Aidan Robertson QC

Aidan Robertson has extensive experience of all aspects of EU and Competition Law. He has appeared in numerous cases in the Competition Appeal Tribunal, High Court and Court of Appeal in England and in the CFI and ECJ at EU level. He has been involved in several ground-breaking cases, including acting for claimants in the first claims for damages in cartel cases in the CAT and in the first challenge to a merger decision in the CAT. He has considerable experience of representing clients during the administrative stage of proceedings before the European Commission, the Competition Commission and the Office of Fair Trading and is currently instructed by a large number of construction companies in the largest ever OFT cartel investigation. He also has an extensive advisory practice in EU and Competition Law.

Aidan Robertson is acting in the leading EU media rights cases of FA Premier League -v- QC Leisure and Murphy -v- Media Protection Services concerning broadcast rights to Premier League football matches, which is currently before the ECJ on reference from the High Court. He also acts in a wide variety of other EU law matters involving areas as diverse as agriculture and tax.

Prior to taking Silk in 2009, Aidan Robertson had been identified as one of the leading juniors in EU law by both the Legal 500 and Chambers and Partners for the previous 10 years and was awarded ‘Competition/EU Junior of the Year' at the 2005 Chambers Bar Awards. He teaches the postgraduate competition law course at Oxford University, where he is a now a visiting lecturer, having formerly been a full-time university lecturer and fellow of Wadham College.