David Scannell’s EU/Competition Law CV

Qualifications

LL.B (Hons) Law (First Class); LL.M (Cantab.) (First Class with Distinction, 1st place); Ph.D (Cantab.); Bar Vocational Course

Competition

David Scannell has acted in a wide range of competition matters, before the High Court, the Competition Appeal Tribunal and the European courts. He is presently instructed by Sky in the heaviest proceedings yet heard in the Competition Appeal Tribunal, Sky v Ofcom, relating to the imposition by Ofcom of a requirement that Sky offer its Sky Sports 1 and 2 channels to other platform operators at fixed wholesale prices.  He also acted in a series of appeals against the imposition of massive fines by the European Commission for cartel offenses in the elevators and escalators market (Case T-151/07 KONE Corporation and Others v Commission). In 2006, he appeared, unled, in a series of Article 81EC/Chapter I cases in the Chancery and Queen's Bench Divisions, each of which resulted in the successful enforcement by Punch Taverns Plc of the beer-tie provisions in its leases.

  • Case T-151/07 KONE Corporation and Others v Commission
  • Punch Taverns (PTL) Ltd. v Moses (Ch. Div., Pumfrey J) [2006] All ER (D) 317
  • Punch Taverns (PTL) Ltd. v Central Estates Plc & Di Stefano (No. 1) (Ch. Div., 13 February 2006)
  • Punch Taverns (PTL) Ltd. v Central Estates Plc & Di Stefano (No. 2) (Ch. Div.,10 October 2006)
  • Punch Taverns (PTL) Ltd. v Ersin (QBD, Stanley Burnton J, 26 October 2006)

European Union Law

David has also acted in a number of EU law cases before the European and English Courts.  He acted for Telefonica O2 Europe plc, Orange and T-Mobile in the landmark Vodafone and Others v S/S BERR litigation before the Grand Chamber of the ECJ (Case C-58/08) and for Audace in its successful challenge of the imposition of anti-dumping duties on imports of glyphosate from China (Case T-498/04 Zhejiang Zinan Chemical Industrial Group v Council [2009] OJ C 180/42). He regularly advises on all aspects of substantive and procedural EU law and holds a doctorate in EU law from the University of Cambridge.  He graduated with Distinction and at the top of his LL.M class at Cambridge.

Important Cases

  • Case T-498/04 Zhejiang Zinan Chemical Industrial Group v Council [2009] OJ C 180/42
  • R(Telefonica O2 Europe plc & Others) v S/S Business, Enterprise and Regulatory Reform [2007] EWHC 3018 (for Telefonica, Orange and T-Mobile, led by David Anderson QC) (internal market regulation)
  • Case C-58/08 R(Telefonica and Others) v S/S BERR (pending) (led by David Anderson QC)
  • R(SPCM SA & Ors) v Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs[2007] EWHC 2610, [2007] All ER (D) 139 (led by David Vaughan CBE QC) (Chemicals regulation)
  • Case C-558/07 R(SPCM SA) and Others v S/S EFRA (led by David Vaughan CBE QC)
  • Case C-507/03 Commission v Ireland (An Post) [2007] ECR I-0000 (public procurement) (led by James Flynn QC)
  • Case C-532/03 Commission v Ireland (Ambulance Services) [2007] ECR I-0000 (public procurement) (led by James Flynn QC)

Publications

  • O'Byrne v Aventis Pasteur [2008] UKHL 34 (2008) Solicitors' Journal (forthcoming)
  • Book Review: European Union Law and Defence Integration (2006) 43 C.M.L.Rev 894
  • Legal Aspects of the EU's European Security and Defence Policy (2005), Ph.D dissertation, available from Cambridge University Library
  • Financing EU Military Operations (2004) 9 (4) E.F.A.Rev. 529-550
  • (With Hartenstein, Matta and others) Droit Global: Cinq Ans de Droit Comparé dans le Monde, Editions Panthéon-Assas, Paris, 2002
  • Trespassing on Sacred Ground: The Implied Competence of the European Community (2002) Cambridge Yearbook of European Legal Studies 377
  • The Influence of the General Principles of Community Law on Rules of Procedure and Rules of Substance in Ireland (2001) 1 (1) JSIJ 64

Career

Called to the Bar (Inner Temple) 2003

Pupillage (Brick Court Chambers) 2004-2005

Pupil Supervisors: Alan Maclean, Mark Hoskins, Roger Masefield, Aidan Robertson

Legal work experience before coming to the Bar

Senior Judicial Researcher (Clerk), Supreme Court, Ireland (2000 - 2001)

Judicial Researcher (Clerk), Supreme Court, Ireland (1999 - 2000)

Lecturer in common law legal systems, Institut de Droit Comparé, Universités de Paris I (Panthéon-Sorbonne) et II (Panthéon-Assas) (1998 - 1999)

Judicial Extern, Judges T. Hatter and K. Wardlaw, US Federal District Court, Los Angeles (1997)

Extern Appellate Prosecutor, Chief State's Attorney's Office, Hartford, Conn. (1995 - 1996)

Further Information

Languages: French, Spanish, Irish

Called to the Bar of the Eastern Caribbean Supreme Court in the Territory of the British Virgin Islands (2008)

Appointed to the EU committee of the Union Internationale des Avocats