British Appeal Commercial Court 21 will start hearings in private today before Lord Justice Walker at the Royal Courts of Justice (London) in the case of Exxon Mobil Cerro Negro Ltd versus Petroleos de Venezuela (PDVSA).
The Venezuelan oil company will be represented by the law firm, Stephenson Harwood whose head of commercial litigation, John Fordham is defending PDVSA's endeavor to have a British Court order to freeze company assets in the UK overturned.
Fordham was instrumental in representing the City of Westminster council's corruption case against Conservative Dame Shirley Porter in 2005 for which the law firm received the dispute resolution team of the year honor at the 2005 Legal Business Awards 2005.
Yesterday, Wednesday, a group of protesters organized by Hands Off Venezuela (UK) gathered outside the Courts of Justice to highlight opposition to ExxonMobil's unwarranted freezing of PDVSA assets.
Patrick J. O'Donoghue
patrick.vheadline@gmail.com
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