Charles accepts instructions across all areas of commercial litigation. His recent experience includes:

• Municipio de Mariana v BHP Group (UK) Ltd – acting for the Part 20 Defendant in a group action claim allegedly valued at £36 billion, arising out of the collapse of a Brazilian dam (led by Vernon Flynn KC and Richard Eschwege KC, instructed by White & Case)
• Illiquidx Limited v Altana Wealth Limited – acting for the claimant in proceedings alleging breach of confidence (led by Andrew Green KC and Richard Eschwege KC, instructed by RPC)
• Arcadia Petroleum Limited v Bosworth & Ors – a US$330 million alleged fraud relating to oil trading in West Africa (as a pupil, assisting Richard Eschwege KC)
• Verlox International Ltd v Antoshin – jurisdiction challenge; defending subsequent applications for contempt (as a pupil, assisting Richard Eschwege KC)
• Stokoe Partnership Solicitors v Patrick Grayson & Ors – acting for the claimant in a case alleging breach of confidence and unlawful means conspiracy, involving allegations of unlawful hacking (as a pupil, assisting Gerard Rothschild)
• Prismall v Google UK Ltd & Deepmind Technologies Ltd – representative proceedings under CPR Part 19 for alleged misuse of private information (as a pupil, assisting Gerard Rothschild)
• St James Holdings Ltd v Staveley – a contractual dispute relating to the sale of Newcastle United Football Club (as a pupil, assisting Gerard Rothschild)
• Confidential matter – advising a high net-worth individual in relation to a potential claim against a private bank for breach of contract, negligence, and breach of statutory duty (as a pupil, assisting Gerard Rothschild)
• Confidential matter – advising a former employee of a renewable energy company in relation to a dispute regarding share entitlements (as a pupil, assisting Gerard Rothschild)

Charles accepts instructions across all areas of competition law. His recent experience includes:

• Justin Gutmann v Stagecoach & Ors – the first standalone collective proceedings and the first to concern an alleged abuse of dominance (as a pupil, assisting Sarah Abram KC)
• Secretary of State for Health and Social Care & Others v Lundbeck Limited & Others – follow-on damages claim in respect of alleged collusion between pharmaceutical companies (as a pupil, assisting Sarah Abram KC)
• BMW Emissions litigation – proposed group litigation against BMW in connection with alleged ‘defeat devices’ (as a pupil, assisting Sarah Abram KC)
• Pharmacosmos UK Limited and another v Vifor Pharma UK Limited and others – proceedings alleging an abuse of dominance in the pharmaceuticals sector (as a pupil, assisting Gerard Rothschild)
• Advising on the prospects of proposed opt-out collective proceedings in respect of an alleged breach of the Chapter I prohibition in the technology sector (as a pupil, assisting Sarah Abram KC)
• Advising a defendant company in the energy sector in respect of a proposed claim against it alleging excessive pricing (as a pupil, assisting Gerard Rothschild)
• Advising a defendant utilities company in relation to the potential certification of opt-out collective proceedings against it alleging an abuse of dominance (as a pupil, assisting Gerard Rothschild)

Charles accepts instructions across all areas of public law. His recent experience includes:

• Attorney General for the Falkland Islands v Teslyn Siobhan Barkman – proceedings concerning the rights of dual nationals to vote and to hold office under the constitution of the Falkland Islands (as a pupil, assisting Gerard Rothschild)
• Airwave Solutions Limited & Others v Competition and Markets Authority – an application for review of a CMA decision under section 179 of the Enterprise Act 2002, raising issues concerning A1P1 property rights (as a pupil, assisting Sarah Abram KC)

• An LCIA arbitration concerning a dispute in the investment management industry (as a pupil, assisting Richard Eschwege KC)
• A challenge, under sections 67, 68 and 69 of the Arbitration Act 1996, to an award concerned with a reinsurance dispute (as a pupil, assisting Richard Eschwege KC)
• An HKIAC arbitration regarding patent portfolio licensing (as a pupil, assisting Sarah Abram KC)

Education

• 2021-2022: Bar Vocational Studies (Distinction, second in year), City Law School
• 2020-2021: Graduate Diploma in Law (Distinction), City Law School
• 2015-2019: BA Literae Humaniores (Congratulatory Double First), New College, University of Oxford

Scholarships and prizes

• Lord Scarman Scholarship, City Law School, 2022
• ICLR Busfield Prize for Legal Research and Opinion Writing, City Law School, 2022
• Lord Denning Scholarship, Lincoln’s Inn, 2021
• City Law School Scholarship for Academic Excellence, 2021
• Lord Bowen Scholarship, Lincoln’s Inn, 2020
• Gibbs Prize for the best performance in philosophy, University of Oxford, 2019
• Academic Scholarship, New College, University of Oxford, 2017