Fountain Court Chambers
Barristers
John Mehrzad KC
- Phone+44 (0)20 7583 3335
- Email[email protected]
- Profilewww.fountaincourt.co.uk
Position
Called 2005 (Inner Temple). Silk 2020. Sport, Commercial and Employment law. Chair UK Athletics Review (2019/20), Chair British Equestrian Federation Review (2017/18), Review of British Cycling Panellist (2016/17), FA Discipline Chair (2014-2022), Advocate London 2012 Olympic Games and Glasgow 2014 Commonwealth Games, Tokyo 2020 mentor, Sports Resolution Panellist (from 2012), CAS Legal Aid Panellist (from 2015), League Managers Association Panellist, Professional Cricket Association Panellist.
Notable cases: Credico v. Lambert [2022] EWCA Civ 864 [2021] EWHC 1504; Create Financial Management v. Lee [2020] 1 WLR 78; Brown v. Neon Management [2019] IRLR 30; Carreras v. United First Partners Research [2018] EWCA Civ 323; Bourne Rail v. Ashton [2018] EWHC 910; BTP v. Hill UKEAT/0445/15/BA; Game Retail v. Laws UKEAT/0188/14/D4; Charlesworth v. Amey UKEATPA/0326/13/MC; Tavistock School v. Richards UKEAT/0244/13/SM; Stuart v. London City Airport UKEATPA/1651/11/MAA; Blazevic v. Hayashibara UKEATPA/0738/11/CEA; Humphreys v. Norilsk Nickel [2010] IRLR 976; Hunt v. Legal & General UKEATPA/1531/10/DM.
Career
Call 2005. Silk 2020.
Memberships
British Association of Sport and Law, Employment Law Bar Association, Free Representation Unit.
Education
Keble College, Oxford University; University of Nantes, France; Trinity College, Dublin; BPP, London.
Personal
Inner Temple Governing Bencher, Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators, Major Scholarships (GDL and BVC), Bar European Group Peter Duffy Scholarship.
Working French; basic Italian, German and Farsi.
Leisure
Running, rowing, history, politics and travel.