Sir Jeremy Lever KCMG QC

KCMG QC MA
Call date: 1957 Silk: 1972

Summary

Sir Jeremy Lever QC is one of the leading and most respected EU and competition lawyers at the Bar. In October 2007 he received the special award for 'Lifetime Achievement' at the Chambers Bar Awards where the spotlight was put on his half century of practice at the Bar, an accomplishment we honoured at a special dinner to mark the occasion in November.

He is a Fellow and Senior Dean of All Souls College, Oxford; Consulting Editor of Butterworth's Competition Law; one of the editors of the comparative law textbook on Tort Law (Metro Institute for Transnational Legal Research, Maastricht); a member of the Council of Management and the Executive Committee of the British Institute of International and Comparative Law. He was Chairman of Oftel's Advisory Body on Fair Trading in Telecommunications until the supersession of that Body in 2000; Consulting Editor of the 1st, 2nd and 3rd editions of Bellamy & Child on the Competition Law of the Common Market; and one of the assistant editors of Chitty on Contract. He has also written extensively on the topic of State Aids. On a regular basis he is being asked to intervene as an arbitrator.

Major Recent Cases

  • Scott SA v Commission in the CFI ~ State Aid
  • Courage Crehan at the House of Lords, intervening for OFT ~ competition 
  • Mastercard v OFT in the CAT ~ competition
  • Arbitration in International Centre for Settlement of Investment Disputes (World Bank)
  • Arbitration in London Court of International Arbitration

Fellow and Senior Dean of All Souls College, Oxford
Consulting Editor of Butterworth's Competition Law
One of the editors of the comparative law textbook on Tort Law (Metro Institute for Transnational Legal Research, Maastricht)
A member of the Council of Management and the Executive Committee of the British Institute of International and Comparative Law

Other Commercial Experience

Sir Jeremy was a Director (non executive) of Dunlop Holdings Ltd from 1973 through to 1980 and of Wellcome plc from 1983 through to 1994. He chaired the Appeals Panel of the UK Performing Right Society from 1997 to 2001.