EU LAW
Chambers Bar Awards 2010 Winner - Set of the Year for Competition/EU
"Monckton Chambers’ ‘breadth and depth of talent’ and ‘responsiveness’ continues to mark it out as many solicitors’ favoured set. Its dedication to this discipline has enabled it to assemble a mighty roster of leading barristers."
Legal 500
Monckton Chambers is recognised as a pre-eminent set in all areas of EU Law. Members regularly advise and litigate on behalf of private sector clients, the UK and government departments, local authorities, NGOs, the EU institutions and non-UK clients including other Member States, and have acted in many of the leading EU law cases.
We can offer specialists at every level of seniority, from leading QCs with decades of experience to junior tenants, several of whom have worked within the European Court of Justice (ECJ) and other EU institutions. We are able to provide teams of barristers to suit every type of EU law case.
Specific areas of expertise include (please click on the links for details):
- Agriculture, Food, Fisheries and Biosciences
- Anti-Dumping and Trade Protection Measures
- Broadcasting, Entertainment and Media
- Commercial Agents
- Common Foreign and Security Policy
- Competition Law
- Customs Duties and Commercial Policy Measures
- Direct and Indirect Taxes
- Employment Law
- Energy
- Environmental Law
- Euratom Treaty
- European Economic Area Agreement (EEA) and European Free Trade Association (EFTA)
- Financial Services
- Free Movement (Goods, Persons, Capital, Services and Rights of Establishment)
- Fundamental Rights
- Public Procurement
- Social Policy, including Social Security
- Sports Law
- State Aid
- Telecommunications Law
- Transport
We have long-standing experience in navigating cases through the domestic courts and the Community Courts, including in challenges to domestic and EU legislation. Members of Monckton Chambers appear regularly before the Community Courts, both in references for preliminary rulings and in direct actions. Many such cases involve our barristers acting in teams or representing more than one party. Members have acted in more EU law cases than can be readily listed here. Notable examples include (please click on the links for details):
- R (on the application of Low) v Secretary of State for the Home Department (Court of Appeal)
- Mobilx Ltd (In Administration) & Others v HMRC (Court of Appeal)
- Oxley Thread v Commission (General Court)
- BSkyB Plc, Virgin Media Inc v Competition Commission, Secretary of State for Business Enterprise and Regulatory Reform (Court of Appeal)
- C-406/08 Uniplex (European Court of Justice)
- IB v the Queen (Court of Appeal)
- Veolia ES Nottinghamshire Ltd v Nottinghamshire County Council (High Court)
- Hutchison 3G UK Limited v The Office of Communications (Court of Appeal)
- Bouygues and Bouygues Telecom v European Commission (European Court of Justice)
- Byrne v Motor Insurers Bureau and Secretary of State for Transport (Court of Appeal)
- Sempra Metals (Metallgesellschaft) v Her Majesty's Revenue and Customs (House of Lords)
- Osman Ocalan, on behalf of the Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) v Council of the European Union (European Court of Justice)
- R v Secretary of State for Health ex p Imperial Tobacco (House of Lords and European Court of Justice) and R (BAT and Imperial Tobacco) (European Court of Justice)
- City of Sunderland v Thoburn (Divisional Court and House of Lords)
- Inntrepreneur Pub Company and others v Crehan (House of Lords)
- Factortame Ltd v United Kingdom (House of Lords and European Court of Justice)
- Marks and Spencer (European Court of Justice)
- Conde Nast/Fleming (House of Lords)
PUBLICATIONS
Members of Monckton Chambers lecture and write widely on the topic of EU Law. Chambers numbers amongst its members visiting professors, part-time lecturers and authors of leading textbooks, including authors, editors and contributors to: Bellamy and Child, The European Courts and Competition titles of Atkin's Court Forms; Bellamy and Child, European Community Law of Competition (Gen. Ed.: P. Roth QC); Judicial Control in the EU, Lasok & Millett; Making Community Law, Moser & Sawyer; Competition Litigation in the UK, Ward & Smith; Takeovers and Mergers, Weinberg & Blank.
Members of Monckton Chambers write frequent articles on EU Law and are/have been on the editorial boards of: The European Law Reports; The Common Market Law Reports; The UK Competition Law Reports; The European Advocate.
PROFESSIONAL ORGANISATIONS
Members are/have been on the following committees (often chairing): The United Kingdom Association of European Law; The Bar European Group; The Competition Law Association; The Scientific Committee of the EU's Fundamental Rights Agency.
20/1/2012 Eurostar is not a utility, rules High Court
19/1/2012 Lecture to mark the contribution of Sir Jeremy Lever KCMG QC to European Law
17/1/2012 Othman (Abu Qatada) v United Kingdom (8139/09)
16/1/2012 JBW Ltd v Ministry of Justice [2012] EWCA Civ 8
5/1/2012 R(Imperial Tobacco, BAT, Philip Morris and Gallaher) v Secretary of State for Health
10/2/2012 VAT and Indirect Tax Webinar: Place of supply of goods and services
7/2/2012 Annual Conference on International Sports Law
Success on Strike-Out Application Gives “Photo-Me” Passport to Trial
Ryanair Holdings plc v Office of Fair Trading (Aer Lingus Group plc intervening)

