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Victoria Wakefield KC

Victoria Wakefield 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

Mentions

London Bar

Competition

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Victoria 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.’
London Bar

Data protection

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Victoria 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

European Union relations

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Victoria 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

Group litigation

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Victoria Wakefield KC – Brick Court Chambers 'She is exceptionally smart and hard working.  An outstanding advocate who has the ear of the court.'
London Bar

Sport

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Victoria 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.'