Marc Beaumont is an experienced and accomplished appellate advocate. He has achieved notable successes in appeals to the English Supreme Court, Court of Appeal and High Court and in disciplinary appeals to the Visitors to the Inns of Court (Barrister cases) and the Administrative Court (Barrister and Solicitor cases).
Marc Beaumont has also pioneered the use of direct access in the appellate field – businesses and individual clients are entitled to instruct Marc directly and to cut out what is often the substantial cost of instructing solicitors.
Watch Marc’ Beaumont’s Supreme Court advocacy here
Watch Marc Beaumont’s Court of Appeal advocacy here
Appellate successes include:
H v Bar Standards Board (2026) 28 April, Mrs Justice Dias (Administrative Court)
(Appeal against sanction; barrister imprisoned for 23 months for causing death by dangerous driving, but released on licence after 9 months; whether BTAS suspension should run for the full 23 months; Marc Beaumont persuaded High Court on appeal to depart from Council for the Regulation of Healthcare Professionals v General Dental Council & Fleischmann [2005] EWHC 87 (Admin), so that the BTAS suspension should have ended as from release on licence).
RICS v BS (2025) Oct – Appeal
Appeal by RICS alleging “undue lenience” and pressing for the substitution of expulsion for a fine; Marc Beaumont’s successfully submitted that a fine of £25,000 was hardly lenient and in any event, the decision of the DT fell within a range of reasonable outcomes; the DT agreed and dismissed the appeal.
Waller-Edwards v One Savings Bank plc [2025] UK Supreme Court 22
Application of the Etridge principles as to constructive notice of undue influence to hybrid loans, which are partly for joint purposes and partly for a husband’s sole purposes; meaning of “surety”; meaning of “on inquiry”; need for a ‘bright line rule’ of universal application; watch Marc’s advocacy here
T v Bar Standards Board [2025] EWHC 1029 (Admin)
Direct access client’s papers lost in chambers; barrister stated falsely that he had left them at home; assertion this was. a `white lie; barrister self-represented at trial; default sanction is disbarment; sanction imposed: 6 months’ suspension; tantamount to a £100,000 fine; T instructed Marc Beaumont to draft and argue an appeal against sanction; appeal allowed; substitution of a fine of £25,000 for original suspension.
Suleman v General Optical Council [2023] EWHC 2110 (Admin)
Statutory appeal to High Court; Student Optician; tried in her absence; allegations that worked at Specsavers whilst unregistered; convicted and erased; Marc Beaumont discovered that one of the panel members had been a director of a Specsavers practice for 25 years and that at the time of trial he was still taking locum work from Specsavers on a significant scale; Marc Beaumont’s argument that decision tainted by apparent bias succeeded and matter remitted for re-trial
KF v Bar Standards Board. [2022] EWHC 1128 (Admin).
Appeal by barrister to High Court; Sexual assault by barrister on member of chambers in private life; criminal conviction; attempt at cover story in private texts; whether a ‘white lie’ ?; By majority 4:1, 3 sentences of disbarment; medical condition; application of Howd v BSB [2017] 4 WLR 54; scope of reach of BSB into private life; ECHR Article 8; whether disbarment manifestly excessive; 3 disbarments set aside and replaced with 3 suspensions of 2 years, 4 months and 2 months; whether dissenting judgments should be published; whether dissenting panellist’s identity should be secret.
Forz Khan v Bar Standards Board [2018] EWHC 2184 (Admin)
Appeal to High Court; barrister released sensitive information about another barrister in 2 robing rooms; Whether “professional misconduct” as defined in Howd v BSB; whether disciplinary proceedings a violation of barrister’s right to freedom of expression in Article 10 of the ECHR; sanction of suspension reduced by 4 months to 3 months, as excessive and disproportionate; whether a disciplinary conviction based on a guilty plea can be appealed
the ground-breaking Court of Appeal decision in R (Kaur) v ILEX on the law of apparent bias, in which Marc’s oral and written advocacy persuaded the Court of Appeal to reverse the High Court and to expand the common law;
JS v Bar Standards Board in which the finding and sentence of a disciplinary tribunal was quashed on the basis that a ruling at trial that the BSB could rely on a written statement of the complainant, despite having taken no steps whatsoever to ask him to attend trial was described as “jejune”. Substantial costs order made against BSB on appeal and in relation to the grossly unfair disciplinary trial.
Persuading the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors to re-open (in all, 317) cases in which inquorate 2-person panels had expelled surveyors.
Okoronkwo v Solicitors Regulation Authority in which Marc produced a clinching analysis of section 43 of the Solicitors Act 1974 to defeat the SRA
O’Connor v Bar Standards Board in which Marc fearlessly impeached an error-strewn decision of a Bar disciplinary tribunal
Q v Bar Standards Board in which Marc defeated the BSB in 45 minutes after they declined to concede an appeal in which the Bar disciplinary tribunal had failed to give a single reason for holding a Barrister to be a perjurer and dishonest.
From January 2014, the appellate jurisdiction of the Visitors to the Inns of Court has been replaced by a direct route of appeal from a Bar Disciplinary Tribunal to the High Court. Marc advises and represents members of the Bar in such appeals and has a favourable record of success in such work, despite it being often very challenging.
International clients are entitled to instruct Marc Beaumont to act in appeals in commercial cases. Marc offers a Privy Council appeals service for overseas territories (see international page).