Chambers of Jonathan Hirst QC and Nicholas Green QC
7-8 ESSEX STREET, LONDON, WC2R 3LD, ENGLAND
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Marie Demetriou
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Work Department
EU Law.
Position
Barrister specialising in EU law, competition law, public law/human rights and sports law: Cases include: BSkyB v Competition Commission; the Premier League/satellite decodes litigation; R v Budimir; Barclays Bank v Competition Commission; ABB & ors v National Grid; Crehan v Inntrepreneur (HL); Littlewoods and Argos v OFT (CA); R (Derwin) v Attorney General (challenge to the hunting ban, HL); Viking Line v ITF (ECJ); Case C-420/07 Apostolides v Orams.
Career
Qualified 1995; Middle Temple; lecturer in law, St Hilda’s College, Oxford 1995-96; Referendaire to Judge Edward, Court of Justice of the European Communities 1999-2001; junior counsel to the Crown (B Panel) 2004. Notable publications include: ‘Sports Law’, co-authored with Michael Beloff QC and Tim Kerr, Hart Publishing 1999. ‘References to the European Court’, 2nd edition with David Anderson (Sweet and Maxwell) 2002; contribution to ‘Human Rights: The 1998 Act and the European Convention’, by Grosz, Beatson and Duffy (Sweet and Maxwell); member of the editorial boards of ‘European Law Reports’, ‘International Sports Law Review’ (Sweet and Maxwell), ‘World Competition’ (Kluwer Law International).
Languages
Greek, French.
Member
Bar European Group (committee member); Administrative Law Bar Association; Lawyers for Liberty; Justice; European Law Association; COMBAR.
Education
Campion School, Athens; St Hilda’s College, Oxford (1993 BA Hons Jurisprudence; 1994 BCL 1st Class); Bar Vocational Course (1995):
Practice Areas
Administrative and public law; EU and competition; Sport
