Monckton Chambers is delighted to announce that Steven Gee KC has been called to the Bar of the Republic of Ireland at the Call Ceremony in Dublin today, 11th October 2023.

Steven has been a member of Monckton Chambers since 2019, he was called to the bar in 1975 and elevated to silk in 1993. He is an experienced Commercial Litigator and Arbitration Specialist including in Commercial Fraud, Cross Border Disputes, Chancery, Conflicts of Law, Insolvency, Partnerships and Joint Ventures.

He is admitted to Practice in New York and the US District Courts for the Southern District of New York, and Eastern District of New York as well as being admitted in BVI, Eastern Caribbean and Antigua.

Steven appears in appellate courts in Eastern Caribbean, Cayman Islands, Bermuda, Bahamas, Hong Kong and is also a Recorder with Civil, Criminal, Chancery and Family tickets, including complex financial Authorisations.

Members and staff warmly congratulate Steven on his latest success.

Today the Legal 500 UK Bar guide 2024 was launched and, Monckton Chambers secured a record number of rankings totaling 144. This includes 61 individual barristers from Monckton listed across 23 practice areas, 13 new entries into the tables this year, 23 improved rankings and 6 members mentioned in the ‘rising star’ categories. Congratulations to all members listed.

Monckton Chambers has been recommended, as a Top-Tier set in the following five practice areas:

• Competition: ‘Well established as a first-rate competition law set’ ‘Monckton Chambers has very strong strength and depth in competition law, which makes it the go to chambers for many.’
• EU law: ‘a leading set for EU law, with extensive expertise in both the silk and junior ranks. Members are well known for appearing before prominent EU institutions in complex cases.’
• Telecoms regulation: ‘leading chambers for telecommunications law and regulation.’
• Public procurement: ‘home to a team of ‘highly talented practitioners’ in the public procurement arena.’ ‘‘Monckton is first rate – the “go to” chambers for public procurement.’
• Tax: VAT and excise: ‘leading set for VAT’ and other indirect tax matters, and the set’s expertise in EU and public law enables its members to handle a wide range of complex cases for both taxpayers and HMRC.’

The Set has also been ranked in a further three areas:

• Administrative law and human rights: ‘‘strong public law counsel‘, and the team is well known for its solid track record in handling high-profile civil liberties and public interest challenges and judicial reviews, both in the commercial and regulatory arenas.’
• Data protection: ‘definitely A-list.’
• Sport: ‘particular strengths in matters at the intersection of sport law with EU competition law, freedom of movement and cross-border trading.’

Members were also recognised as ‘Leading Individuals’ in:

• Aviation
• Court of Protection and community care
• Commercial Litigation
• Consumer
• Company
• Education
• Energy
• Fraud: civil
• Group Litigation
• Immigration (including business immigration)
• International arbitration: counsel
• Insolvency
• Local government (including rating law)
• Professional Negligence
• Social housing

Congratulations also to our clerking team for receiving excellent feedback from clients as part of the research process. The team are praised for being:

• ‘Very professional and very responsive.’
•  ‘All the clerks in my experience offer a stellar service. They are very responsive and I can rely on them for a swift response.’
• ‘Great clerking and a strong service ethos which permeates the whole offering right to the front desk, which is a credit to them.’
• ‘Super! We enjoy working with them, they are very organised and have got the art of customer service down to a T!’
• The clerks room is fantastic. They are extremely accommodating and commercial and there is a real feeling that they are going the extra mile.’

We would like to thank our clients and colleagues as ever for their kind feedback as part of this process. You can view the full list of  Monckton Chambers’ rankings here.

Monckton Chambers is delighted to announce that at the Legal 500 Bar Awards 2023 we were awarded the prestigious ‘Competition Set of the Year’ and Mark Brealey KC named ‘Competition Silk of the Year.’

The Legal 500 Bar Awards are determined on The Legal 500’s market-leading independent research, conducted by over 20 in-house and freelance researchers with in-depth knowledge of their practice areas for the annual directory.

Congratulations to all of our friends and colleagues across the bar who were shortlisted for awards and won in their categories.

Monckton Chambers is delighted to have been recognised and shortlisted for this year’s upcoming Chambers UK Bar Awards 2023.

The set has been nominated for ‘Competition Set of the Year’ and five members shortlisted for individual awards:

• Competition Silk of the Year – Rob Williams KC
• Competition Juniors of the Year – Anneliese Blackwood and Philip Woolfe
• Media, Privacy and Information Law Junior of the year – Nikolaus Grubeck
• Tax Silk of the year – Valentina Sloane KC

The shortlists are a result of extensive objective research by over 200 analysts. The lists reflect achievements over the past 12 months including outstanding work, impressive strategic growth and excellence in client service. They honour the work of Chambers across the country based on the research for the most recent edition of Chambers UK Bar.

