FSI Feed

Philip Rubens comments in the Guardian on the Former Cazenove broker facing jail for insider dealing

Thu, 11 Mar 2010 11:06:25 GMT

Philip Rubens comments in The Guardian on the ex-Cazenove partner, Malcolm Calvert, found guilty of insider dealing, which is the third successful prosecution of insider trading by the FSA.

The Guardian reports on Ian Ryan's case for the SRA against a solicitor Timothy Drukker for his conduct of Shaun Wright-Phillips' transfer to Chelsea from Manchester City in July 2005.

Wed, 10 Mar 2010 17:15:26 GMT

FSI's Ian Ryan appeared on behalf of the Solicitors Regulation Authority to take disciplinary proceedings against a solicitor Timothy Drukker for his conduct in Shaun Wright-Phillips' transfer to Chelsea from Manchester City in July 2005.

To find out more read the full article and the findings report

Mark Stephens commented in various radio interviews about Jon Venables

Mon, 08 Mar 2010 10:17:24 GMT

Mark Stephens comments on BBC News 24, BBC Radio Wales, BBC Radio 5, BBC Radio Scotland and the Henry Bonsu Show regarding Jon Venables being sent back to prison over alleged child porn offences.

Robert Lands - Interviewed on Radio Five Live about Band Names

Thu, 04 Mar 2010 15:45:47 GMT

Robert Lands was interviewed on Radio Five Live in connection with the ownership of a band's name

The Express & Star reports on Ian Ryan's case for the SRA against solicitor Ashton Doherty for his conduct of Nwankwo Kanu's transfer from Arsenal to West Bromwich Albion

Fri, 26 Feb 2010 15:03:52 GMT

FSI's Ian Ryan appeared on behalf of the Solicitors Regulatory Authority to take disciplinary proceedings against solicitor, Ashton Doherty for his conduct of footballer Kanu's transfer from Arsenal to West Bromwich Albion.

Click here to read the full article.

Alan Kaufman comments in The Telegraph on Cheryl and Ashley Cole's split.

Thu, 25 Feb 2010 16:11:57 GMT

Alan Kaufman comments in The Telegraph on Cheryl and Ashley Cole's split. Alan said Cole's rumoured move to Spain or Italy could have a bearing on the divorce settlement. He said: "They are both multimillionaires and so it could be a very quick divorce with no claims on either side. They will keep their independent wealth and go their separate ways."

Mark Stephens in The Guardian commenting on privacy law in the aftermath of John Terry

Mon, 22 Feb 2010 11:12:59 GMT

Mark Stephens comments in The Guardian on the aftermath of the John Terry case. Mark said that at the heart of the current questions about celebrity, privacy and the press is the fact that "jurisprudence around privacy is frankly gobbledygook". The privacy law is not set out in a detailed statute but evolves from one case to the next, whether that be due to the European court of human rights, UK judges or "ambulance-chasing claimant lawyers who want to push forward the boundaries of privacy and draw an even greater veil over what goes on".

Mark Stephens comments in The Independent, The Guardian, The Telepgraph and other associated press on Government lawyer objecting to Binyam Mohamed judgment. A top Government lawyer protested over the strength of a judge's "exceptionally damaging" criticism of the British security service

Thu, 11 Feb 2010 12:32:39 GMT

Mark Stephens comments in The Independent, The Guardian, The Telegraph and other associated press on Government lawyer objecting to Binyam Mohamed judgment. A top Government lawyer protested over the strength of a judge's "exceptionally damaging" criticism of the British security service in the Binyam Mohamed case, it was revealed today. Jonathan Sumption QC wrote a letter to the Appeal Court on Monday after seeing a draft copy of the judgment of the Master of the Rolls (MR), Lord Neuberger.

Mark Stephens said: "It is a breach of the long-standing constitutional principle (from the 1637 Ship Money case) that governments may not secretly communicate with the court or with judges."

Mark Stephens comments in The Times and the Guardian on the alleged affair between the England football captain and a team-mate’s ex-girlfriend puts Britain’s privacy laws on the spot.

Mon, 01 Feb 2010 12:15:44 GMT

Mark Stephens comments in The Times and the Guardian on the alleged affair between the England football captain, John Terry and a team-mate’s ex-girlfriend puts Britain’s privacy laws on the spot.
Mark said: “As a result of a failed attempt to gag the world the lawyers have made a drama out of a crisis. It is an object lesson. Effectively the only person John Terry didn’t want to know was his wife. Now everybody knows and she has been cheated on publicly.”

