Fraser Campbell KC
MA
Quondam Fellow since 2020
Fraser Campbell KC is a barrister at Blackstone Chambers in London. He specialises in commercial disputes, and is also experienced in judicial review cases. Prior to being appointed silk in March 2025, he was a member of the Attorney General’s ‘A’ Panel of Counsel. He serves on the Advisory Board of the legal mentoring charity Lawyers Who Care, and as a trustee of the charitable trust that oversees the Oxford Union. His current research interests focus on the control of powers in private law: he is a contributor to the forthcoming next edition of the textbook Thomas on Powers (Oxford University Press).
- King’s Counsel (2025)
- Fifty-Pound Fellow, All Souls College (from 2013 to 2020)
- Barrister, Blackstone Chambers, London (Called to the Bar: 2010) (from 2010)
- Clifford Chance LLP, London (from 2007 to 2010)
- Examination Fellow, All Souls College (from 2006 to 2013)
- Legal Practice Course (Distinction), BPP Law School, London (from 2005 to 2006)
- Erasmus Visiting Student, European and Human Rights Law, University of Leiden (from 2003 to 2004)
- President, The Oxford Union (from 2002 to 2003)
- Undergraduate (Crystal Scholar), Pembroke College, Oxford (from 2000 to 2005)
- Control of powers in private law
- Shareholder rights
- Commercial judicial review, particularly in the energy and life science sectors
- New perspectives on social democratic policy, particularly regarding tax
- A Review of Maxwellisation (with Andrew Green QC and others), House of Commons Treasury Select Committee, 2016
- The Law of Political Donations (with Patricia Barratt and Michael Smyth), Wildy & Sons, 2012
- Former Junior Counsel to the Crown
- Former Specialist Adviser to the House of Commons Treasury Select Committee
- Trustee, Oxford Literary and Debating Union Trust (member of fundraising sub-committee)
- Advisory Board, Lawyers Who Care