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Curriculum Vitae
Summary
All specialist areas
Competition Law and Utilities Regulation
European Community Law
Public & Administrative Law and Human Rights
Sports Law
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Daniel Beard

MA (Hons) Cambridge (First Class) Bachelor of Civil Law (BCL), Oxford
Call date: 1996

Summary

Daniel Beard is a vastly experienced junior in the fields of Competition, European Community, Human Rights, Public and Administrative, State Aid, Telecommunications law and Utilities Regulation. He is widely regarded as one of the Bar's leading juniors in these areas.

He has appeared in many landmark cases in the European Court of Justice, Court of First Instance, House of Lords, Court of Appeal, High Court and Competition Appeal Tribunal. In addition he has acted in numerous proceedings before the sectoral regulators such as the Competition Commission and Ofgem.

He is standing Counsel to the Office of Fair Trading and a member of the Attorney General's A Panel.

Daniel won 'Junior of the Year', for EU and Competition law at the Chambers Bar Awards 2009. 

Recent and ongoing cases

Competition law and Utilities Regulation

  • Koninkiljke Philips Electronics NV & Others -v- Harvard International Plc [2009] EWHC 1600 (PAT) (Chancery Division - Competition/IP, FRAND)
  • Cooper Tyre & Rubber Company Ltd -v- Shell Chemicals UK Ltd [2009] EWHC 1529 (Comm) (Commercial Court - follow on damages action following EC infringement decision, carbon cartel)
  • Enron Coal Services Ltd -v- EWS Railway (Court of Appeal and CAT - follow on damages, abuse of dominant position)
  • National Grid Plc -v- ABB Ltd & Others [2009] EWHC 1326 (Ch) (Chancery Division - follow on damages action following EC infringement decision, cartel)
  • Tesco Plc -v- Competition Commission [2009] CAT 6 (Competition Appeal Tribunal - challenge to CC report into the Groceries market)
  • Sky and Virgin -v- Secretary of State for Business, Enterprise and Regulatory Reform and Competition Commission [2008] CAT 25 (Competition Appeal Tribunal - challenge to Competition Commission's decision to force the broadcaster to reduce its shareholding in ITV to less than 7.5%)
  • Norton & Others -v- Scottish and Northern Irish NHS (Chancery Division - acting for NHS claiming damages against generic drugs manufacturers involved in cartel)
  • Emerson Electric & others -v- Morgan Crucible & Others [2008] CAT 8 ("Emerson III") (Competition Appeal Tribunal - competition damages action following European Commission infringement decision)
  • E.ON UK Plc -v- GEMA CC02/07 (The first ever appeal to the Competition Commission against an energy code modification decision) 

European Law

  • C-169/06 Northern Foods Plc -v- UK and The Melton Mowbray Pork Pie Association (European Court of Justice - protection of geographical indications and designations of origin for agricultural products and foodstuffs)
  • C-402/07 & C-432/07 Sturgeon & Others -v- Condor Flugdienst Gmbh and Bock and Lepuschitz V Societe Air France Sa (European Court of Justice Cases - acting for the UK Government in references to the ECJ on air passenger compensation)
  • T-181/08 Pye Phyo Tay Za -v- European Commission (Court of First Instance - Challenge to EC sanctions regulations)
  • T-144/02 Eagle -v- European Commission (Court of First Instance - claim against the EC for unlawful discrimination)

Public & Administrative law/Human Rights

  • Crest Nicholson Plc -v- Office of Fair Trading (Administrative Court - Judicial Review of OFT fining policy)
  • Guantanamo Bay Litigation (Queen's Bench Division - damages claim for breach of Human Rights, unlawful detention)
  • ZO (Somalia) -v- Secretary of State for the Home Department [2009] EWCA Civ 442 (Court of Appeal - Asylum seekers, Directives, Right to work, Subsequent applications)
  • Viggers -v- Pensions Appeal Tribunal [2008] EWHC 3144 (Admin) (Administrative Court - Back payments, disabled persons, Pensions Appeal Tribunals, reasons, war pensions)
  • Omar & Min Min -v- Home Secretary [2008] EWHC 1604 (Admin) (Court of Appeal - effect of European Asylum rules on domestic immigration law)
  • Secretary of State -v- The Pensions Appeal Tribunal [2007] EWHC 1451 (Admin) (Administrative Court - time limits to bring Judicial Review proceedings, applicable and delegated legislation)