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- Mark_Stephens_(solicitor) abstract "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 HowardKennedyFsi (sic). Stephens is also a broadcaster, mediator, and writer. He is also, Chairman of: Contemporary Art Society, Design and Artists Copyright Society, the advisory board of the Programme in Comparative Media Law and Policy at Oxford University, and the Board of Governors at University of East London. President of the Commonwealth Lawyers Association. Stephens is also an independent director of the Independent Schools Inspectorate. And patron of International Alert.Earlier in his life he wished to become an actor, but then decided to study law at North East London Polytechnic (now the University of East London), 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 miners' 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 and provided advice to the "McLibel two", activists who were being sued by McDonald's. In 1999, his law firm merged with Finers to form Finers Stephens Innocent, with Stephens becoming the head of the international and media department, a position he continues to hold today. During the next decade he was involved in several cases defending the publishers of online material (both old and new media firms) against charges of libel bought against them. The Times in 2008, described him as both a "passionate supporter of human rights" and "one of the best advocates for freedom of expression". In 2010, he began to represent Julian Assange, the founder of the whistleblower website, WikiLeaks, defending him against extradition to Sweden.As well as pursuing legal cases, Stephens has sat on many charitable, regulatory, government and academic committees including those related to contemporary art, education, media law, libel law and human rights. In 2009, he was appointed the Chairman of the Governors at the University of East London, his university alma mater, which awarded him an honorary doctorate in law in 2001. He has also assisted politicians draft legislation, in the UK in the 1990s regarding the regulation of the press and in Romania in 2005 regarding freedom of information laws. Stephens frequently appears in the UK media, in the 1990s he was a legal correspondent for Sky TV and he has featured regularly in both print and on television during his career, commenting on cases he has been involved in and others. He has also contributed to two legal books and is on the editorial board of three legal journals.".
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