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Rhodri Thompson KC KC
Position
Barrister specialising in EU law, UK and EU competition law, public law; recent cases include Ethernet, MasterCard, Tobacco, The Number v OFCOM and BT, Construction, Albion Water v OFWAT; GNER v ORR; Genzyme v OFT; Scottish Milk.
Career
Called 1989; QC 2002; founder member Matrix 2000; practising in Brussels 1990-92, and in London since 1993; chair, Matrix Management Committee 2004-06; contributor, ‘European Community Law of Competition’, 7th ed (Bellamy & Child, Sweet & Maxwell); ‘The Single Market for Pharmaceuticals’ (Butterworths 1994).
Memberships
Bar European Group; UKAEL; Competition Law Association; Joint Chair of Joint Working Party of the Bars and Law Societies of the United Kingdom.
Education
University College, Oxford (MA; BPhil); City University.
Lawyer Rankings
London Bar > Competition
(Leading Silks)Ranked: Tier 2Rhodri Thompson KC –Matrix Chambers ‘Rhodri is exceptionally clever. He is able to grasp complex factual and legal issues quickly and thoroughly and communicate them in a simple and easy to understand manner.’
Members of Matrix Chambers remain continually sought after for complex collective actions before all levels of UK courts. In the first major UK collective action concerning environmental pollution as a breach of competition law, Rhodri Thompson KC and Christopher Brown have been acting for the class representative in Roberts v Severn Trent Water and Ors; with the case raising novel questions of law about whether misleading a regulator and causing higher prices to be charged constitutes an abuse of a dominant position. In Kent v Apple, Nicholas Gibson is representing the CMA as it intervenes in the public interest in the ongoing dispute about loss caused by the tech giant for alleged breaches of EU and UK competition law. Thanks to the set’s criminal practitioners, it is also well-placed to handle matters concerning criminal cartel offences.