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Tom Coates
Position
Barrister specialising in public & regulatory, commercial litigation, EU & competition, telecommunications, civil liberties & human rights, employment, civil fraud, sport and public international law. Full professional career details can be found at www.blackstonechambers.com.
Career
Qualified October 2013, Lincoln’s Inn
Lawyer Rankings
London Bar > Aviation
(Leading Juniors)Ranked: Tier 3Tom Coates – Blackstone Chambers
‘Tom is an immensely impressive junior. He is very responsive, very approachable and not afraid to muck in and get involved with the heavy lifting on cases.’
London Bar > Administrative law and human rights
(Leading Juniors)Ranked: Tier 3Tom Coates – Blackstone Chambers ‘Tom is incredibly bright. He remains calm, even in highly pressurised situations, and consistently delivers high quality advice at pace.’
London Bar > Competition
(Leading Juniors)Ranked: Tier 3Tom Coates – Blackstone Chambers ‘A real rising star, Tom combines intellectual brilliance, crisp advocacy, and strategic and tactical awareness beyond his year of call. He has impeccable judgement in a way that is innate and manages to convey clear and short answers to the most difficult issues in the case.’
Blackstone Chambers offers ‘great strength in depth, at both silk and junior level’ for competition work, operating at the forefront of regulatory and private damages actions in the UK; as well as a recognised reputation for international expertise, representing governments, regulators, defendants and claimants across multiple jurisdictions. Acting under temporary admission to the Hong Kong Bar, Competition Commission of Hong Kong v W Hing Construction, James Segan KC represented the Commission in the first case heard in the that forum about pecuniary penalties for contravention of that jurisdiction’s competition law. In two significant judgments handed down by the CAT, Brian Kennelly KC and Paul Luckhurst represented UBS in a case regarding applications for opt-out collective proceedings under 47B of the Competition Act; while Monica Carss-Frisk KC, Jessica Boyd KC, Isabel Buchanan and Tom Coates appeared in CityFibre Limited v Ofcom, with the tribunal dismissing CityFibre’s appeal under section 192 of the Communications Act 2003.
London Bar > Energy
(Leading Juniors)Ranked: Tier 4Tom Coates –Blackstone Chambers ‘The interface between commercial practices and some areas of regulation are not well understood in the energy sector, but Tom gets it and provides well-reasoned, pragmatic advice.’