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Anneli Howard KC KC
Position
Anneli Howard is top-ranked by the directories in six different disciplines: Competition, EU law, Consumer law/Product Liability, Public Administrative law, Aviation and Telecommunications. In 2018 Anneli won The Legal 500 award for EU/Competition Junior of the Year and was one of the Lawyer’s “Hot 100” in 2016. From 2005 to 2021, Anneli was a member of the AG Panels for Public Administrative law and WTO/International Trade.
A former Référendaire at the European Court of Justice, she has expert insight of the interaction between EU, ECHR, international trade and domestic law across a range of sectors, including telecoms, pharmaceuticals, health and social care, aviation, rail transport, energy, utilities and other regulated industries. She has a busy practice specialising in competition and consumer enforcement and damages litigation, including group, representative and class actions. She is also a recognised Thought Leader on Brexit and International Trade issues. Since 2012 she has been appointed as Standing Counsel for the Civil Aviation Authority, advising on competition law and economic regulation. She performs a similar “policy-proofing” role for other Government Departments as a member of the Attorney General’s A Panel for Public/Administrative Law and its Public International Law Panel. She acts in high profile judicial review proceedings in commercial regulatory sectors.
Anneli is “a client’s dream counsel – a real class act.” She is recognised for her legal acumen: clients note her “strong intellect, “very good technical knowledge” and “methodical and alert competition assistance”. They have credited her as a “brilliantly strategic thinker” and an “accomplished courtroom performer” who is “amazingly clear“.
More than just a lawyer, Anneli is a hands-on team player who pulls more than her weight in achieving her clients’ objectives. She is “responsive, hardworking and practical” and “listens to what you want to achieve and goes about it in an incredibly time-responsive manner”.
Significant clients include BT Openreach, Inmarsat, HTC, CAA, CMA, FCA, Bank of England, Treasury, Ofgem, ORR, DFT, BEIS, DEXEU, Cabinet Office, DCMS, DHSC, MHRA, Hausfeld, Mishcon, Macfarlanes, Jones Day, Hogan Lovells, Linklaters and Freshfields.
Career
Solicitor Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer 1996-2000; referendaire to Judge David Edward at European Court of Justice 2000-03; called to the Bar 2002; barrister Monckton Chambers 2003 to date. Co-author of Lasek, Millet and Howard, ‘Judicial Control in the EU’, ‘Smith and Ward on UK Competition Litigation’, ‘Bellamy & Child on EC Competition Law’ and Consultant Editor of ‘Sanders and O’Neill on OFT procedure – the Modernised Regime’.
Languages
French, Italian, Spanish, German.
Memberships
- Vice Chair of the Bar Council European Law Committee
- Standing Committee Bar European Group
- Standing Committee UK Association for European Law (UKAEL and FIDE)
- Standing Committee of the Competition Law Forum
- Founding member and Standing Committee of the Junior Competition Network
- Committee Member of the Bar Council Brexit Working Group and Vice Chair of the EU Law Group Standing Committee for UK Legal Future
- European Circuit
- UK Human Rights Law Association
- COMBAR
- ALBA – Member of Equality & Diversity Committee
- Union des avocats Europeens
- UK State Aid Law Association
Education
Cheltenham Ladies’ College; St Edmund Hall, Oxford (1994 BA Jurisprudence 1st class; 1995 BCL 2(1)); King’s College, London (Pg Dip in EC Law with merit).
Leisure
Gymnastics, skiing, hill-walking, languages, travel.
Lawyer Rankings
London Bar > Aviation and Travel
(Leading Silks)Ranked: Tier 3Anneli Howard KC – Monckton Chambers ‘Anneli is strong on the interface between regulatory and competition law. Very hardworking and tries very hard to make herself available. Turns things around very quickly. Very focused on client’s commercial position. Great team player.’
London Bar > Group litigation
(Leading Silks)Ranked: Tier 3London Bar > Competition
(Leading Silks)Ranked: Tier 3Anneli Howard KC – Monckton Chambers ‘Anneli is rightfully considered one of the top silks at the competition Bar. She is a phenomenal advocate who understands competition law better than anyone, and is one of the hardest working and most charming silks to work with.’
‘A leading competition law set with superior skills through all levels of seniority’, Monckton Chambers operates at the forefront of high profile competition cases, including antitrust, class actions and public undertakings. Anneli Howard KC is ‘considered one of the top silks at the competition Bar’ and has successfully represented Foundem against tech giant Google in multiple CMCs. George Peretz KC successfully acted on behalf of the Civil Aviation Authority concerning appeals regarding Heathrow Airport’s charges to airlines, while Josh Holmes KC defends Google in a £7bn collective action alleging anti-competitive practices in relation to mobile searches. In January 2024, Daniel Beard KC led Daisy Mackersie before the CAT in Le Patourel v BT, the first opt-out class action to reach trial and having potentially significant implications for the UK collective proceedings regime. Ronit Kreisberger KC acts for the claimant in Cabo v MGA, a complex abuse of dominance and collusion claim which raises difficult questions at the intersection of competition and IP law.
London Bar > European Union relations
(Leading Silks)Ranked: Tier 3Anneli Howard KC – Monckton Chambers ‘Anneli is a phenomenal advocate and one of the hardest working and most charming silks to work with.’
London Bar > Public procurement
(Leading Silks)Ranked: Tier 2Anneli Howard KC – Monckton Chambers ‘Anneli is a team player and fearless advocate.’
London Bar > Telecoms Regulation
(Leading Silks)Ranked: Tier 1Anneli Howard KC – Monckton Chambers ‘A team player with a strong sense of independence.’
Monckton Chambers has a track record of acting for the UK’s leading telecoms providers in regulatory disputes concerning network infrastructure and consumer services. Anneli Howard KC represented the Home Office in the CMA’s market investigation reference regarding the Airwave emergency communications network, while Robert Palmer KC is representing Gibtelecom in litigation surrounding access to the data centres used to house Gibraltar’s online gambling industry.