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Victoria Wakefield KC KC
Position
Victoria Wakefield KC was called in 2003 and took silk in 2019. Her practice spans a wide range of cases across competition law, EU law, public law, human rights and commercial disputes. She is an advocate who is as comfortable in the Supreme Court as in a fact-heavy trial and has been described by the legal directories as “a star of her generation” (Chambers & Partners 2020).
Career
Call: England and Wales: 2003; Ireland: 2017
Silk: 2019
Languages
French.
Memberships
Member of the Administrative Law Bar Association and of the Bar European Group.
Education
BA Hons Law, Trinity College Cambridge
D.E.S. droit européen, Université Libre de Bruxelles
BVC, Inns of Court School of Law
Lawyer Rankings
London Bar > Group litigation
(Leading Silks)Ranked: Tier 3Victoria Wakefield KC – Brick Court Chambers ‘She is exceptionally smart and hard working. An outstanding advocate who has the ear of the court.’
London Bar > Administrative law and human rights
(Leading Silks)Ranked: Tier 4Victoria Wakefield KC –Brick Court Chambers ‘A superb advocate, who earns and maintains the trust of the court.’
‘Very strong set‘ Brick Court Chambers is home to ‘a full range of highly talented counsel‘ in the public law arena. The ‘tenacious‘ Paul Bowen KC has ‘impressive knowledge of the law of human rights‘, and James McClelland KC‘s ‘tactical advice is spot on‘. Victoria Wakefield KC represented the Church Commissioners for England before the Privy Council in All Saints Spring Park Parochial Church Council v Church Commissioners for England, an appeal concerning the issue of whether the Church could be considered as a public authority for Human Rights Act matters. Malcolm Birdling is ‘a star of the administrative Bar‘; he and Jagoda Klimowicz successfully represented the claimants in R (L J Fairburn & Son and others) v Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, a challenge to the legality of the policy of compensation payable to farmers for the cull of poultry to curb avian influenza, which was alleged to be in violation of Article 1 Protocol 1 rights. Yaaser Vanderman joined the team in July 2024.
London Bar > Data protection
(Leading Silks)Ranked: Tier 2Victoria Wakefield KC – Brick Court Chambers ‘Victoria is an all-round star of the data protection Bar. She has huge expertise in the underlying legal framework and is able to draw on her wide expertise in other areas of law to augment her data protection advocacy. Her written submissions are always crystal clear and extremely powerful.’
London Bar > Competition
(Leading Silks)Ranked: Tier 3Victoria Wakefield KC –Brick Court Chambers ‘Victoria is a go-to KC for competition work. She combines a razor-sharp intellect with an easy charm and fantastic client-handling skills. She is a polished advocate who will outclass many more senior silks.’
Brick Court Chambers is ‘the go-to set for competition litigators, with both strength and depth across all levels’. Competition heavyweights Helen Davies KC and Daniel Jowell KC appear on opposite sides of the cable maker cartel case Spottiswoode v Nexans, with the major consumer collective action seeking over £300m in damages for UK electricity purchasers. In R (Volkswagen) v CMA, Marie Demetriou KC successfully acted for the regulator in a landmark case concerning the extraterritorial scope of its investigatory powers under the Competition Act 1998. Sarah Abram KC acted on behalf of BMW on the same matter and persuaded the CAT that the CMA lacked the power to require disclosure outside of the UK, before the regulator’s appeal was allowed by the Court of Appeal; prompting the manufacturer to seek permission to appeal to the Supreme Court. Victoria Wakefield KC is set to represent the defendant in Cabo Concepts Limited v MGA Entertainment, with the standalone abuse of dominance claim set for trial in late 2024.
London Bar > European Union relations
(Leading Silks)Ranked: Tier 2Victoria Wakefield KC – Brick Court Chambers ‘Victoria is very bright, articulates points with great clarity, and is very astute. She understands clients’ commercial objectives and how best to achieve those goals.’
London Bar > Sport
(Leading Silks)Ranked: Tier 3Victoria Wakefield KC – Brick Court Chambers ‘Victoria is an expert and experienced competition lawyer and she has intimate knowledge of how competition law applies in the sports sector. Since competition law, and the nuances of how it interacts with sport, are increasingly determinative of sports disputes, this is an essential knowledge to have as a sports lawyer. Victoria combines this expertise with great advocacy and an ease of manner that is extremely effective.’