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EU Law

What our barristers offer

39 Essex Chambers offers leading and junior barristers with noted expertise across the full spectrum of EU law, in domestic legal settings and internationally. Expertise lies in both commercial and public sectors – including public procurement, state aid, competition law, VAT, financial services, freedom of establishment, sanctions, energy, telecommunications, environmental law, EU trade and investment law (including in arbitration proceedings), as well as all areas of EU social policy (citizenship, immigration and asylum, European Charter of Fundamental Rights) and EU constitutional law. Our established international footing makes 39 Essex Chambers ideally placed to navigate the evolving dynamics between domestic, EU and international law.

Who members act for

Drawing on sector specific knowledge across all areas of commercial and public law as well as in international arbitration, our barristers advise on and litigate EU law issues for corporates and multinationals, UK regulators (including the OFT, CMA), domestic public sector bodies – including central and local government, EU institutions (including the European Commission, the European Court of Auditors), Member States’ governments, NGOs, charities, and individuals, including high net worth individuals.

Jurisdictions covered

Our barristers appear before domestic, European and international courts and specialist tribunals (including the Competition Appeal Tribunal, the VAT Tribunal) as well as the domestic courts of other EU and non-EU states – where EU law issues arise. Our expertise includes addressing EU law points as they arise before international arbitral bodies.

Expertise

Members have expertise in the following areas:

Customs
Trade Agreements
Sanctions
Competition Law (in front of the CMA, the CAT, the European Commission and other regulators)
Energy (particularly nuclear power, gas and electricity regulation)
Environmental Law
Public Procurement
State Aid
Postal Services
Competition
Financial Services
Fundamental Rights (including the European Charter of Fundamental Rights)
Social Security
Tax (direct and indirect)
Transport
Telecommunications
EU law in arbitration proceedings

Additional expertise

Members of Chambers include:

the Chairman of the Competition Appeal Tribunal.
a lecturer at King’s College London – where her module forms part of the Centre for European Law’s European Law LLM and former trainee at the European Commission.
a former Referendaire (legal secretary) at the Court of Justice of the European Union, Luxembourg and former lecturer in European Law at Lady Margaret Hall, Oxford University.
Professors Paul Craig, David Feldman and Andrea Biondi (academic associate members).
Authors of EC Customs Law (OUP, 2nd ed, 2008), Accidents Abroad: International Personal Injury claims (Sweet & Maxwell, 2^nd edition forthcoming).
Regular contributors to EU law texts and journals – including State Aid, Tax and Abuse of Law in Prohibition of Abuse of Law: A New General Principle of EU Law? (General Editor, Hart Publishing, 2011), Butterworths’ Competition Law Service, , British Tax Review, Legal Remedies in European Tax Law, Modern Law Review, Judicial Review.