Christopher 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 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
  1. "Bellamy, Sir Christopher (William)", Who's Who (online ed., Oxford University Press, December 2020). Retrieved 25 January 2021.
  2. "Sir Christopher Bellamy QC", Monckton Chambers. Retrieved 25 January 2021.
  3. "Sir Christopher Bellamy QC", The Legal 500. Retrieved 25 January 2021.
  4. Supplement to the London Gazette, 31 December 1999 (issue no. 55710), p. 2.
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