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Professor Norman Palmer joins 3 Stone Buildings

01 June 2006

We are pleased to announce that Professor Norman Palmer has accepted an invitation to join chambers.

Norman Palmer practices mainly in the area of cultural property, personal property and commercial transactions. He advises governments, financial institutions, trading corporations and leading museums. He is standing counsel to the National Gallery of Australia and an honorary member of Seven Wentworth, the chambers of David Jackson QC in Sydney. In 2000 he was appointed Chairman of the Illicit Trade Advisory Panel, and in 2001 Chairman of the Treasure Valuation Committee. He is a member of the Spoliation Advisory Panel. In 2006 he was appointed CBE for services to art and to law.

Norman Palmer has written or edited some of the principal practitioner works within his field (eg Bailment, Museums and the Holocaust, The Recovery of Stolen Art, Art Loans, and various titles in Halsbury's Law of England, including Bailment, Carriers, Damages and Tort). He is a Visiting Professor of Law at King's College London and holds degrees from the Universities of Oxford and Geneva (docteur honoris causa).