Christian Davies

Christian has substantial experience of acting in commercial employment disputes in the High Court (both KBD and Chancery Division), including claims involving team moves, misuse of confidential information, breach of fiduciary, contractual and equitable duties, restrictive covenants, urgent interim injunctions, and springboard relief.

Examples of Christian’s current and recent work in this area include:

• Braunford LLP & Anor v Allain [2025] – Christian is currently acting (with David Craig KC and Charles Ciumei KC) for a developer of quantitative trading strategies in its ongoing claim for injunctive relief against a former employee who is alleged to have stolen confidential information.
• Dare International Ltd v Soliman & Hikmet [2025] EWHC 227 (KB) – Christian acted (with Paul Goulding KC, Jamie Susskind and Aliya Al-Yassin) for the claimant energy derivatives trading company, in its claim for injunctive relief against two former senior traders who had resigned to join a competitor.
• Guy Carpenter v Howden & Ors [2023] – Christian acted (with Dan Oudkerk KC, Amy Rogers KC, Rupert Paines, Ruth Kennedy and Freddie Onslow) for the global reinsurance broking firm, Guy Carpenter, in proceedings against Howden and various individuals relating to a team move.

Christian also has experience in the full range of statutory employment disputes, particularly high-value cases involving discrimination or whistleblowing, and regularly appears as sole counsel at preliminary and final hearings in the Employment Tribunal.

Christian acts in a wide range of public law and human rights matters, including judicial review proceedings and advisory work for individuals, corporate entities, NGOs, local authorities and central government departments.

Examples of Christian’s current and recent work in this area include:

• R (Donald) v SSHD [2024] EWHC 1492 (Admin) – Christian acted (with Nicola Braganza KC and Bijan Hoshi) for Black Equity Organisation in its intervention in this challenge to the Home Secretary’s decision not to proceed with recommendations of Wendy Williams’ independent review into the Windrush scandal.
• R (TransActual) v SSHSC [2024] EWHC 1936 (Admin) – Christian acted (with Jason Coppel KC, David Lock KC, Rob Harland and Charles Bishop) for the claimant NGO in its judicial review of the Health Secretary’s decision to ban puberty blockers for under-16s.
• R (Tax Returned Ltd) v Committee of Advertising Practice – Christian acted (with Tom Hickman KC) for the claimant company in this human rights challenge to the defendant regulator’s decision to remove its advertisements from Facebook. Judgment is awaited.

Christian has acted in numerous statutory appeals under the Freedom of Information Act 2000 and Environmental Information Regulations 2004, and is regularly instructed both as sole counsel and as part of a team in the First-tier Tribunal and the Upper Tribunal.

Christian accepts instructions in a wide range of education-related matters, including judicial reviews and discrimination claims. His current and recent clients include schools and multi-academy trusts, higher education institutions, local authorities, and the Department for Education.

Christian accepts instructions in a wide range of sport-related matters. He recently acted for World Athletics in a challenge before the Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS) regarding the regulations which govern who can compete in the women’s category in athletic events.