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Ashley Cukier

Ashley Cukier

Call: 2013

Barrister

"Ashley frankly has no weaknesses. He grasps the issues with speed, his written work is beyond outstanding, and he is always there to take the pressure off you when you need it."

Chambers & Partners 2025

"He approaches cases with meticulous attention to detail and invests considerable time and effort in understanding the intricacies of the situation."

Chambers & Partners 2025

"Ashley is hard-working and thorough and the quality of his drafting is very high. He is good at engaging with clients. As an advocate, he is well prepared and able to cope well under pressure."

Legal 500 2025

"Ashley is measured and persuasive. He reads the panel well and he pitches it perfectly. In terms of football, he knows the regs inside and out."

Legal 500 2025

"A junior with a meticulous eye."

Legal 500 2025

"Ashley is remarkable in his knowledge of sports regulations and how they interplay with the law more generally."

Chambers & Partners 2024

"Personable, smart, responsive, very thorough in his approach, and he’s good at coming up with creative solutions to unusual problems."

Legal 500 2024

“Ashley provides clear and practical advice, is great with clients, is excellent on strategy, and a pleasure to work with.”

Legal 500 2023

"He is very responsive and his advice is practical."

Chambers & Partners

"An extremely bright barrister, committed to achieving the right result for the client."

Legal 500

"He knows the football regulatory landscape well, which is invaluable when considering insolvency issues in that context given the extent of football-specific provisions in the area."

Legal 500

"He is technically outstanding." "He is very calm and assured and is extremely good with clients."

Chambers & Partners

“Assured and skilful, an eloquent orator on his feet, and trusted by our team”.

Legal 500

Ashley Cukier

"Ashley frankly has no weaknesses. He grasps the issues with speed, his written work is beyond outstanding, and he is always there to take the pressure off you when you need it."

Chambers & Partners 2025

"He approaches cases with meticulous attention to detail and invests considerable time and effort in understanding the intricacies of the situation."

Chambers & Partners 2025

"Ashley is hard-working and thorough and the quality of his drafting is very high. He is good at engaging with clients. As an advocate, he is well prepared and able to cope well under pressure."

Legal 500 2025

"Ashley is measured and persuasive. He reads the panel well and he pitches it perfectly. In terms of football, he knows the regs inside and out."

Legal 500 2025

"A junior with a meticulous eye."

Legal 500 2025

"Ashley is remarkable in his knowledge of sports regulations and how they interplay with the law more generally."

Chambers & Partners 2024

"Personable, smart, responsive, very thorough in his approach, and he’s good at coming up with creative solutions to unusual problems."

Legal 500 2024

“Ashley provides clear and practical advice, is great with clients, is excellent on strategy, and a pleasure to work with.”

Legal 500 2023

"He is very responsive and his advice is practical."

Chambers & Partners

"An extremely bright barrister, committed to achieving the right result for the client."

Legal 500

"He knows the football regulatory landscape well, which is invaluable when considering insolvency issues in that context given the extent of football-specific provisions in the area."

Legal 500

"He is technically outstanding." "He is very calm and assured and is extremely good with clients."

Chambers & Partners

“Assured and skilful, an eloquent orator on his feet, and trusted by our team”.

Legal 500

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Ashley specialises in Commercial Litigation and Arbitration, Civil Fraud and Sports Law. He has been described by Legal 500 as a “Rising Star” for Commercial Litigation; and is recommended as a Leading Junior for Sports Law by Legal 500, Chambers & Partners, and Who’s Who Legal. He was recently named ‘Sports Law Junior of the Year’ at the Legal500 Bar Awards 2023.

Ashley is regularly instructed in commercial disputes in the Commercial Court and Chancery Division, both led and as sole counsel. He has appeared in the Court of Appeal and the Privy Council and regularly appears in FA Rule K Arbitrations and before other sports arbitral panels. Ashley’s cases frequently involve allegations of dishonesty or deceit, and he is regularly sought out to represent clients on applications for urgent injunctive relief. He speaks several languages and is often instructed to assist on cases containing international elements and/or involving questions of foreign law, jurisdiction and enforcement.

Some of his recent and current work includes:

  • The Secretary of State for Health & Social Care v PPE Medpro Limited [2023] (Commercial Court)
    Ashley is instructed as junior counsel (led by Charles Samek KC) by PPE Medpro Ltd in its defence of claims brought in the Commercial Court by the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care in relation to the supply to the DHSC of 25 million sterile surgical gowns in 2020 at the height of the COVID-19 pandemic.
  • X v Y [2023] (AIFC)
    Acting for the Claimant shareholder (led by Rupert D’Cruz KC) in a claim for relief for unfair prejudice (and associated proceedings for injunctive relief), arising out of the diversion of a multi-million dollar commercial opportunity for the purchase of an oilfield in Kazakhstan.
  • The Independent Investigation into Yorkshire County Cricket Club (“YCCC”) [2023]
    Ashley is instructed as Junior Counsel to the Independent Investigation into YCCC, chaired by Mohinderpal Sethi KC, commissioned following widespread media coverage of the club’s mishandling of its investigation into allegations of discrimination and harassment brought by former player Azeem Rafiq.
  • A v B  [2023] (LCIA Arbitration)
    Acting – as junior counsel (led by Jonathan Cohen KC) – for the respondents in an multi-million pound LCIA Arbitration Claim arising under an English Law agreement for the distribution of luxury skincare products in Hong Kong, Macau, and cross-border into China.
  • Fine Art Partners v Robert Newland [2023] (Business & Property Courts (ChD))
    Ashley is instructed as sole counsel for the Claimant, a prominent international financial services provider specialising in the global art market, in its claim against the Defendant, an art consultant and gallery manager. The Claimant brings claims for fraudulent misrepresentation, breach of fiduciary duty and dishonest assistance against the Defendant, arising from a series of frauds overseen by the notorious art fraudster, Inigo Philbrick.
  • Allergy Therapeutics Ltd v Inflamax Research Inc[2019] EWHC 2526 (Comm)
    Led by Charles Samek KC in Commercial Court Proceedings arising from a multimillion dollar clinical study, involving claims for breach of contract, misrepresentation, conspiracy and procuration of the tort of deceit, and a counterclaim for unpaid fees. The case involved complex factual and scientific evidence relating to the clinical drug trial process, methodologies for allergy testing, and the statistical analysis of allergen exposure data.
  • Staechelin & Ors v ACLBDD Holdings Limited & Ors [2019] EWCA Civ 817
    Led by Jonathan Cohen KC representing the Claimants, De Pury & De Pury LLP, in their successful claim for commission on the sale of a Gauguin masterpiece to the Qatari Royal Family for $210 million (upheld subsequently by the Court of Appeal).

Further details of Ashley’s experience can be found in the tabs.

Ashley read Modern Languages at Cambridge, where he received various academic honours and prizes, including the prize for best overall mark in the Modern Languages Tripos, the Departmental prize for excellence in Italian Literature, as well as several college prizes for his performance in his Cambridge Finals. As part of his undergraduate degree, he obtained a Diploma in International Relations and Economics from L’Institut d’études politiques de Paris (Sciences Po). Later, he was awarded a Thouron Scholarship to study at the University of Pennsylvania Law School (Penn Law), where he received a Distinction for the LLM in Private International Law.

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