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Robert Deacon has broad experience in chancery,
commercial and business related civil litigation with specialist
knowledge in intellectual property and media and entertainment. His
expertise extends to banking and guarantees, partnership, construction,
fraud and asset-tracing and professional negligence. Primarily known as
a litigator he has undertaken many heavily contested often high profile
trials and devoted a substantial part of his practice to specialist
advice work. He is an experienced interlocutory litigator particularly
in relation to freezing and search orders and other interim remedies.
His intellectual property practice ranges from trade marks to
copyright, patents and design right work and he has extensive
experience of defamation and privacy claims. He has chaired and for
some years delivered lectures at the annual intellectual property law
and sports law conferences for London Legal Training. His lecture
topics have included privacy and image rights, performers' rights,
performers' royalties, database rights and freedom of movement of
goods.
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