White & Case LLP - Lawyers - Alastair Sutton

Practice Experience

Mr. Sutton is a member of the English Bar, concentrating in the law and policy of the European Union, international trade and English public law, including actions before the European and English courts involving EU law. His practice focuses on EU economic and constitutional law (especially involving EU "single market" law, competition and state aids, intellectual property, the free movement of goods, financial services, direct and indirect tax, and monetary law), energy policy (especially nuclear, natural gas and electricity), environmental protection, agriculture, high-technology industries (especially in the entertainment sector), automobiles, food, drink and tobacco, textiles, steel and shipbuilding. As a former EU trade negotiator, GATT/WTO (especially dispute settlement) is also an important part of Mr. Sutton's practice.

After 16 years as a European civil servant in the European Commission, in 1989 Mr. Sutton joined Forrester, Norall & Sutton, which merged with White & Case in 1998.

Mr. Sutton represents clients before the EU institutions in Brussels, particularly the Commission and European Parliament, national authorities (including the English Courts), the European Courts of Justice in Luxembourg and the EFTA Court in Geneva. Mr. Sutton has also represented a number of governments in dispute settlement procedures before the WTO in Geneva.

Before joining Forrester, Norall & Sutton, Mr. Sutton taught EU law, public international law and UK public law at the University of London from 1967 to 1973. From 1973 to 1989, Mr. Sutton was an official of the EC Commission. He was an EC trade negotiator for the GATT multifibres arrangement and the Tokyo Round, a diplomat in the EC's Tokyo delegation between 1979 and 1984 and legal adviser to the Commission Vice President for the Single Market (Lord Cockfield) between 1985 and 1989. Mr. Sutton's last position in the Commission was as head of the financial services department. Since 1999, Mr. Sutton has been Visiting Professor of European and International Trade Law at University College London. Previously, he was Visiting Lecturer in European Law at the University of Cambridge.

Bars and Courts
Brussels Bar (E list), 2005
England and Wales, 1972

Education
Diploma in Air and Space Law, London University, 1967
Master of Law, London University, 1967
Bachelor of Law, Aberdeen University, 1966

Publications
"The IGC 2007: the European Union comes of age?", European Public Law, Kluwer Law International, Vol. 14, Issue 1, 2008
"Jersey's changing constitutional relationship with Europe", The Jersey Law Review, February 2005
"Jersey and Europe – Taking Stock," Jersey Law Review, July 2002
"The Draft Treaty of Amsterdam - Millstone or Milestone?", The European Policy Centre, 1997
"The European Union Today and Tomorrow: A New Treaty at Amsterdam?", The Jersey Law Review, 1997
Consultant Editor, Butterworths’ All England Law Reports, 1995-1997
"Financial Services and Competition Policy," Butterworths' Competition Law, 1991-1997
"The Intergovernmental Conference of the European Union 1996," The Federal Trust, 1996
"The European Union and the Rule of Law in Maastricht and Beyond," The Federal Trust, 1996
"Preparing for the Next Enlargement - in Issues for the 1996 IGC," Wileys’, 1996
"The European Economic Area (EEA) Agreement," Butterworths', 1993
Consultant Editor, Butterworths’ Annual European Review, 1992-1993
Commentary on EC legal developments in 1992 in Butterworths' Annual European Review, 1993, including:
"Community Priorities" in 1993
"The Maastricht Treaty and the European Community during 1992"
"Agreement on the European Economic Area"
"The Enlargement of the Community"
"The European Community and Eastern Europe"
"The European Community and the United States"
"The Energy Policy of the European Community"
"An Overview of the European Community Financial Services"
"A Survey of the European Community Social Policy"
"EC Insurance Law," Butterworths', 1992
"Relations between the European Community and Japan in 1982 and 1983," Oxford Yearbook of European Law, 1983
"Trends in the Regulation of International Trade in Textiles," Yearbook of World Affairs, 1977
Mr. Sutton is also Editor-in-Chief of Kluwer's International Competition Law Series.

Languages
English
French
Japanese
Spanish

Citizenship
United Kingdom