Jonathan H Marks

Environment; EU; International; Human Rights.

Barrister and a CEDR accredited mediator specialising in EU/environment, banking law and public international law. EU/environment work includes: R v Secretary of State for the Environment ex p First Corporate Shipping (ECJ 07/11/00, New Law Digest 800116901); Olivieri v Commission (Court of First Instance, Jan 2000 and April 2003); advised (with Philippe Sands QC) both an international environmental organisation and a foreign government on issues arising from Directive 96/29/EURATOM on radioactive substances; advising Central and Eastern European states on the implementation of EU environmental law. Public international law includes: R v Bow Street Magistrates ex p Pinochet (No3) [1999] 2 WLR 827 HL instructed on behalf of Human Rights Watch, an intervenor; advised (with Ian Geering QC and Philippe Sands QC) by various associated South African corporations in relation to claims arising from the expropriation of diamond mines by the Government of Lesotho; advised on the implications of the dissolution of the former Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia and the Succession Agreement for the distribution of trust assets; and banking work includes: Scottish Equitable v Virdee [1999] 1 FLR 863 CA; Barclays Bank v Coleman [2000] 1 All ER 385 CA; instructed by one of the few remaining mutual building societies in a dispute about its entitlement to close the accounts of customers who nominate or vote for election to the board a carpet-bagger (who wished to demutualise the society); instructed to consider the implications of the Human Rights Act 1998 for financial regulation. Recent public law cases include R (on the application of Robertson) ex p Wakefield DC 2001 regarding the disclosure of information by the electoral registrar and the scope of the EU Data Protection Directive and of ECHR Art 8; retained in the USA as international law expert on the implications of the war in Iraq.

The Glasgow Academy; Worcester College, Oxford (1990 BA, 1991 BCL, 1995 MA).