Monckton Chambers

Julian Gregory is a competition and regulatory law specialist who is consistently ranked by the directories as a leading senior junior in his field.  He is praised by clients for being “extremely good at grasping highly technical and complex legal issues”, communicating them with “great clarity of thought and expression” and identifying “hidden strategic opportunities”.  He is a “robust advocate and clear drafter” who appears before regulators, the CAT, the High Court and appellate courts.

Julian is instructed by a wide range of bodies, from global multinationals to small local businesses and government bodies.  He works with clients to understand their objectives and how their organizations operate, and is credited with having “great commercial awareness”.  The directories say “he is very approachable and combines a down-to-earth attitude with strong intellectual ability”.

Julian frequently operates as part of a large team and can help solicitors to manage major, long-running cases.  He enjoys working closely with economists: clients say he has a “superb understanding of economics” and he has post-graduate training in econometrics, often used in merger analysis and damages models.  He looks to express technical arguments as simply as possible so that they can be understood easily by non-expert judges.

He has particular experience of opt-out collective proceedings (he is currently involved in the Roberts (sewerage spills) and Pollack (ad tech) claims), damages actions, applications for injunctions and challenges to regulatory decisions on judicial review grounds, including in merger inquiries and market investigations.  He has an intimate understanding of the major UK regulators, having been seconded to the OFT, CC and ORR in the early years of his practice and has worked extensively in the field of telecoms and regulated utilities, and in the retail, finance, healthcare, sports and media sectors.

Qualified 2002; Inner Temple; junior tenant.

Birkdale School, Sheffield; Clare College, Cambridge (Law First Class); Brasenose College, Oxford (BCL Masters degree); New College, Oxford (Comparative Government MPhil).