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About
Provided by Maya Lester KC
Practice Areas
Maya Lester KC has a wide-ranging practice in public law, sanctions, EU & competition law, and human rights. She regularly appears in leading cases in England and Luxembourg and is qualified at the Bar of England and of Ireland.
Maya has a particular expertise in the law relating to economic sanctions, and founded and co-writes the leading online resource on sanctions law (europeansanctions.com). She represents and advises clients on sanctions issues and has acted in most of the leading cases, including Youssef, Synesis, Kadi 2, Tay Za, Central Bank of Iran, Lamesa and IRISL, and has given evidence on sanctions to a number of parliamentary committees. Her most significant cases include Wightman (the Brexit ECJ case on the revocability of Article 50), R (Bancoult) v Secretary of State (the Chagos Islands litigation in the UK and ECHR), Enron v EWS (the first fo low-on competition damages trial in the UK), the Shambo judicial review (on bovine TB), Walker v Innospec (civil partners pensions).
Maya appears in judicial reviews of regulatory decisions (eg Cityhook, UniChem), on proscribed terrorist organisations (LTTE, ISYF), competition appeals (including EURIBOR, Pay TV, horseracing, dairy, and construction recruitment forum) and damages actions (including Enron & National Grid).