Christopher Bellamy, Baron Bellamy
Sir Christopher William Bellamy, QC (born 1946) is a British barrister and former judge.
Early life and education
Born in 1946, Bellamy's father was a physician.[1] He attended the independent Tonbridge School and then Brasenose College, Oxford.[1]
Career
Bellamy was called to the bar at the Middle Temple in 1968. He spent a year teaching before starting to practise as a barrister in 1970,[1] when he joined Monckton Chambers.[2] He developed specialisms in European, competition and regulatory law, and in 1986 was appointed Queen's Counsel.[2]
Between 1992 and 1999, Bellamy was a judge of the Court of First Instance of the European Communities.[2] He then served as a judge on the Employment Appeal Tribunal between 2000 and 2007,[1] and as president of the United Kingdom's Competition Appeal Tribunals for the Competition Commission (between 1999 and 2003) and then of the Competition Appeal Tribunal (from 2003 to 2007).[1][2]
After leaving the judiciary in 2007, Bellamy became a senior consultant at Linklaters, where he was appointed chairman of its Global Competition Practice in 2011.[3] He left Linklaters in 2020 and resumed practising as a a barrister at Monckton Chambers.[2]
Honours and awards
Bellamy was a bencher of the Middle Temple in 1994.[1] He was knighted in the 2000 New Year Honours.[4]
References
- ^ a b c d e f "Bellamy, Sir Christopher (William)", Who's Who (online ed., Oxford University Press, December 2020). Retrieved 25 January 2021.
- ^ a b c d e "Sir Christopher Bellamy QC", Monckton Chambers. Retrieved 25 January 2021.
- ^ "Sir Christopher Bellamy QC", The Legal 500. Retrieved 25 January 2021.
- ^ Supplement to the London Gazette, 31 December 1999 (issue no. 55710), p. 2.