Tim Ward KC

Competition, public, telecommunications and EU. In competition law, Tim won both of second and third competition class actions to come to judgment: Gutmann v SWR (boundary fares) for the defendant and Kent v Apple (app store) for the claimant. He won the only trucks cartel case to have come to trial: Royal Mail v DAF. He has acted in a very wide range of other competition and telecoms litigation, more than 50 cases in the European courts (eg: Icesave - Icelandic banking crash) and public law at every level of the courts including the Supreme Court (Uber).

Called 1994. KC 2011. Joint Head of Chambers, Monckton Chambers 2016 - present. Irish Bar 2018. Prior to silk, AG's A Panel. The Lawyer Barrister of the Year 2013. Chairman Bar European Group 2013-15. Bencher of Gray’s Inn. Knight’s Cross of the Order of the Falcon, Iceland 2023.

Competition Litigation in the UK (Sweet & Maxwell 2005), Judicial Review and the Human Rights Act (2000) and The Strasbourg Case Law - Leading Cases from the European Human Rights Reports (2001). Founding editor Human Rights Law Reports - UK Cases (Sweet & Maxwell) and Contributor to Bellamy & Child, The European Community Law of Competition.