James M Turner QC MCIArb is a barrister at Quadrant Chambers. He specialises in cross-border commercial disputes in international arbitration, energy, shipbuilding, offshore construction, and shipping. He appears most often before tribunals in arbitrations under LCIA, ICC, HKIAC and LMAA procedural rules and has taken appointments as arbitrator in ad hoc, LMAA, ICC and LCIA references. As counsel, he has successfully resisted numerous applications for permission to appeal under the AA 1996, s 69.