‘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.
Legal 500 Editorial commentary
- Profile
Mentions
Profile
Work Department
Competition law, Procurement law, Public law, EU law, Commercial law
Position
Jack has particular expertise in respect of the regulation of digital markets. For instance, his clients include Google, Meta, Intel, and Samsung, whilst he has acted against Apple and BT. Recent career highlights include securing two of the largest fine annulments in competition law history, namely (i) the €1 billion fine imposed on Intel in its long-running abuse of dominance case, and (ii) the €1.5 billion fine imposed on Google in respect of its AdSense advertising services in another landmark abuse of dominance case. He is also amongst the most active counsel in UK competition law collective proceedings (both for class representatives and defendants), including acting in landmark cases such as Le Patourel v BT and Merricks v Mastercard.
In addition to England and Wales, Jack is called to the Bars of Ireland and Northern Ireland (thus retaining his rights of audience before EU courts and legal professional privilege to advise on EU law). He is a graduate from the University of Oxford (Hertford College) with a Distinction in the BCL Masters in Law (ranked 2nd in the year) and from the University of Cambridge (St Catharine’s College) with a First Class Undergraduate Degree in Law. Jack was the recipient of Gray’s Inn’s top scholarships for Bar School and Pupillage.
Career
Called: 2015 (England & Wales) | 2020 (Ireland) | 2020 (Northern Ireland)
Education
MA(Cantab) – First Class Undergraduate Degree in Law
BCL (Oxon) – Distinction Masters Degree in Law
BPTC (BPP) – Outstanding
Content supplied by Monckton Chambers
Testimonials
Collated independently by Legal 500 research team.
- 'The Monckton clerks are always responsive and willing to go the extra mile to find the barrister that is right.'
- 'The clerks service is excellent. Steve Duffett is especially helpful.'
- Steve Duffett and John Keegan are always super helpful.'
- 'Steven Duffett is helpful and responsive.'
- 'Monckton Chambers offer a wide range of technical, capable lawyers. The clerks are to a personable, approachable and commercial, and offer a supportive service to both counsel and their instructing solicitors.'
- 'Monckton Chambers has an extensive range of very knowledgeable barristers in the EU law field.'
- 'Monckton Chambers is rightly regarded as one of the leading sets in EU relations.'
- 'Monckton are one of the most commercial, entrepreneurial sets of chambers. Counsel are always available no matter how busy they are.'