Derek Sutton
Joint Senior Clerk
+44 (0) 207 822 7327
Ben accepts instructions in all areas of Chambers’ practice, including employment, civil fraud, public, commercial, media, information and sports law. He will commence practice in September following the successful completion of his pupillage.
Before joining the Bar, Ben worked for the BBC as an award-winning political reporter, presenter and audio producer. He also worked in communications at the University of Surrey, promoting the public understanding of its research into space technology, environmental science, and artificial intelligence.
Ben accepts instructions in all areas of public and regulatory law.
Acting for migrants who had been unlawfully detained on Diego Garcia, in their subsequent challenges to the UK Government’s decision to impose a no recourse to public funds condition (as a pupil, assisting Natasha Simonsen).
Ben accepts instructions in all areas of Data Protection, Freedom of Information & Privacy law.
Acting for the Judicial Appointments Commission, defending an appeal to the First Tier Tribunal which sought disclosure relating to its judicial selection processes (as a pupil, assisting Natasha Simonsen).
Acting for the Health and Safety Executive in an FTT appeal, which concerned whether it was obliged to release pesticide user records held by third parties under the Environmental Information Regulations (as a pupil, assisting Ravi Mehta).
Ben accepts instructions in all areas of commercial law.
Advising a technology company as to the merits of bringing a multi-million pound civil fraud claim against an overseas development corporation (as a pupil, assisting Shane Sibbel).
Acting for an airline in a trademark licence dispute (as a pupil, assisting Daniel Burgess).
Acting in a challenge to the jurisdiction of the Dubai International Finance Centre Courts to enforce a foreign judgment (as a pupil, assisting Daniel Burgess).
Ben accepts instructions in all areas of sports law.
Acting for an athlete challenging the allocation of qualifying places for the Milano-Cortino Winter Olympic Games, in a case before the Court of Arbitration for Sport (as a pupil, assisting Ravi Mehta).
Advising a football club on a contractual dispute with a former player (as a pupil, assisting Ravi Mehta).
Ben accepts instructions in all areas of intellectual property law.
Acting for a multinational media company seeking a FRAND licence for the use of various patents related to video streaming technology (as a pupil, assisting Ravi Mehta).
A claim for the termination of copyright licences, brought by the assignee of the recordings catalogue of the late reggae producer Bunny Lee (as a pupil, assisting Shane Sibbel).
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Derek Sutton
Joint Senior Clerk
+44 (0) 207 822 7327
Adam Sloane
Joint Senior Clerk
+44 (0) 207 822 7326
Dean Tolman
Deputy Senior Clerk
+44 (0) 207 822 7331
Billy Brian
Deputy Senior Clerk
+44 (0) 207 822 7339
Danny Compton
Deputy Senior Clerk
+44 (0) 207 822 7338
Marc Armstrong
Clerk
+44 (0) 207 822 7330
Adam Fuschillo
Clerk
+44 (0) 207 822 7329
Sophie Reeve
Clerk
+44 (0) 207 822 7324
Ben Davis
Clerk
+44 (0)20 7822 0804
Toby Dennison
Clerk
+44 (0) 207 822 7328
Daniel Higgins
Clerk
+44 (0) 207 822 7322
Lilly-Grace Hilliard
Clerk
+44 (0)20 7822 7234