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<link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="../Style/ie.css"> <title>5 Raymond Buildings Member page</title> <!-- <style> body, td { font-family: Arial; font-size: 12px; } .lines { background-color: black; } </style> --> <table border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" width="100%"> <!-- <tr align=right> <td><a href="#" onclick="javascript:window.print();window.close();return false;">Print</a></td> </tr> --> <tr> <td background="../images/photos/DBrowneweb.jpg"><img src="../images/cp.gif" width="100%" height="300" galleryimg="no"></td> </tr> <tr> <td> <table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="400"> <tr> <td width="37" rowspan="2"><img src="../images/cp.gif" width="37" height="1"></td> <td> <p><span class="clsContentTitle"> Desmond Browne QC</span> <p><hr style="color: #000000; height=1px;"> <p><b>Career</b> <br>1969 Called to the Bar <br>1990 Silk<br>1991 Year of Recorder <p><b>Subject Areas</b> <br>Contempt<br>Copyright<br>Defamation<br>Human Rights<br>Injunctive Relief<br>Intellectual Property<br>Judicial Review<br>Malicious Falsehood<br>Media Law<br>Privacy and Confidence<br>Professional Negligence<br>Reporting Restrictions<p><b>Educational Qualifications</b><br>Eton College<br>New College, Oxford (Open Scholar, B.A. Jurisprudence) <p><hr style="color: #000000; height=1px;"> <p><b>Profile</b> <br>Desmond Browne QC is a leading silk in all areas of media law. He has been involved in a huge number of the most important cases affecting the media over the past three decades. </P> <P>These include <EM>Collins Stewart v. Financial Times</EM>, <EM>Berezovsky v. Fridman & Alfa Bank</EM>, <EM>McKenna v. Mirror Group Newspapers</EM>, <EM>McKennitt v. Ash</EM>, <EM>Lowe v. Associated Newspapers</EM>, <EM>Turner v. News Group</EM>, <EM>Al Amoudi v. Brisard</EM>, <EM>Douglas v Hello!,</EM> <EM>Naomi Campbell v MGN</EM>, <EM>Hamilton v Al Fayed</EM>, <EM>Berezovsky v Forbes</EM>, <EM>Spycatcher</EM>, <EM>Kiam v MGN</EM> and <EM>Loutchansky v Times Newspapers</EM>.</P> <P>He is Joint Head of Chambers (with <A href="http://www.5rb.com/members/member.asp?member=5" target="_parent">Adrienne Page QC</A>). Desmond Browne chaired the Bar Council Group on the Legal Services Act and is Bar Council Chairman for 2009.</P> <p><b>Verbatim</b> <table border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" width="363"> <tr> <td width="30" valign="top"><img SRC="../images/quote_open.gif"></td> <td style="text-align: justify;"><b><P>This “outrageously smart” player is “relentless in pursuit of his case, applying the legal equivalent of Chinese water torture to his opponents.” </P> <P>from 2009 <A href="http://www.chambersandpartners.com/" target="_blank">Chambers and Partners </A></P> <P> </P></b></td> <td width="30" valign="bottom"><img SRC="../images/quote_close.gif"></td> </tr> </table> <p><hr style="color: #000000; height=1px;"><p><b>Testimonials</b><br><P>'the inexhaustible Browne “is busier than ever.” According to one source, “he is a formidable advocate whose imposing presence does not fail to impress even the most difficult of judges and clients.” In Northern Rock v Financial Times, he appeared for the defendant in proceedings brought by the building society following the publication of the memorandum drawn up for interested bidders. Clients are also impressed by “canny, class act” </P> <P><A href="http://www.chambersandpartners.com/" target="_blank">Chambers and Partners</A></P> <P>The 'straight-talking’ Desmond Browne QC whose ‘ unflappable advocacy skills and legal knowledge are unrivalled’ is ‘ an imposing figure in a courtroom’ and the ‘ silk of choice’ for many solicitors... He successfully acted for the claimant in <EM>McKennitt v Ash</EM>, which established that public figures are entitled to a private life.</P> <P><A href="http://www.legal500.com/books/l500" target="_blank">Legal 500</A></P><p><b>Memberships</b><br>Bar Council as Gray's Inn representative <!-- Output publications --> <p><b>Publications</b><br/>The Law of Privacy and the Media (26 Jan 2006) <p><hr style="color: #000000; height=1px;"> <p><a href="vCards/DesmondBrowne.vcf">Download vCard</a> <p> </td> </tr> <tr> <td></td> </tr> </table> </td> </tr> </table>
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