David Scannell

David Scannell is a junior counsel at Brick Court Chambers, specialising in commercial, EU and competition law. 

David regularly appears, led and unled, in heavy commercial disputes. Recent work has included appearing in a £50m commercial (ICC) arbitration relating to an in-orbit satellite failure, a £500m conspiracy claim relating to oil concessions in Iraq and in Citibank's successfully-concluded litigation against Goldman Sachs relating to the short-selling of Venezuelan oil warrants.

He acted for Digicel (led by Charles Hollander QC) in its successful arbitral proceedings relating to sponsorship rights to the Stanford 20/20 cricket series in the West Indies; for Yorkshire Television in its successful defence of claims made in respect of royalties payable for broadcasts of The Darling Buds of May, A Touch of Frost and My Uncle Silas (Excelsior Group Productions v Yorkshire Television Limited [2009] EWHC 1751 (Comm))  and (again successfully) for the Islamic Republic of Iran (led by Sir Sydney Kentridge QC) in landmark proceedings relating to the recovery of national antiquities (Iran v the Barakat Gallery [2009] QB 22, [2008] 3 WLR 486). He appeared as junior counsel in the largest ever split capital investment funds case, with Simon Salzedo and led by Mark Howard QC (REO v Aberdeen Asset Managers).  David is also a member of the Bar of the British Virgin Islands and is a specialist in complex civil fraud proceedings. He regularly advises on all aspects of commercial law.

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.

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.