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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 clerks’ room ‘sets the benchmark’ for other sets with its ‘friendly, knowledgeable, and hardworking’ clerks.

"An outstanding commercial set with a track record of excellence across its core areas of work."

"A set that is singled out for its "first-rate" clerking and "client service-oriented, commercial approach."

Two Crown Panel Counsel appointments for Brick Court Chambers

01/09/15

From 1 September Margaret Gray has been appointed as Junior Counsel to the Crown A Panel, and Sarah Love has been appointed as Junior Counsel to the Crown B Panel - both for a period of five years.

Margaret Gray specialises in EU litigation, having appeared in around 50 cases before the EU Courts, and has expertise in competition and state aid, energy and environment, financial regulation, intellectual property and sanctions. She was standing counsel to ESMA advising on issues concerning sanctions on credit rating agencies. Her current cases include challenges to EU sanctions on Tamil Tigers and the Iranian Oil Company (for the UK Government), challenges to cartel infringements (for the European Commission), private competition claims against a number of major supermarket clients, Aer Lingus State aid recovery proceedings and judicial review of blood donation conditions in Northern Ireland.

Sarah Love is widely recognised as a leading junior in Competition, EU and Public & Administrative law. Her recent cases include AXA v Competition & Markets Authority (Private Healthcare Investigation), G v Director of Legal Aid and Lord Chancellor (exceptional case funding) and Addison Lee v Transport for London (minicabs using bus lanes).