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Antonia Fitzpatrick

Antonia Fitzpatrick

Position

Antonia joined Chambers as a tenant in October 2021 and is developing a busy practice spanning all of Chambers’ principal areas of expertise.

Recent highlights include being instructed as junior counsel: for Ryder, a claimant in the Trucks cartel litigation; for a number of retailers in claims against Visa and Mastercard in the Interchange Fees litigation; for Siemens in its challenge to the HS2 rolling-stock procurement; and for the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, defending Kellogg’s challenge to the Government’s regulations restricting the promotion of less healthy food and drink products.

She has been instructed and appeared as sole counsel in the County Court in relation to commercial matters.

Antonia is co-author of the Competition Law chapter of Tech London Advocates/the Law Society’s ‘Blockchain Legal & Regulatory Guidance’ (Second Edition).

Career

Before pupillage, Antonia worked as a paralegal for Ofsted, assisting with the preparation of investigations in the Independent Inquiry into Child Sexual Abuse (IICSA). She was also a director of the School Exclusion Project, which provides pro bono representation to the parents of children permanently excluded from state schools.

Prior to coming to the Bar, Antonia was a Junior Research Fellow and Lecturer in History at St. John’s College, University of Oxford, where she wrote a book on medieval history.

Languages

French (working knowledge)

Education

BPTC, City Law School (Outstanding). GDL, City Law School (Distinction). PhD (Medieval History), University College London. MA (Medieval Studies), University College London (Distinction, top of year). BA (Hons) History, Wadham College, University of Oxford (First Class).

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