Masters of the Bench

George practices in public law, competition law (particularly subsidy control/State aid), VAT, medicines regulation and regulatory law. 

After reading PPE at Exeter College, Oxford, George began his legal career as a lawyer at the then Office of Fair Trading in 1992, before joining Monckton Chambers in 1998.  He served for many years on the Attorney General’s panels until he took Silk in 2015.  He has appeared many times in the Court of Justice of the EU and in the higher courts of England and Wales.  He has regularly given evidence on Brexit and subsidy control related matters to Parliamentary Select Committees, and is currently chairing the Bar Council working group on retained EU law, in addition to being a member of the executive of the Society of Labour Lawyers and of the Administrative Law Bar Association.

George has recently contributed to textbooks on the Ireland/Northern Ireland Protocol and the UK Internal Market Act, and writes on legal and constitutional issues for both professional and more general publication.  He was Called to the Bar of Ireland in 2018.