independent Director in 2015), he left British Airways and went on to be a Director of a number of public companies; Chairman of Autonomy (a FTSE 100 company), BBC Worldwide (the commercial arm of the BBC) and Senior Independent Director of Argent Group (the property company developing Kings Cross). He was a Recorder of the Crown Court from 1993-1998 and has arbitrated as well as argued a great number of commercial and aviation disputes in the UK and around the world.
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