Victoria Wakefield

Victoria Wakefield has appeared in the European Court of Justice, the House of Lords, the Court of Appeal, the High Court, county courts, the Information Tribunal, employment tribunals, the High Court of Tanzania, a Public Inquiry and in arbitration (LCIA rules). She has worked in almost all of Chambers' practice areas, and is as comfortable in a multi-million pound commercial dispute as in a judicial review.

Victoria's European law practice has included references for preliminary rulings (Cases C-14/10 Nickel Institute and C-15/10 Etimine) , appeals from the General Court to the European Court of Justice (Case C-426/11 P United Kingdom v the Commission) and applications for interim relief (Case C-391/08 Dow Agrosciences). In the English courts, her European practice has included appearing in the House of Lords in a commercial agents case (Lonsdale v Howard & Hallam [2007] 4 All ER 1). She has also been instructed in various competition law claims before the High Court  (Jones v Ricoh (due for trial in January 2012); Bookmakers Afternoon Greyhound Services v Amalgamated Racing Ltd and others [2008] All ER (D) 73 (Aug); Easyjet v Liverpool Airport (settled 2007); Adidas v International Tennis Federation & Ors (settled 2006)).

In respect of Administrative and Public law, Victoria has acted in various judicial reviews, for example as junior counsel for the Secretary of State for Business Innovation and Skills in the lethal injection export challenge (Zagorski  [2010] EWHC 3110 (Admin)) . She has also acted in various other types of proceedings (employment law claims, tax appeals, habeas corpus, a constitutional challenge in the High Court of Tanzania (Mkombozi v Attorney General)). Most recently, she was Junior Counsel for the MoD in the Baha Mousa Public Inquiry.

Victoria's commercial practice largely focuses on Commercial Court litigation (for example, breach of share sale warranty claims such as Rayden v Edwardo or Royal Bank of Scotland v Winterthur) and she has also appeared in the Court of Appeal in one such case (Associated British Ports v Ferryways (first instance [2008] 2 Lloyd's Rep 353) (CA [2009] 1 Lloyd's Rep. 595). She has also recently been instructed in a case before the Takeover Panel.

Victoria has also appeared, both led and unled, in arbitrations under LCIA rules.

Victoria frequently advises on all areas of her practice.