Falcon Chambers is noted as ‘the go-to set for telecoms work’. Property-related telecoms work is the specialist area of Stephanie Tozer KC whose recent cases include acting for BT in On Tower Plc v British Telecommunications plc on appeal wherein BT attempted to terminate its lease with On Tower and terminate Electronic Communications Code agreements in order to redevelop a BT telephone exchange site on which On Tower has installed telecoms equipment; ultimately it was ruled at Tribunal and reinforced at appeal that the sole purpose of the building was not to house ECA, the building was “land” rather than ECA itself, so the lease was a Code agreement and the termination mechanism in Part 5 of the Code had to be followed. Oliver Radley-Gardner KC’s work also includes significant Code-related disputes, such as Vodafone v APW & Icon. Fern Schofield is considered ‘excellent’, and Wayne Clark KC was appointed silk in March 2025.
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Profile
Position
Barrister specialising in property litigation, real property, landlord and tenant, commercial property.
Career
- Called 2018
- Bar Professional Training Course, City Law School, London (Very Competent)
- Jarman Advocacy Prize, Inner Temple, 2019 (highest pupil advocacy prize)
- BPTC Exhibition Award, Inner Temple, 2017
- Paul Methven Scholarship, Inner Temple, 2017
- GDL Exhibition Award, Inner Temple, 2016
- Creighton Memorial Prize, Newnham College, 2016 (outstanding dissertation)
- Margaret Gardner Prize, Newnham College, 2016 (academic excellence)
- Alastair Graham Scholarship, Alton College, 2010
Languages
German
Education
- BA Modern & Medieval Languages (German and French), Newnham College, University of Cambridge – First class
- Graduate Diploma in Law, City University of London – Distinction
- LLM in Professional Legal Practice, City University of London - Merit
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- 'Johnathan Stannard and John Davitt are always happy to help, and will turn round queries very quickly.'
- 'John Davitt and Johnathan Stannard are excellent to work with.'
- 'Excellent strength-in-depth and good clerking and outreach.'
- 'The clerks are friendly and approachable.'
- 'My go-to telecoms set with expertise across silks and juniors.'
- 'Falcon has a number of KCs and juniors, all of whom are the leaders in this area of work.'
- 'Falcon are always the go-to chambers - they are the best around, so you know you can trust them to do a great job.'
- 'Go-to set for telecoms work - the majority of specialist telecoms litigation barristers are at Falcon.'