Monckton Chambers has a track record of acting for the UK’s leading telecoms providers in regulatory disputes concerning network infrastructure and consumer services. Anneli Howard KC represented the Home Office in the CMA’s market investigation reference regarding the Airwave emergency communications network, while Robert Palmer KC is representing Gibtelecom in litigation surrounding access to the data centres used to house Gibraltar’s online gambling industry.
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Testimonials
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- 'David Hockney, John Keegan and James Mower are unfailingly excellent.'
- 'The clerking service is efficient, user friendly and always helpful.'
- 'Good quality of service.'
- 'Excellent service and helpful and friendly clerks.'
- 'We always get fantastic service.'
- 'Monckton is a very high quality set, and the go-to set for competition cases in particular. It has huge strength in depth in the field.'
- 'Monckton continues to be a go-to set for the competition side of telecommunications disputes and has a number of strong juniors in the pipeline.'
Silks
Leading Silks
KCs at the very top of their field, with a long-established record of market-defining cases, and widespread endorsement from clients and peers. All silks appointed in the last two rounds are listed further below.
Josh Holmes KC
Monckton Chambers ‘Josh is a superb lawyer and advisor, and the first person to try to instruct on any competition or telecoms matter. His written submissions are concisely and skillfully crafted, and his advocacy is calm, clear, and genuinely helpful to the court.’
Kassie Smith KC
Monckton Chambers ‘She is absolutely excellent at taking the difficult points in a case and turning them into a clear and coherent narrative for the court. Her presentation and style of advocacy is excellent, very relaxed and calm, and very determined when under pressure.’
Robert Palmer KC
Monckton Chambers ‘Robert is extremely knowledgeable on telecoms with significant experience across different types of disputes. Calm and logical advocacy.’
Tim Ward KC
Monckton Chambers ‘Simply one of the best around. His oral advocacy is forensic and compelling. An inspirational leader and formidable opponent.’
2023 Silks
KCs at the very top of their field, with a long-established record of market-defining cases, and widespread endorsement from clients and peers. All silks appointed in the last two rounds are listed further below.
Ben Lask KC
Monckton Chambers ‘Highly dedicated, fantastic attention to detail, with calm and clear advocacy.’
2024 Silks
KCs at the very top of their field, with a long-established record of market-defining cases, and widespread endorsement from clients and peers. All silks appointed in the last two rounds are listed further below.
Juniors
Leading Juniors
Leading juniors are those with significant experience of key cases, strong market recognition from both peers and clients, and are seen as future candidates for silk.
Fiona Banks
Monckton Chambers 'Fiona is impressively quick on the uptake, knows competition law and telecoms regulation inside out and always puts forward commercially workable solutions to knotty legal and regulatory questions. Her communication skills are excellent.'
