"An excellent junior, who brings wider public and commercial experience to the case."
His current and recent public law cases include the TfL/Uber litigation before the Court of Appeal, and Uber's appeal against the decision to revoke its licence. Tim is also instructed by the Treasury to resist British Telecom's challenge to a decision to index public service pensions that may increase BT's pension liabilities by £600 million. In the recent past, Tim appeared in the Miller "Article 50" litigation, before the Divisional and Supreme Courts, and the Tobacco Plain Packaging judicial review (before the Court of Appeal). He also has considerable public international law experience, acting for NGOs, private parties and States in a variety of forums. Tim is currently instructed by one of the Core Participants before the Independent Inquiry into Child Sex Abuse.
Tim has a thriving public law practice. His current and recent public law cases include appearing before the Divisional Court for the Treasury to resist British Telecom’s challenge to a decision to index public service pensions (that may increase BT’s pension liability by £600 million). BT is now appealing to the Court of Appeal. Tim has also appeared in the TfL/Uber litigation before the Court of Appeal, and in Uber's appeal against the decision to revoke its licence. In the recent past, Tim appeared in the Miller "Article 50" litigation, before the Divisional and Supreme Courts, and the Tobacco Plain Packaging judicial review (before the Court of Appeal). He also has considerable public international law experience, acting for NGOs, private parties and States in a variety of forums. He recently acted for the International Commission of Jurists and the CORE Alliance (pro bono) in the Supreme Court in Lungowe and Others v Vedanta Resources Plc [2019] UKSC 20. Tim is currently instructed by one of the Core Participants before the Independent Inquiry into Child Sex Abuse.
In the field of competition law, Tim is currently acting for Pfizer resisting the CMA’s appeal in a case concerning whether Pfizer charged an excessive price for one of its pharmaceutical products. He is also acting for Ping before the Court of Appeal in its challenge to the finding that Ping’s restriction on internet sales of its golf clubs was an abuse of dominant position. Tim is also instructed for a large Claimant group in one of the trucks follow-on damages claims and in various telecommunications appeals before the Competition Appeal Tribunal and Court of Appeal.
Tim is also in demand in cases that raise complex questions of EU law and is currently instructed in four cases before the European Courts (two unled). He has previously appeared unled before the European Court of Justice in the UK’s reference concerning the Second Tobacco Products Directive. He regularly advises and acts for a range of government departments, local authorities and private contractors in the fields of public procurement and State aid.
Tim is regularly instructed in heavyweight commercial disputes. He has acted as a junior to Mark Howard QC in a multi-billion pound dispute arising out of a property development and he also is regularly instructed on his own in smaller matters. He is currently acting for two local authorities in separate, substantial contract disputes (valued at several million pounds). His recent cases include a major LCIA arbitration concerning a joint venture in the Middle East, and a dispute before the Grand Court of the Cayman Islands concerning the ownership of the Ritz Carlton Hotel.
Member of the Attorney General's C Panel of Counsel with Developed Vetting clearance.
Before coming to the Bar Tim was a fellow in Modern European History at St Peter’s College Oxford. He is the author of Being Soviet: Identity, Rumour and Everyday Life Under Stalin 1939-53.
Tim is a member of ALBA, COMBAR, Procurement Lawyers Association and the UK State Aid Law Association.
Select Publications:
'Notes From a Small Island: Natural Justice and the Institutional Design and Practice of Competition Authorities and Appellate Courts', in Competition Policy International (2014) (10.1) (with Robert O'Donoghue).
'The Snowden "Revelations": Is GCHQ breaking the law?', in, European Human Rights Law Review (2014) (2) (with Jemima Stratford QC).
Two chapters in K. Bacon, European Union law of State Aid (Forthcoming, OUP).
Contributing author to the forthcoming edition of M. Brealey ed., Competition Litigation: UK Practice and Procedure.
Before coming to the Bar Tim was a fellow in Modern European History at St Peter’s College Oxford. He is the author of Being Soviet: Identity, Rumour and Everyday Life Under Stalin 1939-53 (selected by the Financial Times as one of their non-fiction books of the year in 2011).
Tim is an occasional consultant to the Oscar-winning film production company Cloud Eight Productions and for Fox-Searchlight Films.
Tim carries out a wide range of public and public international law work, with a particular emphasis on cases that raise complex questions of human rights law.
He has significant expertise in the law of surveillance (including drones), counter-terrorism and information law as well as electoral law.
He is currently instructed to act for one of the Core Participants in the Independent Inquiry into Child Sex Abuse.
He is a member of the Attorney General's C Panel of Counsel with Developed Vetting Clearance and provides expert advice to the All Party Parliamentary Group on Drones.
His notable instructions include:
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Human Rights:
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Electoral law:
Surveillance, Security and Information Law:
Public Inquiries:
Discrimination:
Sanctions:
Advised on the potential consequences, for the purposes of the sanctions regime, of a commercial joint venture agreement (as a junior to Maya Lester).
Tim has a thriving EU and competition law practice. He is recognised in Legal 500 2018 as an up and coming practitioner who is “bright, quick and able to adjust to work in the way that clients require.”
Legal 500 (2018) describe Tim as "Very responsive, intelligent and commercially minded, one to watch for the future.” In previous years it has noted that he is “a team player who will work all hours to get the job done. He is on a fantastic upward trajectory with his public procurement practice."
Tim is currently instructed in four cases before the European Courts, two of them unled. He regularly advises alone on complex questions of EU law, freedom of establishment, State aid and public procurement.
Tim is currently acting in two leading recent cases before the Court of Appeal concerning abuse of dominant position (Pfizer and Ping). He also has extensive experience in regulatory appeals, particularly in the telecoms sector (BT v Ofcom).
His current notable instructions include:
His notable previous instructions include:
His notable instructions include:
Commercial Agency:
Regulatory:
Tim has a busy commercial litigation and advisory practice.
He is currently instructed to act alone for two different local authorities in substantial commercial disputes with a value of several million pounds.
He has previously advised on a multi-billion pound dispute arising out of a property development (as a junior to Mark Howard QC), appeared in an arbitration concerning a joint venture dispute arbitration in the Middle East (led by Tim Lord QC), as well as acting for a Government department in a substantial contract dispute (unled).
His notable instructions include:
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2011-2012: Pupillage Brick Court Chambers.
2010-2011: Bar Professional Training Course (Outstanding).
2009-2010: Graduate Diploma in Law (Distinction).
2003-2007: DPhil Modern History, Keble College, Oxford.
2002-2003: MSt Historical Research, Keble College, Oxford (Distinction).
1998-2001: BA Hons. Modern History, Keble College, Oxford (Double First).
Scholarships and Prizes:
2010-2011: Denning Prize, Lincoln's Inn.
2009-2010: Lord Bowen Scholarship, Lincoln's Inn.
1999-2006: Undergraduate and Graduate Scholar, Keble College, Oxford.
"He is bright, quick and able to adjust to work in the way that clients require." (Chambers & Partners 2019)
"Very responsive, intelligent and commercially minded, one to watch for the future." (Legal 500 2018-19)
"He is very supportive, quick to grasp facts and a barrister who provides good, practical advice." (Chambers & Partners 2018)
"An excellent junior, who brings wider public and commercial experience to the case." (Legal 500 2017)
"He combines intelligence and sensitivity with an incredible work ethic. A proactive lawyer who has an excellent sense of humour." "Tim is a team player who will work all hours to get the job done. He is on a fantastic upward trajectory with his public procurement practice." (Chambers & Partners 2017)
"Very responsive and clear in his views." (Legal 500 2016)
