Robert Deacon
11 Stone Buildings

Speaker - Sport And The Law - The 2010 Conference
The Ninth Annual Sport And The Law Conference

Robert Deacon is recommended in Legal 500 2008 as a leading barrister in the areas of intellectual property and media, sports & entertainment, where he is described by clients as 'our first port of call for a junior barrister on IP matters' and 'a bright star' of 'exceptional quality'.

Robert 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 also chaired and for some years delivered lectures at the annual media, entertainment and intellectual property law and sports law conferences for London Legal Training.

Robert along with Nigel Lipton and Robert Pinker is the author of the Privacy and Personality Rights - Commercial Exploitation and Protection published in March 2010 by Jordan Publishing. This is the first book on the market to draw together the different strands of law dealing with the protection and exploitation of the celebrity persona.