Gerry Facenna KC

Judicial Review, Data Protection, EU, Competition.

Gerry has a broad commercial and public law practice, advising and litigating across a range of regulatory, administrative and EU law matters.

In demand for his cross-sector expertise and strengths in written and oral advocacy, Gerry has led cases at every level of the UK courts, including the Court of Appeal and Supreme Court, specialist tribunals including the Competition Appeal Tribunal, Investigatory Powers Tribunal and Information Rights Tribunal, and has acted in more than fifty cases before the Court of Justice of the European Union.

Called to the Bar of England & Wales (2001, QC 2016); Scotland (2006) and Ireland (2018). Prior to QC appointment was a member of the Attorney-General’s ‘A’ Panel of counsel.

Publications

Gerry is a contributing author to the leading practitioner text Information Rights: Law and Practice (Hart, 2014, new edition forthcoming 2018); Halsbury’s Laws of England: Rights and Freedoms (LexisNexis, 2013); EU Competition Law: Procedures and Remedies (OUP, 2006); The Law of State Aid in the European Union (OUP, 2004); and The Law of the European Union Encyclopaedia (OUP, 2003). He has also contributed a number of articles to the European Human Rights Law Review, De Voil’s, PLC’s Practice Notes on Freedom of Information and Data Protection; the Discrimination Law Association Briefing, and the Competition Law Journal.

French, Italian.

He is on the Executive Committee of the Bar European Group and sat on the Executive Committee of the Human Rights Lawyers Association between 2003 and 2012.

Clare College, Cambridge (1996 BA); University of Edinburgh (1998 LLB with distinction).