Daniel Goldblatt is ranked as a Rising Star (Legal 500, 2025) and Up and Coming (Chambers & Partners, 2025). He has a broad and busy practice ranging from multiparty Commercial Court disputes to constitutional law appeals in the Privy Council.
Daniel has particular experience in contract and trust disputes, civil fraud, insolvency, aviation and travel law, and public and constitutional law. He is also developing a practice in international arbitration and mediation.
Daniel is frequently instructed as sole counsel in trials and interlocutory hearings and has acted as part of counsel teams in the High Court, Court of Appeal, and the Privy Council.
The directories have described him as:
“Daniel is hard-working, very perceptive and able to throw himself into dealing with difficult issues including those of complexity, outside the usual comfort zone of a barrister of his call. An invaluable member of the team.” (Legal 500, 2025)
Recent experience includes:
- Chin v Hart & Ors (ongoing) – acting on behalf of the Attorney General as the interested party in a Privy Council appeal concerning a challenge to the Commission of Enquiry set up to investigate a multi-million dollar housing project in Trinidad & Tobago (with Daniel Feetham KC)
- Attorney General of Trinidad and Tobago v Tobago House of Assembly [2025] UKPC 8 – appeal concerning the power of a devolved legislature to enter into build, own, lease, transfer (BOLT) private finance initiatives without approval or oversight from central government (with Howard Stevens KC).
- Ortiz-Patino v MGI Golf and Leisure Opportunities Fund Ltd [2024] EWCA Civ 862– appeal to the Court of Appeal in a multi-million euro dispute over a profit share agreement in the Valderrama luxury golf course involving issues of contractual interpretation and the application of ‘the presumption of similarity’ to Swiss law (with Peter Knox KC).
- Republic of Mozambique v Credit Suisse International & Ors [2024] EWHC 1957 (Comm) – acting on behalf of members of the Credit Suisse Deal Team in a multi-billion dollar civil fraud claim concerning the enforceability of state guarantees (described by The Lawyer as one of the top 20 cases of 2023) (with, amongst others, Peter Knox KC, Rupert Butler, and Charlotte Pope-Williams)
- Price & Ors v Flictcraft Limited & Ors [2024] EWCA Civ 136 – joined appeals in the Court of Appeal involving issues of contractual interpretation, interpretation of the Patents Act 1977 and costs (with Peter Knox KC).
Before gaining tenancy at 3 Hare Court, Daniel read for a joint degree in International Relations and Modern History at St Andrews, followed by an accelerated law degree at St Edmund Hall, Oxford. He was called to the Bar as a Prince of Wales Scholar of Gray’s Inn.
Daniel is a CEDR-Accredited and CMC Registered Mediator.
