PARTNERS
NIGEL READY M.A. (Cantab) - Senior Partner
Read languages & law at Jesus College, Cambridge; joined Cheeswrights in 1975, admitted as a notary in 1980; partner of Cheeswrights in 1981. Publications: editor, Tenth (1988), Eleventh (1992), Twelfth (2002) and Thirteenth (2009) editions of “Brooke’s Notary” (Sweet and Maxwell, London) and Hong Kong supplement (2005); consulting editor, Ship Registration: Law and Practice (2002); with the late Theodoros Karatzas of the Athens Bar and subsequently Governor of the National Bank of Greece, “The Greek Code of Private Maritime Law” (1982). He is a past master (2002-2003) of the Worshipful Company of Scriveners member of the livery of the Worshipful Company of Shipwrights and Deputy Commissioner of Maritime Affairs of the Republic of Vanuatu.
RUTH M. CAMPBELL M.A.
Read languages and literature at Liverpool University; post graduate studies at Leeds University; diplomas from the universities of Besançon, Clermont-Ferrand and Lisbon. Admitted as a notary in 1984 and Partner of Cheeswrights since 1988. She has been a member of WISTA-UK, the organisation for women involved in shipping and trading, since 1993 and is the Master of the Worshipful Company of Scriveners for 2010-2011.
JEREMY BURGESS M.A. (Cantab) - Managing Partner
Former Open Exhibitioner of Downing College, Cambridge, where he read history; joined the firm as an articled clerk in 1985 and qualified in 1990. Partner of Cheeswrights since 1994 and managing partner since 2009. He is the chairman of the Society of Scrivener Notaries and an English delegate to the United Kingdom Notarial Forum.
EDWARD GARDINER
Joined the firm in 1987 as an articled clerk; spent one year of his articles working in a notarial office in Toulouse, France; admitted as a notary in 1994. Partner of Cheeswrights since 1996.
ANDREW CLAUDET B.A. (Hons.)
Read French and German at Collingwood College, Durham, spending a year of his studies working in Austria; joined the firm in 1993 and spent a year of his articles at law offices in Athens & Hamburg. Partner of Cheeswrights since 2001.
IAIN ROGERS M.A. (Cantab)
Read Russian & French at Clare College, Cambridge and spent one year teaching in Nizhny Novgorod, Russia; joined Cheeswrights in 1995. Specialist in Eastern European languages. Partner of Cheeswrights since 2002.
Other Notaries at present associated with Cheeswrights:
Alisa Grafton: B.A. (Hons)
Originally from Moscow, qualified as a Russian lawyer in 2000. Joined Cheeswrights in 2001 and admitted as a notary in 2005. Studied and worked in Madrid as a part of the qualification process to become a Scrivener Notary. Specialises in Russian matters and has an interest in Spanish and Brazilian Portuguese.
Luis Hyde-Vaamonde: LLB (Hons)
Read Law with European Legal Studies at King’s College London; joined Cheeswrights as an articled clerk in 2003; spent five months of his articles working in a firm of notaries in Buenos Aires, Argentina; qualified as a general notary in 2007 and as a Scrivener notary in 2008.
Emma Wilkinson B.A. (Hons)
Read French and Italian at St. Aidan’s College, Durham, spending a year of her studies in Bologna (Italy); joined the firm in 2005 and qualified as a general notary in 2009. In 2010 she spent six months in Rome in the office of a notary there.
Michelle Scott B.A. (Hons)
Read French and Italian at St. Hild and St. Bede’s college, Durham, spending a year of her studies in Florence (Italy) and Clermont-Ferrand (France); studied the law conversion course at the College of Law; joined the firm in 2006 and qualified as a general notary in 2009.
