Experience and Specialities include Corporate and Company Law, Financial Services Regulation, Employment Law, Sports Law, Public Law especially Human Rights, EU, Education, Higher Education Law, Immigration and Mental Health Law.

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Bill Rees is a senior, highly experienced and practical corporate, commercial and employment Barrister. Since 1996 Bill has been regularly appearing before various judicial fora to Court of Appeal level, including tribunals (notably ETs, EAT, MHRTs, AIT, IATs) all over England, Wales and Scotland.

Bill has spent a distinguished career spanning some 36 years in the law.

He is the author of ‘The Companies Act 2006: A Commentary on the New Regime’ to be published by Routledge-Cavendish later in 2009.

He has had extensive experience of legal research and university teaching as a Lecturer, Fellow and Professor. He has held various Professorships of Law in England and the USA. He has published widely on Company Law, Financial Services Regulation, Employment Law and Public Law as well as broadcasting and lecturing extensively on these topics. He appears quite regularly on Legal TV.

He has also served as a part-time member of the judiciary for some 9 years of his career as well as having been an independent expert to the European Commission in Brussels on redundancy and discrimination law. He was the founder of the Journal of ADR, Mediation and Negotiation at the turn of the century.

He now focuses exclusively on the Bar, apart from continuing part-time as an ACAS Arbitrator.

Earlier Bill had experience of working in senior positions in several ‘City’ law firms and has served as Head of a University Law School, which he coupled with holding the Stephenson Harwood Professorship of Comparative Law. He has been a Visiting Professor in Comparative Labour Law at the University of Iowa, USA. He was successively the McKenna and then the Field Fisher Waterhouse Visiting Professor of Business Law at Brunel University, and Consultant to the Law Society and the Department of Employment on Financial Services Regulation.

Bill won several impressive awards during his time at Cambridge between 1969 and 1974, including the Evan Lewis Thomas and Wright Rogers Scholarships, and then, while at the Inns of Court School of Law, the Duke of Edinburgh and the Profumo Scholarships, which were awarded by the Inner Temple.

Bill is accredited to accept Public Access work.

Current Professional Membership  Industrial Law Society

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He is the author of ‘The Companies Act 2006: A Commentary on the New Regime’ to be published by Routledge-Cavendish later in 2009.