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Alexandra Marzec
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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
(17 Oct 2002)