Alan Bates

Barrister at Monckton Chambers

Speaker

Alan is a barrister at Monckton Chambers in London, specialising in competition, subsidy control and public procurement law. He is also a Deputy Judge in the High Court of England and Wales, and co-author of a practitioners’ text on the UK’s post-Brexit internal market legislation. He was lead counsel for the defendant to the first competition class action in the UK (Gibson v Pride) and continues to play a leading role in the development of the UK’s collective actions regime.

His current class action work in the UK’s Competition Appeal Tribunal include representing the Bed & Breakfast Association in its class action against Booking.com, and defending the cryptocurrency exchange Bittylicious against a class action relating to losses alleged to have been caused by crypto exchanges’ collective boycott by of a particular cryptocurrency. He also defended Casio in the Musical Instruments collective action that was recently abandoned by the class representative.