Nicholas Gibson

Nicholas has experience of diverse commercial and public law matters, with a focus on competition, telecoms and other economic regulation, procurement and general EU law, consumer credit and other consumer protection legislation, and human rights.

Since arriving at Matrix, Nicholas has been instructed by a range of clients in both the public and private sectors, regularly advising the Competition Commission and the Office of Fair Trading.  In addition to his work as a junior, Nicholas has appeared unled in the High Court, the Crown Court, the Competition Appeal Tribunal, the Employment Tribunal, the First-tier Tribunal (in the Immigration and Asylum, the General Regulatory, and the Health, Education and Social Care Chambers) and the County Court.  He has also advised and prepared written submissions unled for clients in the European Court of Human Rights and the Court of Appeal.  Further details of his experience are available here.

Before moving to Matrix in 2009, Nicholas worked for seven and a half years at Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer LLP, where on qualification he practised as an associate and solicitor-advocate in the firm’s Dispute Resolution department specialising in competition, commercial, EU and public law.  During his time as a solicitor, Nicholas advised regulators, major financial institutions and leading companies across a range of industry sectors, as well as acting pro bono for clients in various tribunals.

Nicholas also spent the judicial year 2007 to 2008 working as Judicial Assistant to Lord Bingham of Cornhill and Lord Walker of Gestingthorpe at the House of Lords.

Prior to becoming a solicitor, Nicholas spent time working in the Middle East for the United Nations and other non-governmental organisations on policy and legal matters, including issues of public international law and human rights.

Nicholas has lectured on the LLM course Human Rights: Theory & Practice at King’s College, London, and has also written articles in the Cambridge Law Journal and the European Human Rights Law Review and on the ukscblog.com and eutopialaw.com blogs. 

Professional qualifications

2010:               Registered to practise before the Dubai International Financial Centre (DIFC) Courts (Dubai, UAE)    

2009:               Called to the bar (England and Wales) as a transferring solicitor-advocate (exempted from all service of pupillage)

2004 – 2009:   Qualified as a solicitor-advocate (England and Wales, all courts)

2002 – 2004:   Qualified as solicitor (England and Wales)