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Russell-Cooke LLP

8 BEDFORD ROW, LONDON, WC1R 4BX, ENGLAND
Tel:
Work 020 7405 6566
Fax:
Fax 020 7831 2565
DX:
112 CHANCERY LANE
Web:
www.russell-cooke.co.uk
Email:

Matthew Bosworth

Tel:
Work +44 207 440 4840
Email:
Russell-Cooke LLP

Work Department

Regulation.

Position

Partner in regulation department specialising in professional regulation, disciplinary tribunals, sports law, criminal litigation and contentious intellectual property. Retained by the Solicitors Regulation Authority, the Institute of Legal Executives, Media Protection Services Ltd, Federation Against Copyright Theft Ltd and British Sky Broadcasting Ltd. Advocate with higher rights of audience in all courts. Professional regulatory and disciplinary work on behalf of both professional bodies and individual members of the professions. Sports law practitioner with extensive experience of contentious intellectual property rights matters. Cases include: MPS Ltd v Darroch & Darroch [2011]; R v Cairns [2009]; Murphy v Media Protection Services [2007]; R v Bennett and others [2007]; British Sky Broadcasting Ltd v McGowan & Others [2005]; and FA Premier League v Jose Mourinho [2005].

Career

Trained Attridge Law/Russell-Cooke LLP; qualified 2005; partner Russell-Cooke LLP 2009 to date.

Education

St George’s College (Weybridge); Middlesex University (LLB Hons).

Practice Areas

Intellectual property; Sport; Professional disciplinary and regulatory law (including police law)

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