Daniel Edmonds
Call date
2010
Practice Areas
During his 12 month pupillage at Fountain Court Daniel worked on in excess of 50 contested and uncontested matters for different members of chambers (both silks and juniors). Having been taken on, Daniel is now developing a broad commercial and civil practice in line with Chambers’ profile and is particularly interested in the following areas:
- Commercial Litigation and Arbitration
- Banking and Financial Services
- Conflict of Laws and Jurisdiction
- Civil Fraud
- Insurance and Reinsurance
- Aviation
- Professional Negligence
- Regulation and Professional Discipline
- Sale of Goods and International Trade
Education
BA (Philosophy, Politics and Economics), Brasenose College, Oxford University (First class, ranking 1st in economics and 2nd overall)
BA (Law) (accelerated), Wolfson College, Cambridge University (Double first class, ranking 4th and 6th respectively)
LLM, Harvard Law School
BVC, City University (Outstanding)
Prizes and Scholarships
Kennedy Scholar (United Kingdom)
Frank Burris & Gahan Scholar (Inner Temple)
Prize for Outstanding performance on the BVC (Inner Temple)
Duke of Edinburgh Entrance Scholarship (Inner Temple)
Major CPE Scholar (Inner Temple)
Hicks & Webb Medley Prize for best overall performance in Economics (Oxford)
John Hicks Foundation scholarship for best performance in Macroeconomics (Oxford)
College Prizes for academic achievement (Brasenose College, Oxford).
Commendations for best performance in the Law of Torts and Law and Economics (Cambridge)
Sir David Williams Prize (Wolfson College, Cambridge)
2 x Jenning’s prizes (Wolfson College, Cambridge)
Other Experience
- Currently instructed (with Derrick Dale QC) in relation to human rights violations in Cambodia
- Volunteer legal adviser at the Bethnal Green Legal Advice Centre
- Volunteer with the Harvard Law School Prison Legal Assistance Project, representing prisoners in Massachusetts disciplinary proceedings (2008-2009).
- Daniel successfully completed the intensive Harvard Law School advocacy and negotiation workshops (2008-2009)
Languages
Daniel speaks conversational Mandarin Chinese and Spanish.
Interests
Daniel enjoys theatre, comedy, travel, and sports (and has optimistically signed up for the Paris marathon).