Direct Access Barrister
Christina Michalos KC A KC (King's Counsel) is a very senior barrister or solicitor advocate who is recognised as an expert and leader in their legal field. A KC will often take the lead on cases, particularly highly complex cases which demand greater experience and expertise.
Direct Access Barrister
Christina Michalos KC A KC (King's Counsel) is a very senior barrister or solicitor advocate who is recognised as an expert and leader in their legal field. A KC will often take the lead on cases, particularly highly complex cases which demand greater experience and expertise.
Christina is a leading specialist in defamation, privacy; media & entertainment law (including data protection and freedom of information); soft intellectual property; and sports law. She is known as a leading practitioner in image rights work and is the author of The Law of Photography and Digital Images (Sweet & Maxwell, 2004). She has a particular interest and expertise in issues arising from internet user generated content and social networking sites.
Christina acted for the Metropolitan Police in the Leveson Inquiry. In addition, she has many years experience in common law litigation and personal injury work, particularly defendant work for the government which gives her a wide and unusual breadth of experience in combination with her media law expertise.
Her full biography can be seen on her Chambers profile at:
http://www.5rb.com/member/christina-michalos/
Area of Law
Defamation
Specialisation
Freedom of Information and Data Protection
Specialisation
Inquests and Public Inquiries
Public inquiries
Intellectual Property
Copyright, confidential information, trade marks. Excluding patents
Media and Entertainment
Specialisation
Sport
Post-graduate Diploma in Sports Law. Some anti-doping work. Considerable experience of privacy related claims particularly in football.
What sort of work do I do?
See under overview
Full biography can be seen on her Chambers profile at:
http://www.5rb.com/member/christina-michalos/
Who do I work for?
Act for both Claimants and Defendants, individuals and corporations.
Willing to consider acting pro bono (for free) in appropriate cases where there is injustice and a meritorious claim or defence.