Alexandra Marzec

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Profile

Alex practises in all areas of media law and has been instructed in numerous high-profile and/or significant libel, privacy and confidence cases including representing media defendants in cases brought by Jonathan Aitken, Mohammed Fayed, Marco Materazzi (Italian defender suing on alleged comments to Zinedine Zidane in World Cup Final), Eastenders actor Mohammed George, ex-BB contestant Lisa Jeynes, Ashley Cole and Richard Desmond. She has also represents claimants, and has acted, amongst others, for David Blunkett, Britney Spears, Nicole Appleton and for a little-known Albanian journalist, Mohammed Veliu, who was awarded the highest-ever award of compensation under the Offer of Amends regime. 

Career

Called

1990 Called to the Bar

Education

Sacred Heart High School, Hammersmith
University of Warwick: LL.B. First Class Honours
Boalt Hall School of Law, University of California at Berkeley

Areas of work

  • Defamation
  • Privacy and Confidence
  • Public Access
  • Contempt
  • Human Rights
  • Malicious Falsehood
  • Media Law


Verbatim

… ‘a good communicator’ and gets hers points across effortlessly and thanks to her ‘sensitivity and clear thinking’ Chambers 2008.

“Highly regarded in libel and privacy issues” Chambers 2009.


Testimonials

As junior counsel in Curistan v Times Newspapers "is increasingly prominent in this area." Legal 500 2008

"...clearly tenacious and an incredibly slick operator - she knows what she is doing and gets on with it" Chambers 2010

 

Languages

Conversational Polish.


Publications

(26 Jan 2006)

Cases

Defamation

Bowman v MGN Ltd

[2010] EWHC 895 (QB) 26/04/2010

Curistan v Times Newspapers Ltd (CA)

[2008] EWCA Civ 432; The Times, 6 May 2008 30/04/2008

Jeynes v News Magazines Limited & Anor

[2008] EWCA Civ 130 31/01/2008

McBride v Body Shop International plc

[2007] EWHC 1658 (QB) 10/07/2007

Turkot & Global GOLD Holding v Oxus Gold & Trew

[2006] EWHC 3361 (QB) 15/12/2006

Veliu v Mazrekaj

[2006] EWHC 1710 (QB); [2007] 1 WLR 495 11/07/2006

Crossland v Wilkinson Hardware Stores Ltd

[2005] EWHC 481 (QB) 23/03/2005

Bataille v Newland & Ors

[2002] EWHC 1692 (QB) 31/07/2002

Aitken v Preston and Others

[1997] EMLR 415 15/05/1997

Privacy and Confidence

P & Others v Quigley

[2008] EWHC 1051 (QB) 16/05/2008

Sports Law

R (Mullins) v Appeal Board of the Jockey Club

[2005] EWHC 2197 (Admin); [2006] ISLR, SLR-30; (2006) ACD 2; The Times, 24 October 2005 17/10/2005

Harassment

Crossland v Wilkinson Hardware Stores Ltd

[2005] EWHC 481 (QB) 23/03/2005

Human Rights

R (Mullins) v Appeal Board of the Jockey Club

[2005] EWHC 2197 (Admin); [2006] ISLR, SLR-30; (2006) ACD 2; The Times, 24 October 2005 17/10/2005

Injunctive Relief

P & Others v Quigley

[2008] EWHC 1051 (QB) 16/05/2008

Malicious Falsehood

Crossland v Wilkinson Hardware Stores Ltd

[2005] EWHC 481 (QB) 23/03/2005

Media Law

Bowman v MGN Ltd

[2010] EWHC 895 (QB) 26/04/2010

P & Others v Quigley

[2008] EWHC 1051 (QB) 16/05/2008

Curistan v Times Newspapers Ltd (CA)

[2008] EWCA Civ 432; The Times, 6 May 2008 30/04/2008

Jeynes v News Magazines Limited & Anor

[2008] EWCA Civ 130 31/01/2008

McBride v Body Shop International plc

[2007] EWHC 1658 (QB) 10/07/2007

Turkot & Global GOLD Holding v Oxus Gold & Trew

[2006] EWHC 3361 (QB) 15/12/2006

Aitken v Preston and Others

[1997] EMLR 415 15/05/1997

Public Law

R (Mullins) v Appeal Board of the Jockey Club

[2005] EWHC 2197 (Admin); [2006] ISLR, SLR-30; (2006) ACD 2; The Times, 24 October 2005 17/10/2005

News

26 Apr 2010

Les Mis star wins libel compensation

But actor Simon Bowman ordered to pay majority of costs after rejecting settlement offers

4 Nov 2009

Cole settles privacy claim

Footballer’s claim over “kiss-and-tell” newspaper articles ends with settlement

24 Sep 2009

5RB's juniors: the Legal 500 verdict

What the legal directory had to say about 5RB's junior barristers

23 Jul 2009

Tom Bower wins Desmond libel case

Jury verdict in favour of defendant author over comments about Express owner

7 Jul 2009

Richard Desmond libel trial stopped

Trial of claim against Conrad Black biographer to restart on Monday

2 Apr 2009

George wins 75K libel damages

Former Eastenders actor successful in claim against The Sun

24 Mar 2009

Eastenders actor's libel trial begins

The Sun defends girlfriend abuse allegations

1 Feb 2008

Big Brother's Lisa loses libel appeal

Court of Appeal dismisses appeal on 'transsexual' meaning

8 Nov 2007

5RB tops Chambers & Partners review

20 Barristers rated and recommended in the new annual survey

20 Sep 2007

5RB tops Legal 500

20 Barristers rated and recommended in Defamation, Privacy, Intellectual Property, Sport and Media & Entertainment Law

24 Oct 2006

5RB tops Chambers & Partners review

Nineteen barristers recommended in Annual Survey

27 Sep 2006

5RB tops Legal 500 survey

Twenty barristers recommended across core practice areas

24 Oct 2005

Chambers' Review: 5RB top again

20 barristers recommended for Media, Entertainment, Defamation, Privacy, Intellectual Property & Sports Law

17 Oct 2005

Jockey Club sees off challenge

Appeal Board is not amenable to Judicial Review

21 Sep 2005

5RB tops annual Legal 500 Review

17 barristers named as leaders in their field

5 Nov 2004

5RB top in Chambers & Partners Review

Seventeen 5RB members ranked

4 Oct 2004

Martin O’Neill wins libel damages from the BBC

Book allegations withdrawn

24 Sep 2004

5RB top in Legal 500 Review

15 barristers named as leaders in their field


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