Hugh Mercer QC
Born: 1962
Call: 1985 (Middle Temple)
Silk: 2008
Contact
Essex Court Chambers
24 Lincoln's Inn Fields, London WC2A 3EG
Tel: 020 7813 8000 Fax: 020 7813 8080
Place des Peintres 9, 1348 Brussels-LLN, Belgium
Tel: +32 (0) 10 45 7373 Fax: +32 (0) 10 45 7363
hmercer@essexcourt.net
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About
EU (all areas ranging from free movement of goods or companies to public procurement; customs to competition; application of regulations and directives in areas from commercial to criminal law), EU Agriculture & Fisheries. Competition (especially in relation to shipping and transport, retailing/distribution, utilities) & state aid with regulatory work in Water, Gas, Telecoms, OFT/European Commission, and Financial Services. Public law, ECHR (including coroners, agriculture, tax), Environment, Health (including medicines regulation, food safety and issues arising from overseas provision). Conflict of laws, Rome Convention, Brussels Convention and EU Regulation 44/2001, Foreign law, International law, Arbitration.
Chairman of the liaison committee between all EU lawyers and the European Courts of Justice – CCBE Permanent Delegation to the Court of Justice and the General Court of the European Union.
Education
- MA, Downing College, Cambridge
- Licence spéciale en droit européen (Brussels)
Languages
Fluent in French; excellent in German, Italian and Spanish.
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