‘A leading set for competition law, with a number of trusted barristers’, Blackstone Chambers has been prominent in many of the largest and most important regulatory and enforcement cases. ’At the top of the competition Bar’, Brian Kennelly KC has recent experience in major domestic and European damages claims, collective proceedings, merger cases and enforcement matters for major clients in technology and the automotive industry, and Thomas de la Mare KC has led in the Dieselgate litigation concerning a technology suppression cartel. ‘Fantastic and effective’, Kieron Beal KC is regularly seen before the CAT and the GCEU, and acted for the claimants in the highly complex and long-running Umbrella Interchange Fee Claimants vs Visa and MasterCard proceedings. Hanif Mussa KC has been praised for his ’wonderful ability to see through to what matters in a case’, and in the last year led the advocacy for the defendants in Granville Technology Limited & ors. v LD Display Co Ltd & ors., with a successful result ending in claimants receiving less than 2% of their original claim. Jason Pobjoy KC and Naina Patel KC took silk in 2025, and both have rapidly developing competition law practices.
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Barrister specialising in administrative/public law and human rights, including immigration and asylum, prison, housing, education, community care, public international law and the use of international law in domestic proceedings, information rights, competition, EU and regulatory law, employment law (including wrongful/unfair dismissal, race/religion and belief/sex/disability discrimination and TUPE) and commercial law. Full professional career details can be found at www.blackstonechambers.com.
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Called 2005; Inner Temple. KC 2025.
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