Thank you to our professional clients for their ongoing support and for taking part in this year’s research cycle and congratulations to all those shortlisted.

The winners will be announced at the awards ceremony on 30th November 2023.

The full shortlist can be seen here.

Will Perry has returned to chambers after completing a Pegasus Scholarship with the Electronic Frontier Foundation in San Francisco. EFF is one of the world’s leading nonprofits defending digital human and consumer rights. During his time at EFF, Will worked on internet and platform regulation matters and cases involving digital privacy and freedom of expression.

In the words of the scholarship scheme’s founder, Lord Goff of Chieveley, “The Pegasus scholarship scheme makes it possible for gifted young lawyers – the future leaders of their professions – to learn about the practical working of the common law system in countries other than their own, and to form enduring links with lawyers in those counties”. Tim Ward KC, Ian Rogers KC, Alan Bates and Anneliese Blackwood are all previous scholars.

Monckton Chambers is delighted to announce that we have been shortlisted for ‘Chambers of the Year’ at the British Legal Awards 2023, hosted by Law.com International, the “premier legal awards in the region, representing the best of the best within the UK’s legal community.”

The awards ceremony will be held on Wednesday 29 November 2023 at City Central at the HAC and will celebrate those at the pinnacle of the profession.

Congratulations to all those that have been shortlisted. The full shortlist for all categories can be seen here.

We are pleased to announce that Alfred Artley has been successful with his application to the Attorney General’s ‘C’ Panel of Crown Counsel and both Raymond Hill and Ewan West have received renewals to their A Panel status for a further 5 years.

Alfred has established a strong junior practice in public procurement, competition, and general commercial law, and is regularly instructed by a range of government, corporate and private clients on significant pieces of litigation. He is ranked as a ‘rising star’ in public procurement by Legal 500, while Chambers UK 2023 describes him as “the junior counsel of his call that everyone wants on their team”.

The Attorney General maintains four advisory panels of junior counsel to undertake civil and EU work for all government departments. There are three London panels (an A panel for senior juniors, a B panel for middle juniors, a C panel for junior juniors) and a regional panel. In addition, there are three Public International Law Panels.

All appointments will commence from 1 September 2023 for five years.

The full list of Monckton Chambers panel members is:

• A Panel: Andrew Macnab, Peter Mantle, Raymond Hill, Alan Bates, Azeem Suterwalla, Ewan West, Jonathan Lewis.
• B Panel: Fiona Banks, Julianne Kerr Morrison, Conor McCarthy, Michael Armitage.
• C Panel: James Bourke, Jack Williams, Imogen Proud,  Khatija Hafesji, Will Perry, Alfred Artley.

Monckton Chambers are pleased to have been awarded Cyber Essentials Plus,  a Government-backed industry-supported scheme to help businesses protect themselves against common online threats, including cyber-attacks.

To achieve this quality mark, we recently passed a technical audit of our internal systems by a qualified and licensed external assessor. The rigorous and externally verified assessment process ensures that the best cyber defences are in place to protect Chambers business from the increasing number of wide-ranging cyber security risks.

We are committed to providing the highest levels of security and obtaining Cyber Essentials Plus, the highest level of certification offered under the Cyber Essentials Scheme, reinforces that.

The Legal 500 Bar Awards UK seeks to recognise chambers as a whole and individuals (barristers of all levels of seniority), clerks, other chambers professionals and arbitrators from London and across England, Scotland and Wales.

The shortlist for the 2023 awards has been announced and we are delighted to have been nominated for 19 awards, across 15 categories

• Competition junior of the year – Daisy Mackersie, James Bourke, Laura Elizabeth John
• Competition silk of the year – Kassie Smith KC, Mark Brealey KC, Ronit Kreisberger KC
• Competition set of the year – Monckton Chambers
• Group litigation and consumer silk of the year – Anneli Howard KC
• Immigration silk of the year – Robert Palmer KC
• Public law junior of the year – Brendan McGurk
• Sport silk of the year – Paul Harris KC
• Sport set of the year – Monckton Chambers
• Tax silk of the year – Melanie Hall KC
• Tax junior of the year – Raymond Hill
• Tax set of the year – Monckton Chambers
• Junior of the year – Alan Bates
• Clerk of the year – Gemma Goodwin
• Junior Clerk of the year – Samuel Walsh
• Front of House Team of the year – Monckton Chambers

Congratulations to everyone that has been shortlisted! The winners will be announced at the awards ceremony on the 3rd October 2023.

The full shortlist can be found on the Legal 500 website here.

The members of Monckton Chambers congratulate pupil barristers Natalie Nguyen and Hugh Whelan on being invited to join Chambers following successful completion of pupillage, during which they have experienced a wide range of Chambers practice areas. All are delighted they have accepted. 

Natalie and Hugh will join Chambers as tenants in October 2023.