Nicholas has appeared in many cases beyond the field of competition law, such as sex discrimination, free movement of persons, the Brussels Convention/Regulation on civil jurisdiction and judgments, and anti-dumping, including:
In anti-dumping and trade defence measures, Nicholas represented the Commission in over twenty cases before the EU Court of Justice, such as Case C-337/09 Council and Commission v Zhejiang Xinan Chemical Industrial Group (WTO transition rules for China).
Nicholas has also successfully defended many damages actions brought against the EU institutions before the Court of Justice, over a wide range of EU activity, such as: Cases T-485/93 etc. Dreyfus and Others v Commission, Case T-429/04 and C-419/08 P Trubowest v Council and Commission, Case T-540/18 ASL Aviation v Commission, Cases T-834/17 and C-297/22 P United Parcel Service v Commission and even claim for damages made before the High Court, in Tomanovic v European Union [2019] EWHC 263 (QB).
In relation to the EU-UK Withdrawal Agreement, Nicholas represented the Commission as an intervener in a post-Brexit judicial review concerning the Home Office’s arrangements for enforcing rules on the rights of EU nationals to remain in the UK; Independent Monitoring Authority v Secretary of State for the Home Department [2022] EWHC 3274 (Admin).