Region Area

Barristers

Katherine Apps KC

Katherine Apps KC

Work Department

Equality, public/administrative, human rights, civil liberties, employment, trade unions, European, regulatory, disciplinary, medical, civil litigation, commercial.

Position

Barrister

Career

Call 2006.  Silk 2023. Previously Treasury A Panel. EHRC B Panel. MA (Hons) Cantab. LLM Harvard Law School. Bedingfield Scholar (Grays Inn). Appointed to Sport Resolution Panel: safeguarding, integrity, discrimination, commercial disputes, National Anti-Doping Panel, Premier League Judicial Panel.

Katherine’s practice sits at the cutting edge where private and public law meet and where international standards (including EU law) influence the interpretation of statutory schemes and development of the common law.  Katherine has particular expertise in equality law, having appeared in the CJEU, Supreme Court and Court of Appeal, human rights (Articles 2,3,4,5, 6, 8, 9, 10, 11, 14, A1P1), education, regulatory law, procurement and publicly funded contracts, good faith standards in contract law, professional discipline, employment, pensions, sport and tax.

Katherine’s full cv can be viewed at: https://www.39essex.com/profile/katherine-apps-kc

Memberships

ELBA, ALBA, BEG, ARDL, ELAAS

Education

LL.M Harvard Law School. MA (Hons) Law Cantab, First Class. BVC (Outstanding)

Mentions

London Bar

Administrative law and human rights

UNKNOWN1
Katherine Apps KC –39 Essex Chambers 'Katherine has encyclopaedic knowledge. She is a confident advocate and her advice is always solid.'
London Bar

Education

UNKNOWN1
Katherine Apps KC - 39 Essex Chambers
London Bar

Employment

UNKNOWN1
Katherine Apps KC – 39 Essex Chambers
London Bar

European Union law

UNKNOWN1
Katherine Apps KC – 39 Essex Chambers 'She is fantastically bright, extremely responsive and well-prepared.'
London Bar

Immigration (including business immigration)

UNKNOWN1
Katherine Apps KC – 39 Essex Chambers ‘Katherine is extremely responsive and well-prepared. She has every detail of a case at her fingertips, and can persuasively and masterfully deploy it with ease.‘
London Bar

Pensions

UNKNOWN1
Katherine Apps KC –39 Essex Chambers 'Very thorough and she does master the detail, but also has the wider picture clearly in mind. She is very good.'
London Bar

Sport

UNKNOWN1
Katherine Apps KC – 39 Essex Chambers ‘A real strength and knowledge in intricate sporting disputes, in particular safeguarding.’