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John Mehrzad KC

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Position

John specialises in sports law, employment and commercial disputes, across the fields of litigation, domestic and international arbitration as well as cross-border matters.

Chair UK Athletics Review (2019/20), Chair British Equestrian Federation Review (2017/18), Review of British Cycling Panellist (2016/17), FA Arbitrator (from 2015), FA Discipline Chair (2014-2022), Advocate London 2012 Olympic Games and Glasgow 2014 Commonwealth Games, Tokyo 2020 mentor, Sports Resolution Panellist (from 2012), CAS Legal Aid Panellist, League Managers Association Panellist, Professional Cricket Association Panellist.

Notable cases: Credico v. Lambert [2022] EWCA Civ 864 [2021] EWHC 1504; Create Financial Management v. Lee [2020] 1 WLR 78; Brown v. Neon Management [2019] IRLR 30; Carreras v. United First Partners Research [2018] EWCA Civ 323; Bourne Rail v. Ashton [2018] EWHC 910; BTP v. Hill UKEAT/0445/15/BA; Game Retail v. Laws UKEAT/0188/14/D4; Charlesworth v. Amey UKEATPA/0326/13/MC; Tavistock School v. Richards UKEAT/0244/13/SM; Stuart v. London City Airport UKEATPA/1651/11/MAA; Blazevic v. Hayashibara UKEATPA/0738/11/CEA; Humphreys v. Norilsk Nickel [2010] IRLR 976; Hunt v. Legal & General UKEATPA/1531/10/DM.

Career

Call 2005

Silk 2020

Memberships

Employment Law Bar Association, Employment Lawyers Association, Industrial Law Society, British Association of Sport and Law, Free Representation Unit.

Education

Keble College, Oxford; University of Nantes, France; Trinity College, Dublin; BPP, London.

Personal

Inner Temple Governing Bencher, Major Scholarships (GDL and BVC), BEG Peter Duffy Scholarship.

Working French; basic Italian, German and Farsi.

Leisure

Leisure: running, rowing, history, politics and travel.