Mark Stephens comments on the front page of The Telegraph, the Times and Associated Press about anonymity surrounding terrorist suspects

Thu, 28 Jan 2010 13:41:03 GMT

Mark Stephens commented on the front page of The Telegraph, The Times and Associated Press about Judges wanting to see terrorist suspects named. Terrorist suspects were exploiting the British legal system to try to "hide behind a cloak of anonymity", the country's most senior judges warned yesterday.

Mark Stephens in The Financial Times commenting on journalists protecting their sources

Mon, 18 Jan 2010 13:55:57 GMT

Mark Stephens comments in The Financial Times on how five news organisations battling to protect their sources won an important victory for press freedom yesterday in the European Court of Human Rights.

Mark Stephens in The Scotsman commenting on the Naked Rambler

Mon, 18 Jan 2010 13:46:17 GMT

Mark Stephens comnmented in the Scotsman about Stephen Gough, the 50-year-old Naked Rambler who has become notorious for walking the length and breadth of Britain wearing only a hat, a pair of stout walking boots and a rucksack, was warned in a Perth court last week that he risks spending the rest of his life in jail unless he puts his clothes on.

Mark Stephens comments in Times Higher Education on how academy's freedoms are threatened as libel law lands scholars in dock.

Thu, 14 Jan 2010 13:16:28 GMT

Mark Stephens comments in Times Higher Education on how academy's freedoms are threatened as libel law lands scholars in dock.

Mark said: "the number of academics and scientists approaching his firm after receiving threats of libel action had risen from none just a few years ago to an average of one a month."

Alan Kaufman was interviewed on BBC London News on "Divorce Gift Vouchers"

Wed, 13 Jan 2010 15:14:42 GMT

Alan Kaufman was interviewied on BBC London early Evening News talking about another law firm Lloyd Platt & Co, who are trying to get business by producing "divorce gift vouchers" that people could buy and pass on to friends, relatives etc. giving them a half hour or an hour's advice.

Mark Stephens comments in the EU Observer on libel tourism

Wed, 13 Jan 2010 15:11:39 GMT

Mark Stephens comments in the EU Observer on East European criminals and politicians taking 'libel tourism' trips to UK.

Mark explained how things have accelerated in the last few years. "It really started off [in the 1950s], with Liberace suing over accusations that he was a homosexual, which he won. This opened the floodgates to a large number of celebrities doing the same thing for many years. This died away more recently when they began to realise that it was cheaper and more effective to spend a million on a PR man than a team of lawyers, and with much less reputational damage,"

Mark Stephens comments in the Daily Mail on Mr X, soccer boss in a brothel

Thu, 24 Dec 2009 11:06:40 GMT

Mark Stephens comments in the Daily Mail on Mr X, soccer boss in a brothel: His name's all over the internet but British press can't identify manager in massage parlour. A married Premier League football manager has been caught visiting a brothel - but the British Press cannot reveal his identity on human rights grounds.

Mark Stephens comments in The Sunday Times on equality chief threatening BBC after ‘kill gays’ debate.

Mon, 21 Dec 2009 10:41:50 GMT

Mark Stephens comments in The Sunday Times on equality chief threatening BBC after ‘kill gays’ debate. The BBC has been warned by the government’s equality czar that it could face legal sanctions if comments made by the public on its website fall foul of Labour’s new anti-discrimination laws.

Mark Stephens comments in The Times on Trafigura accepting £25,000 damages from BBC

Fri, 18 Dec 2009 13:55:26 GMT

Mark Stephens comments in The Times on Trafigura accepting £25,000 damages from BBC over waste dumping allegations. The oil-trading company Trafigura accepted £25,000 libel damages and an apology today over a BBC Newsnight claim that its actions had caused deaths, miscarriages, serious injuries and long-term sickness.

Mark Stephens comments in The Financial Times on the Media win European ruling on press freedom

Wed, 16 Dec 2009 09:41:18 GMT

Mark Stephens comments in the Financial Times on the media win European ruling on press freedom. Five news organisations battling to protect their sources won an important victory for press freedom on Tuesday in the European Court of Human Rights. Mark said: “This reinforces the right of journalists to keep sources anonymous. People so often point to America and to the protection of free speech over there, but in the right to protect journalistic sources the UK is actually further ahead, and this ruling reinforces it.”

Mark Stephens comments in the Sunday Telegraph on the injunction granted by Mr Justice Eady in favour of Tiger Woods

Mon, 14 Dec 2009 12:02:19 GMT

Mr Justice Eady, who has earned a reputation in recent years for his tough line against the media in privacy cases involving the rich and famous in recent years. Privacy laws are far tougher in Britain than the US. Mark Stephens, the leading privacy lawyer, told The Sunday Telegraph yesterday that under the law Mr Justice Eady had no choice but to grant Woods an injunction, but he questioned the credibility of the action by the golfer and his lawyers.