11-03-2010, 03:52 PM
Pete, fyi many years ago I had a sit down with Alisdair Pepper at Carter Ruck when I was asked by the Coop Bank (then their lawyer) to assist them in litigation against my old bank on arms trade issues. He's No2 partner there, but defamation is not his thing. That speciality is handled by Andrew Stephenson:
Quote:Andrew, a law graduate of University College London, worked for two years at the Stock Exchange before joining the firm in 1982, becoming a partner in 1986.
Andrew's main area of practice is defamation, with over twenty years' experience acting both for claimants (including Government Ministers, Members of Parliament of all the main political parties and sports and music personalities) and for defendants including book, magazine and newspaper publishers and television companies.
Early in his legal career Andrew conducted the successful defence of criminal proceedings where charges had been brought under the Official Secrets Act. In 1987 he represented Martin Packard, a former British Naval Officer, who was awarded £450,000 damages for libel, a record at the time.
Andrew acted for Norman Tebbit, as Chairman of the Conservative Party, in libel proceedings against the Guardian. He also successfully defended Lord Tebbit when he was sued by the then Leader of Derbyshire County Council. Andrew acted for Norman Lamont when he was Chancellor of the Exchequer in high profile landlord and tenant proceedings.
Andrew has advised Boris Berezovsky in several cases, including an action brought against the Chairman of Alfa Bank, Mikhail Fridman. He also acted for Mr Berezovsky when the Russian government twice sought his extradition from the UK. Andrew also represented Mohammed Jameel against Wall Street Journal Europe.
Andrew has handled numerous leading defamation cases where jurisdiction has been an issue, including Papandreou -v- Time Magazine, Bachchan -v- Dagens Nyheter (Swedish publication), Schapira -v- Ha'aretz (Israeli publication) and Berezovsky -v- Forbes, in which the House of Lords upheld the Russian businessman's right to proceed in England against the US publishers.
Andrew has frequently been consulted to give pre-publication advice on defamation and privacy issues for national and international publications. He also has considerable experience in advising individuals and corporations in handling intrusive or hostile media interest, and advising on reputational issues arising from governmental inquiries and investigations.
The shadow is a moral problem that challenges the whole ego-personality, for no one can become conscious of the shadow without considerable moral effort. To become conscious of it involves recognizing the dark aspects of the personality as present and real. This act is the essential condition for any kind of self-knowledge.
Carl Jung - Aion (1951). CW 9, Part II: P.14