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.

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.

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.