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Mr Julian Blake

0207 632 8500 [email protected]

Position

Barrister acting in a wide range of public law, media and information law and commercial law fields. Recent cases include: Gubarev & Others v Buzzfeed [2018] EWHC 512 (QB) (letter of request relating to the Donald Trump Dossier); Bank Mellat v HM Treasury [2015] EWCA Civ 1052, [2016] EWCA Civ 452 (sanctions/financial restrictions on an Iranian bank); Rahmatullah (No 2) v Ministry of Defence, Mohamed v Ministry of Defence [2017] UKSC 1, [2017] 2 WLR 287 (Crown Act of State); Al Waheed v Ministry of Defence, Mohammed v Ministry of Defence [2017] UKSC 2, [2017] 2 WLR 327 (detention in Iraq and Afghanistan); and The Grenfell Tower Inquiry (statutory inquiry).

Career

Called 2006. Member of 6 King’s Bench Walk (Chambers of David Perry QC) until 2015. Joined 11 King’s Bench Walk in 2015. Appointed junior counsel to the Crown (B Panel). Has appeared in courts and tribunals at all levels up the Supreme Court. Author, EU Law in Criminal Practice, OUP (2013). Practitioner Editor, Blackstone’s Criminal Practice, OUP (2015). Contributor, Miller on Contempt, OUP (2017).

Education

Sidney Sussex College, University of Cambridge (MA). Yale University, USA (Fox International Fellow). Astbury Scholarship and Lloyd Jacob Memorial Prize, Middle Temple.