Alexandra Marzec

Called

1990 Called to the Bar

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.

Areas of work

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

Career

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.

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

The Law of Privacy and the Media

(26 Jan 2006)

Education

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

Featured cases

Veliu v Mazrekaj
[2006] EWHC 1710 (QB); [2007] 1 WLR 495
Defamation - Offer of Amends - Amount of compensation payable - limited publication
Turkot & Global GOLD Holding v Oxus Gold & Trew
[2006] EWHC 3361 (QB)
Libel - Trial of preliminary issues - Whether suitable for trial by judge alone - s.69(4) Supreme Court Act - Whether appropriate to order in the claim
Curistan v Times Newspapers Ltd (CA)
[2008] EWCA Civ 432; The Times, 6 May 2008
Defamation - Libel - Meaning - Qualified privilege - Repetition rule - Single-meaning rule - Preliminary issue