Monckton Chambers

‘Rightly regarded as one of the leading sets in EU relations’, members of Monckton Chambers are regularly instructed on leading cases across an array of UK and European courts on behalf of major clients in the public and private sectors. A ’superb advocate, with a clear focus’, Daniel Beard KC won leading for the appellants in Illumina v Commission in the Grand Chamber of the CJEU, a judgement of profound significance to the scope of the EU Commission’s powers regarding merger control, and Ian Rogers KC led for the UK Government vs the European Commission in a case concerning an allegation of the fraudulent evaluation of Chinese textiles worth billions of Euros. Anneli Howard KC led in the High Court for Nissan on the highly complex Dieselgate proceedings, with a major judgement related to how retained EU law did not require national courts faced with civil claims based to defer to findings by regulatory bodies in other EU states, and the ‘very dependable’ Philip Moser KC is a specialist on post-EU legislation, recently leading for the claimants in Umbrella Interchange vs Visa and Mastercard, which concerned if UK courts can bound by post-Brexit CJEU judgements in competition claims dating pre-exit. Jack Williams represents major clients in technology in European courts, with a recent case on behalf of Google at the General Court resulting in the annulment of a €1.5bn fine.