People Associated with the University of East London: Academics of the University of East London, Alumni of the University of East London

Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 35. Chapters: Academics of the University of East London, Alumni of the University of East London, Damon Albarn, Ken Russell, Mark Stephens, Marina and the Diamonds, Garry Bushell, Jake and Dinos Chapman, Tinchy Stryder, Hilary Armstrong, Rufus May, Peter Berresford Ellis, Edison James, Sonam Kapoor, Rudi Vis, Daljit Dhaliwal, Chris Knight, Gemma Gibbons, Kode9, Mike Pittilo, Jeffrey Lawal-Balogun, Carole Satyamurti, Alexander Trotman, Baron Trotman, David C.H. Austin, Nigel Benson, Mark Frith, Lizbeth Goodman, Margaret Prosser, Baroness Prosser, Jamie Drummond, James Mackay, John Smith, John Strawson, Susan Price, Graham Barnfield, Roger Ashton-Griffiths, Mary Boyle, Barbara Taylor. Excerpt: Mark Howard Stephens CBE (born 7 April 1957) is a British solicitor specialising in media law, intellectual property rights and human rights with the firm Finers Stephens Innocent (FSI). Earlier in his life he wished to become an actor, but then decided to study law at North East London Polytechnic, graduating in 1978 and then studied further in Brussels, being admitted as a solicitor in 1982. He started his career as a lawyer providing advice to artists and soon established his own practice with a partner. He rose to prominence following a case in 1987, where he defended an artist who had reproduced British bank notes, in contravention of British law, but successfully defended him, in part by using the media in the artist's favour. He gained a reputation as the patron solicitor of previously lost causes following this case and others where he defended artists' freedom of expression, as well as representing the leaders of the miner's strike of 1984-85 and James Hewitt when allegations of his affair with Diana, Princess of Wales first emerged. During the 1990s he worked on cases involving the occupation of the Brent Spar oil platform, the c...