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Brick Court Chambers

Chambers of Jonathan Hirst QC and Nicholas Green QC

7-8 ESSEX STREET, LONDON, WC2R 3LD, ENGLAND
Tel:
Work 020 7379 3550
Fax:
Fax 020 7379 3558
DX:
302 LONDON CHANCERY LANE WC2
Web:
www.brickcourt.co.uk
Email:
London, Brussels

Brick Court Chambers is one of the leading sets of barristers chambers in the UK.

The set: There are 73 members who practise full-time made up of 36 QC and 37 juniors, and a further 13 highly respected door tenants. Chambers specialises in commercial, EU/competition and public law, maintaining a strong reputation in all areas.

Types of work undertaken: Commercial work includes all aspects of international trade, finance and commerce, with particular emphasis on banking, insurance, reinsurance, shipping and ‘city’ work, and on private international law. Members of chambers also specialise in fields as diverse as professional negligence, media and entertainment law, defamation, takeovers and mergers, employment law, sports law and public international law. The majority of chambers work consists of High Court litigation and commercial arbitrations, together with appeals to the Court of Appeal, the Supreme Court, Privy Council and associated advisory work. Junior members of chambers also undertake more varied common law work in the County Court and in employment tribunals.

Brick Court Chambers has an outstanding team of EU lawyers who are specialists in all aspects of EU and competition litigation. EU law practitioners appear in the full range of English courts and tribunals, before the OFT, Competition Commission and Competition Appeals Tribunal, as well as in the Court of Justice and General Court in Luxembourg and a wide range of other international courts and arbitral tribunals. Members of chambers have considerable expertise in human rights and in commercial and regulatory judicial review, a field which enables chambers to combine its strengths in public, commercial and EU law.

Members of Brick Court Chambers are clearly recognised as leaders in their fields evidenced by their presence in the most important and high-profile cases within those fields. Recent examples of work are: BP v TNK , BSKYB v OFCOM (Pay TV), Yukos v Russian Federation (ECHR), BAA v Competition Commission (Court of Appeal) and Building for Schools.

Above material supplied by Brick Court Chambers (Chambers of Jonathan Hirst QC and Nicholas Green QC).

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