Practice areas
Blackstone Chambers practice encompasses a very wide range of practice areas. More information about these can be found in the attached pages. Members of Chambers also have a broad range of experience across various industry sectors. Please click on the link to see our Sector expertise.
Practice Areas
Commercial
- Banking and Financial Services
- Civil Fraud
- Commercial Arbitration
- Commercial Judicial Review
- Company Law
- Conflict of Laws
- Construction
- Consumer Credit
- Defamation
- Insolvency
- Insurance and Reinsurance
- Internet Law
- Intellectual Property
- Partnership
- Private International law
- Professional Negligence
- Project Finance
- Sale and Carriage of Goods
- Shipping & Aviation
Employment
- Bonuses
- Data Protection
- Directors
- Discrimination
- Employee Benefits (Share Options, Restricted Stock)
- Equal Pay
- European law
- Executive Contracts and Duties
- Industrial Action
- Pensions
- Redundancy
- Restrictive Covenants, Confidential Information and Garden Leave
- Trade Unions
- Transfer of Undertakings
- Whistleblowing
- Wrongful and unfair dismissal
Public Law and Human Rights
- Commercial Judicial Review
- Community Care
- Medical and Mental Health
- Constitutional
- Data Protection and Privacy
- ECHR & Civil Liberties
- Education
- Environment
- Extradition
- Freedom of Expression
- Freedom of Information
- Immigration and Nationality
- Inquiries
- Local Government
- Planning judicial review
- Police and Prison Law
- Professional regulation and discipline
- Public Procurement & PFI
- Right to Property
- Social Security and housing
EU and Competition
- Cartels (public, private and criminal enforcement)
- Conflict of laws
- CAT work - all dimensions
- Environment
- EU discrimination law
- Free movement of Goods
- Free movement of People, immigration and asylum
- Free movement of Services
- Pharmaceuticals
- Public Procurement and PFI
- Sector investigations by competition authorities
- State Aids
- Telecommunications
- Trade Law
- Taxation, VAT and customs matters
Public International Law
- Boundary disputes (land and sea)
- International investment protection
- International law aspects of EU law
- International protection of human rights
- International trade law
- Jurisdictional issues
- Sovereignty disputes
- State responsibility
Domestic and International Arbitration
- Domestic Arbitration
- International Arbitration
