Brick Court Chambers

Brick Court Chambers is one of the leading sets of barristers chambers in the UK.

Heads of chambers: Mark Howard KC, Helen Davies KC
Senior clerks: Tony Burgess, Paul Dennison
Tenants: 104

The set: There are over 100 members who practise full-time, including 50 KCs. Chambers specialises in commercial, competition, international/EU and public law, maintaining a strong reputation in all areas.

Types of work undertaken:  Commercial work includes all aspects of international trade, finance and commerce, with particular emphasis on banking, insurance, reinsurance, shipping and City work, and on private international law. Members of chambers also specialise in fields as diverse as professional negligence, media and entertainment law, defamation, takeovers and mergers, employment law, sports law and public international law. The majority of chambers work consists of High Court litigation and commercial arbitrations, together with appeals to the Court of Appeal, Supreme Court, Privy Council and associated advisory work. Junior members of chambers also undertake more varied common law work in the County Court and in employment tribunals.

Brick Court Chambers has an outstanding team of EU lawyers who are specialists in all aspects of EU and competition litigation. EU law practitioners appear in the full range of English courts and tribunals, before the CMA and Competition Appeals Tribunal, as well as in the Court of Justice and General Court in Luxembourg and a wide range of other international courts and arbitral tribunals. Members of chambers have considerable expertise in human rights and in commercial and regulatory judicial review, a field which enables chambers to combine its strengths in public, commercial and EU law.

Members of Brick Court Chambers are clearly recognised as leaders in their fields evidenced by their presence in the most important and high-profile cases within those fields.  Members of chambers have been involved in the following recent key cases: TGTL v CATS; Sharp and ors v Blank and ors (HBOS); KeyMed Ltd v Hillman and Woodford; Avonwick Holdings Limited v Azitio Holdings Limited and ors; The Federal Republic of Nigeria v JP Morgan Chase; AssetCo Plc v Grant Thornton UK; Manchester Building Society v Grant Thornton UK; Trucks damages litigation (individual and collective proceedings); FX damages litigation; Sainsbury’s Supermarkets Limited v Visa and ors/Mastercard and ors; CMA v Flynn Pharma Limited and Pfizer; Micula and others v Romania; Miller v Prime Minister/Cherry and others v Advocate General for Scotland.

Door tenants: Phillips, Lord (1962), Hoffmann, Lord (1964), Hope, Lord (1965),  Clarke, Sir Christopher (1969), Aikens, Sir Richard (1973), Simon, Sir Peregrine (1974), Popplewell, Sir Oliver (1951), Barling, Sir Gerald (1972), Walker, Sir Paul (1979), Chambers KC, HH Nicholas (1966),  Forwood KC, Sir Nicholas (1970), Ma, the Hon Geoffrey (1978), Kentridge KC, Sir Sydney (1977), Webb KC, Robert (1971), Thorley KC, Simon (1972), Gordon KC, Richard (1972), Cran KC, Mark (1973), Wolffe KC, James (1992), Sutton, Alastair (1972), Muchlinski, Prof Peter (1981), Andenas KC (Hon), Dr Mads (1986), Sharp, Geoff (1999), Jones, Oliver (2009), McCorquodale, Prof Robert (2011).