Chambers of James Goudie KC and Daniel Stilitz KC

Specialist in employment law, public law, commercial law and ADR; recent cases include: Akerman-Livingstone v Aster [2015] UKSC 15; R (PDU) v Boots [2014] EWHC 2930 (admin); Joy v Deutsche Bank [2015]; Smith v Carillion [2015] EWCA Civ 209; R (Islington) v Mayor of London [2013] 4142 (Admin); Hounslow LBC v Powell [2011] 2 WLR 287; Manchester City Council v Pinnock [2010] 3 WLR 1441; Canadian Imperial Bank of Commerce v Beck [2010] EqLR 120; R (Bristol-Meyers Squibb) v NICE [2009] EWHC 2722 (Admin); Liverpool City Council v Doran [2009] 1 WLR 2365; R(A) v Croydon LBC [2009] LGR 24; Kay v United Kingdom (ECHR); R (Servier) v NICE [2009] EWHC 281; R (Gilboy) v Liverpool County Council [2008] LGR 521; R(Doherty) v Birmingham County Council [2008] 3 WLR 636; R (Eisai) v NICE [2008] EWCA Civ 444; Smith v Buckland [2008] 1 WLR 661; Harlow v Artemis [2008] IRLR 629; R (Bradley) Secretary of State for Work and Pensions [2008] 3 WLR 1059; HM Prison Service v Johnson [2007] IRLR 951; Charter plc v City Index Ltd [2008] Ch 313; Price v Leeds City Council [2006] 2 AC 465; Customs & Excise Commissioners v Barclays Bank Plc [2006] 3 WLR 1. 

Called 1992; Lincoln’s Inn; appointed junior counsel to the Crown, A Panel, 2006; QC 2010; contributor ‘Tolley’s Employment Handbook’ (26th Edition, 2012); contributor Butterworths ‘Local Government Law’; editor of Butterworths ‘Local Government Reports’; CEDR-accredited mediator 1997; CEDR-solve mediator since 2002; counsel to inquiry into race discrimination in the CPS 2000-2001. 

Administrative Law Bar Association; Employment Law Bar Association; Industrial Law Society; Employment Lawyers Association; COMBAR. 

William Ellis School; New College, Oxford (1990 BA Hons Philosophy Politics and Economics, 1st); City University (1991 Dip Law, Distinction; 1992 MA).