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Stephen is a dispute resolution solicitor with higher rights of audience. He qualified in 2000 at Charles Russell LLP and joined Teacher Stern in September 2009. He is a fluent Spanish speaker and a member of the British Spanish Law Association and British & Colombian Chamber of Commerce.
About half of Stephen's practice is as a general commercial dispute resolution lawyer, particularly in contractual but also in shareholder, regulatory and professional indemnity disputes. The other half of his practice is in the specialist areas below.
IT
• acting for an IT company in a software licensing and exclusivity dispute in development of the NHS National Care Records Service
• acting for a US technology company in a dispute concerning 'scope creep' in roll-out of its proprietary web-based procurement system
• representing a software house in a claim (including interim injunction) by a major bank alleging copyright infringement in two trading products
• representing a TV channel in a dispute with its television platform for failing to provide a
home-to-studio return path for gaming.
Telecoms
• advising a major telco against various downstream network operators claiming transit and termination charges for traffic flowing out of the client's network because it was hacked by fraudsters
• representing an ISP in a judicial review of the police's ability to intercept emails
• acting against a shipping line on behalf of a telco whose subsea cable was severed by an anchor
• AIT : acting for three telcos in separate disputes concerning alleged artificial inflation of traffic
• Regulatory : representing various telcos in disputes with Ofcom and PhonepayPlus
Competition law
• acting for the claimant in the landmark case of Crehan -v- Inntrepreneur Pub Company
• defending a UK mobile network operator against alleged abuse of a dominant position in refusing to configure its switches to recognise a telco's number range
• representing one of the telcos accused of an anti-competitive agreement in the Cityhook saga, including the appeal to the Competition Appeal Tribunal of the OFT decision, the judicial review of the Competition Appeal Tribunal decision and the Chancery damages action.
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