David Phillips QC

Practice Overview

Although he provides general advice in a variety of non-contentious matters, David is best known in the field of commercial litigation/dispute resolution. David sees the objective of litigation as being to secure for the client the most advantageous result in the least costly and least time consuming way possible.  David is pleased that some of his most successful work will never be in the public domain. David recognises the importance of team work and of dealing with the work efficiently in a relaxed manner.

Professional Reputation

The Legal 500, 2009 ranks David as a 'leading silk' in Sports law. It describes him as a "disarmingly talented" sports expert.

Chambers & Partners, 2009  comments that David "attracts praise for bringing potentially damaging proceedings to a swift conclusion out of the public eye".  An earlier edition of Chambers & Partners described David as a "barrister who doesn't make a song and dance about things but just gets them done".

Memberships

David is a legal chairman of the:

• National Anti-Doping Panel
  
• Sport Resolution panel, and
  
• Great Britain Greyhound Board appeal panel. 
  
• He is a legal member of the FA Judicial Panel, and of the FAPL Disciplinary Panel.  

David sits regularly as an arbitrator on these bodies.