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‘One of the super-sets’, Brick Court Chambers is ‘an all-round strong’ set with ‘a large selection of high-quality competition law specialists’, ‘top commercial counsel’, ‘an excellent chambers for banking litigation’, and a ‘go-to’ set for public administrative law.
The Legal 500 2020
The clerks’ room ‘sets the benchmark’ for other sets with its ‘friendly, knowledgeable, and hardworking’ clerks.
The Legal 500 2020
"An outstanding commercial set with a track record of excellence across its core areas of work."
Chambers & Partners 2018
"A set that is singled out for its "first-rate" clerking and "client service-oriented, commercial approach."

All five Brick Court pupils offered tenancies

08/07/22

Brick Court Chambers is delighted to announce that it has offered tenancy to all five of its 2021-22 pupils - bringing the total number of tenants up to 105.  The new members of chambers are:

  • Jaamae Hafeez-Baig
  • Joshua Pemberton
  • Jagoda Klimowicz
  • Sarah O'Keeffe
  • Alastair Richardson

Mohammud Jaamae Hafeez-Baig commenced pupillage after having practised as a barrister in Australia, where he gained experience in a broad variety of commercial matters. He has also worked as a Judge's Associate at the Supreme Court of Queensland and was a Judge's Associate to the Hon Justice Patrick Keane AC at the High Court of Australia. He is one of the authors of Hafeez-Baig and English, The Law of Tracing (Federation Press, 2021). Jaamae holds a Bachelor of Laws (First Class Honours, University Medal) and a Master of Laws from the University of Queensland and a Bachelor of Civil Law (with Distinction) from the University of Oxford (Magdalen College). During pupillage, he worked on a range of commercial, competition, intellectual property, and public law matters, including contractual disputes, civil fraud claims, competition claims, and jurisdiction disputes. Jaamae joins chambers in July 2022.

Josh Pemberton graduated with a Bachelor of Laws with first class honours and a Bachelor of Arts (Politics, Philosophy and Economics) from the University of Otago, New Zealand, finishing top of his year in Law. Josh was called as a barrister and solicitor in New Zealand in 2015 and worked as a judge’s clerk (judicial assistant) to Justice William Young at the Supreme Court of New Zealand before completing an LLM at Harvard Law School in 2017. Prior to commencing pupillage Josh spent four years working in human rights litigation and grant-making strategy in the New York and London offices of the Open Society Foundations, the world’s largest human rights philanthropic organisations. Josh has taught contract law at the London School of Economics and International Human Rights Law at SOAS University of London, and tutored law at the University of Otago. During pupillage, Josh worked on a range of high-profile public, commercial and competition cases. Josh joins chambers in July 2022.

Jagoda  Klimowicz holds first class degrees from King’s College London (LLB) and the University of Cambridge (LLM). Prior to coming to the bar she worked in various research assistant roles, including at the Law Commission of England and Wales and at the Lauterpacht Centre for International Law, and as a paralegal at White & Case LLP and Herbert Smith Freehills LLP. She holds 14 awards and scholarships, including being a UK champion and international quarter-finalist in the Phillip C Jessup Mooting Competition. During pupillage Jagoda assisted on a range of matters in chambers’ areas of practice, including judicial reviews raising human rights issues, claims under the competition collective proceedings regime, and commercial disputes. Jagoda joins chambers in September 2022.

Sarah O’Keeffe graduated with a first class degree in Law with Spanish Law (Brasenose College, Oxford). This included a year studying at Universitat Pompeu Fabra in Barcelona. She then obtained a distinction in the BCL, receiving the One Essex Court and Barry Nicholas scholarships. During her studies Sarah secured six scholarships and six university prizes, including for the highest marks in human rights (UPF) and criminal litigation (the bar course). Before coming to the bar, Sarah was a research assistant to professors Ariel Ezrachi and Rebecca Williams, primarily in competition law, law and computer science, and public law. She then worked with the British Institute of International and Comparative Law, researching private international law and AI. During pupillage Sarah worked on competition law proceedings in technology, pharmaceuticals and interchange fees; high-value international commercial litigation; international human rights, particularly discrimination; judicial reviews; and GDPR advice.  Sarah joins chambers in September 2022.

Alastair Richardson completed an LLB (first class) at Trinity College Dublin and the BCL (distinction) at the University of Oxford. He received a number of prizes during his studies, including the Herbert Hart prize for Jurisprudence at Oxford and a Foundation Scholarship at Trinity College Dublin. Before starting pupillage Alastair worked as a research assistant on the public law team at the Law Commission of England and Wales and completed the bar course at the Inns of Court College of Advocacy. During pupillage he worked on a range of commercial, competition and public law matters, including follow-on and standalone competition claims, an application for a collective proceedings order in the CAT, an appeal against a decision of the CMA, a commercial arbitration involving a joint venture dispute, and a judicial review with a USD>400m damages claim under A1P1. Alastair joins chambers in September 2022.