Christopher Vajda KC

Former Judge at the Court of Justice of the EU; Barrister at MONCKTON CHAMBERS

Christopher Vajda KC was the UK judge at the Court of Justice of the EU (CJEU) between 2012 and 2020 (when Brexit occurred). He has been appointed to the Panel of Recognised International Market Experts in Finance (P.R.I.M.E), the Sports Resolutions panel, and to the panel of persons suitable for appointment as Chairpersons for Arbitrations to which the EU is a party. He has sat as an arbitrator in ICC, sports, and ad hoc arbitrations as well as giving expert evidence in arbitrations before, amongst others, ICSID tribunals and the SCC. His most recent published award is The FA Rule K arbitration award on the challenge by football agencies to the fee cap rule introduced by FIFA on football agents’ fees. While a judge at the CJEU he sat on a wide range of cases including in the field of aviation, banking, competition, energy, investor state treaties, sanctions, state aid, and tax. He was President of a three judge Chamber on two occasions. He is a visiting professor at the College of Europe in Bruges (where he gives a course on arbitration and EU law) as well as at King’s College, London, and at the University of Luxembourg where he teaches EU private international law.