Brick Court Chambers

Brick Court Chambers is one of the leading sets of barristers’ chambers in the United Kingdom, with a team of over 100 full-time members, including 50 King’s Counsel. The set specialises in commercial, competition, international/EU, and public law, maintaining a strong reputation across these areas.

The chambers undertakes a wide range of commercial work, encompassing international trade, finance, and commerce, with particular emphasis on banking, insurance, reinsurance, shipping, City work, and private international law. Members also have expertise in professional negligence, media and entertainment law, defamation, takeovers and mergers, employment law, sports law, and public international law. The majority of work involves High Court litigation and commercial arbitrations, together with appeals to the Court of Appeal, Supreme Court, Privy Council, and associated advisory work. Junior members also handle common law cases in the County Court and employment tribunals.

Brick Court Chambers has a distinguished team of EU law practitioners who specialise in all aspects of EU and competition litigation. These members appear before the full range of English courts and tribunals, the Competition and Markets Authority, the Competition Appeals Tribunal, the Court of Justice and General Court in Luxembourg, and other international courts and arbitral tribunals. The chambers also has significant expertise in human rights law and commercial and regulatory judicial review, integrating its strengths across public, commercial, and EU law.

Members of Brick Court Chambers are recognised leaders in their fields, frequently involved in high-profile cases such as TGTL v CATS, Sharp and ors v Blank and ors (HBOS), KeyMed Ltd v Hillman and Woodford, Avonwick Holdings Limited v Azitio Holdings Limited and ors, The Federal Republic of Nigeria v JP Morgan Chase, AssetCo Plc v Grant Thornton UK, Manchester Building Society v Grant Thornton UK, FX and trucks damages litigation, Sainsbury’s Supermarkets Limited v Visa and ors/Mastercard and ors, CMA v Flynn Pharma Limited and Pfizer, Micula and others v Romania, and Miller v Prime Minister/Cherry and others v Advocate General for Scotland.

Heads of Chambers: Mark Howard KC, Helen Davies KC
Senior Clerks: Tony Burgess, Paul Dennison
Tenants: 104

Door Tenants: Phillips, Lord (1962); Hoffmann, Lord (1964); Hope, Lord (1965); Clarke, Sir Christopher (1969); Aikens, Sir Richard (1973); Simon, Sir Peregrine (1974); Popplewell, Sir Oliver (1951); Barling, Sir Gerald (1972); Walker, Sir Paul (1979); Chambers KC, HH Nicholas (1966); Forwood KC, Sir Nicholas (1970); Ma, the Hon Geoffrey (1978); Kentridge KC, Sir Sydney (1977); Webb KC, Robert (1971); Thorley KC, Simon (1972); Gordon KC, Richard (1972); Cran KC, Mark (1973); Wolffe KC, James (1992); Sutton, Alastair (1972); Muchlinski, Prof Peter (1981); Andenas KC (Hon), Dr Mads (1986); Sharp, Geoff (1999); Jones, Oliver (2009); McCorquodale, Prof Robert (2011).