The Legal 500

Position

Barrister specialising in public and administrative law, European Community law, competition law, and human rights. Some important recent cases: Supreme Court/House of Lords: Duncombe & Fletcher v Secretary of State for Schools (forthcoming); R v GG plc [2008] UKHL 17; R (Bancoult No 2) v Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs [2008] UKHL 61; Chargot v Health and Safety Executive [2008] UKHL 73. Court of Appeal: Enron v EWS [2011] EWCA Civ 2; R (Community for the Many Names of God) v Welsh Assembly Government (Shambo) [2007] EWCA Civ 893; Monro v Commissioners of Customs & Excise [2008] EWCA Civ 306; British Horseracing Board v Attheraces [2007] EWCA Civ 38;OFT v Lloyds [2006] 2 All ER 821. High Court: Law Society v Legal Services Commission [2010] EWHC 2550 (Admin); Pride & ors v Merial, Institute of Animal Health, and Department for the Environment, Food and Rural Affairs [2009] EWHC 685; R (Cityhook) v Office of Fair Trading [2009] EWHC 204 (Admin); R (British Medical Association) v Department of Health [2008] EWHC 599 (Admin); R (British Casinos Association) v Department for Culture, Media and Sport [2007] EWHC 1312 (Admin); R (Cemex) v Defra and DTI [2006] EWHC 3207 (Admin); R (Wildman) v Ofcom [2005] EWHC 1575. Competition Appeal Tribunal: Premier League v Ofcom (forthcoming); Enron v EWS [2009] CAT 36; Hays & ors v OFT (forthcoming); UniChem v OFT [2005] CAT 8; Celesio v OFT [2006] CAT 9; Racecourse Association v OFT [2005] CAT 29. European Court of Justice: Case 2001/37 R (Swedish Match) v Secretary of State for Health; Kadi (No 2) v Commission (); Den Dover v Parliament (forthcoming); IRISL v Council (forthcoming); T-181/08 Tay Za v Council (appeal pending); T-55/08 UEFA v Commission); T-385/07 FIFA v Commission (). European Court of Human Rights: Georgia v Russian Federation (forthcoming); Yukos v Russian Federation (forthcoming); Mattilla v Finland (77138/01); Bancoult v United Kingdom (forthcoming). Supreme Court of the Falkland Islands: R (Bingham v Governor of the Falkland Islands).

Career

Called to Bar 2000; Lincoln’s Inn; Attorney General’s Panel of Counsel (C Panel 2005; B Panel 2008); secretary to the Human Rights Lawyers Association; Bar Council European Committee. Selected by ‘The Times’ in 2008 as one of the ten ‘Future Stars of the Bar’, nominated for Competition/EU Junior of the Year at Chambers & Partners Bar Awards 2010. Publications include: contributor to ‘Competition Litigation’ (eds Brealey & Green, OUP 2010); ‘EU Competition Law: Procedures and Remedies’, by Gray, Lester et al (OUP 2006); sub-editor and annual updater of ‘Human Rights Practice’ (eds Simor and Emmerson, Sweet & Maxwell); ‘Prosecuting Cartels for Conspiracy to Defraud’ (Competition Law Journal 2008); ‘Judicial Review in the UK of Competition and State Aid Decisions’ (2007, Common Market Law Review); ‘UniChem v OFT’ Competition Law Journal (Issue 2 2005); ‘Puzzling over Abuse of Right’ European Current Law (2004); ‘Human Rights -The International Dimension’ The Lawyer (2004). Legal work includes: Volunteer at South Westminster Legal Advice Centre; Participant in Slynn Foundation, Interrights and Council of Europe training on EU and human rights law (Poland, Kosovo, Czech Republic, Hungary and Serbia); Speaker at Anglo-Finnish Competition Law Trust conferences (Finland, Estonia); Tutor in European Law, City University (1999-2000); Foreign law clerk to Chief Justice Barak and Justice Beinisch, Supreme Court of Israel (Pegasus Scholarship 2006); Stagiaire in Cabinet of Advocate General Jacobs, European Court of Justice (2000); Summer clerk in Chambers of Judge Thelton Henderson, District Court for the Northern District of California (1998); Summer Associate at Williams & Connolly, Washington DC (1998); Intern at Open Society Institute, Soros Foundation, New York (1997).

Languages

Competent French; basic Italian.

Member

Human Rights Lawyers Association (secretary and founder member); Bar European Group; European Circuit; Administrative and Constitutional Law Bar Association; Competition Law Association. United Kingdom reporter for LIDC Convention, 2009.

Education

James Allen’s Girls’ School, London; Clare College, Cambridge (1996 BA History First Class. Received Paul Mellon Fellowship, Clare College Foundation Scholarship and History Award); Yale Law School, USA as Paul Mellon Fellow (1997 MSL; 1998 Visiting Scholar); City University, London (1999 CPE distinction 1st place); Inns of Court School of Law, London (2000 BVC); Lincolns Inn (2000 call) received Lincolns Inn CPE Award, Hardwicke Scholarship, Mansfield Scholarship, Robert Wright Mooting Competition Prize.

Leisure

Music (viola, classical guitar), theatre (reviews for onlinerreviewlondon.com).

Practice Areas

Administrative and public law; Civil liberties and human rights; EU and competition