The Lord Banner KC

Justice Banner KC is a barrister based at Keating Chambers in London. He practises in England & Wales (where he was called to the Bar in 2004) and Northern Ireland (where he was called to the Bar in 2010), as well as internationally. He was appointed Queen’s Counsel in 2019. He has a broad practice, principally focused on public and private law issues relating to development and infrastructure (particularly in the energy, transport, housing and tourism sectors), but also covering government & regulation and commercial dispute resolution more generally. He is recommended in a total of 8 practice areas by Chambers & Partners UK Bar and Legal 500 UK Bar, and has been the recipient of multiple legal industry awards.

He has acted as counsel in over 100 reported cases, including 16 appeals in the UK Supreme Court, 13 cases before the EU Courts (CJEU and General Court) and 9 cases before the UNECE Aarhus Convention Compliance Committee. He was a Judicial Assistant to the Appellate Committee of the House of Lords (the predecessor to the UK Supreme Court) for 12 months in 2005-2006. He is a non-executive member of the Global Standards and Regulation Board of the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors (the global professional self-regulatory body for over 125,000 chartered surveyors and 25,000 firms worldwide) and an Independent Member of the UK Joint Nature Conservation Committee (the statutory UK nature conservation advisory body). From 2017 until 2020 he was the UK Member of the EU Fundamental Rights Agency’s Management Board. He speaks intermediate French and Russian. He was educated at the University of Oxford (Lincoln College).