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KUALA LUMPUR: The Honourable Michael J. Beloff QC, a prominent English Queen's Counsel will speak at the Malaysian Law Conference in October 2007 on "Fundamental freedoms under a written constitution".

Once described as "a superstar silk who does a lot of things very well" by the Chambers UK, Beloff's areas of practice are concentrated on administrative and public law, commercial law including arbitration, employment, media and entertainment, European, human rights, immigration, education and sports law.

The Chambers UK has also called Beloff “terrific”, “a showman” and extolled his “incredible brainpower”. Commentators admire his “quietly competent, not at all rambunctious style of advocacy.” Legal 500 also regards Michael as “first-rate”, remarking on his “sharp advocacy and immense experience.”

(To join Michael Beloff in the Malaysian Law Conference, please click here to download the registration form. Please note the early bird registration period is up to July 30)

Beloff's CV

Born in 1942 and educated at the Dragon School, Eton (King's Scholar, Captain of the School and Editor of the Eton College Chronicle), and Magdalen College, Oxford (Open Demy), Beloff has degrees in history (first class) and law from the University of Oxford, where he was President of the Oxford Union and a member of the Oxford Union Debating Tour of the USA in 1964. He was the HWC Davis Prizeman (History) in 1961. He is an FRSA, FICPD, Academician of the Academy of Learned Societies for the Social Sciences.

He is an Honorary Fellow of the Institute of Advanced Legal Studies, an Honorary Fellow of Trinity College, Oxford and has an honorary doctorate from Farleigh Dickinson University (USA). He is a visiting Professor of Law at Buckingham University. He was also the President of Trinity College, Oxford from 1996-2006.

Beloff is recognised by both the leading independent legal directories, The Legal 500 2006 and Chambers UK 2007, as a leading silk in administrative & public, education and sports law. The Legal 500 also ranks Michael for his human rights and immigration practice, with Chambers UK further recognising him as a leading silk in the fields of employment and EU/Competition.

Beloff was called to the Bar by Gray's Inn in November 1967 (Gerald Moody Scholar, Atkin Scholar), became a Queen's Counsel in 1981, a Recorder of the Crown Court from 1984-95, a Master of the Bench of Gray's Inn in 1988 (Vice-Treasurer elect in 2006), a Deputy High Court Judge from 1989-96 (designated to sit in the Crown Office list), Senior Ordinary Judge of the Court Of Appeal of Jersey and Guernsey from 2005 (Judge of the Court of Appeal of Jersey and Guernsey from 1995) and a Member of the Court of Arbitration for Sport ("CAS") from 1996.

He was on the CAS ad hoc panel for dispute resolution during the Olympic Games at Atlanta in 1996, at Sydney 2000, at Athens in 2004 and the Commonwealth Games in Kuala Lumpur in 1999, Manchester in 2002, and Melbourne in 2006. He was also on a special Arbitral panel for the FIFA World Cup in 2002, on a CAS ad hoc panel for the FIFA World Cup in 2006 and the disciplinary panel for the Cricket World Cup 2007. He has been President of the Interception of Communications Tribunal (now the Regulation of Investigatory Policies) (Guernsey) since 2005, Chairman of the Interception of Communications Tribunal (now the
Regulation of Investigatory Policies) (Jersey) since 2004 and Deputy Chairman of the Information Commission (National Security) U.K. since 2000.

He was the first Chairman of the Administrative Law Bar Association from 1986-9 and is now a Vice-President and Emeritus Chairman. He was joint head of Chambers at 4-5 Gray's Inn Square from 1992-2000, before moving back in 2000 to Blackstone Chambers, his original set (then 2 Hare Court).

More than 400 of the cases in which he was counsel have been reported in various Law Reports. He has appeared more than 40 times in the House of Lords, ten times in the Privy Council, ten times in the European Court of Justice, eight times in the European Court of Human Rights, and in Courts in Hong Kong, Bermuda, Kuala Lumpur, Kuching, Gibraltar, Singapore, Trinidad, Brunei and Belfast; he has also been instructed by lawyers from the USA, Scotland, Bangladesh, Sarawak, India, Sabah, Malawi, Greece, New Zealand and France. He has appeared in three major public inquiries: Crown Agents (1979-81); the Brixton riots (1981) and the Sentosa cable car disaster (Singapore) (1983). His clients have included various departments of State, foreign governments, major national and international corporations, public authorities, sports bodies and clubs, trade unions, pressure groups, and prominent politicians, writers, and sportsmen (Olympic and world champions) etc. He is Foreign Consultant to the Law Counsel, Dacca, Bangladesh.

He has appeared in several international arbitrations (in London, Brussels, Geneva and Monte Carlo), and sat himself as a commercial arbitrator under the auspices of the ICC, LCIA, and Geneva Chamber of Commerce as well as an ad hoc arbitrator. He has given expert evidence on English law and practice for the purpose of proceedings in various states in the USA, in the Irish Republic, in the Republic of South Africa, France and Switzerland. He has carried out inquiries for Oxford University into alleged plagiarism, for two television companies, Channel 4 and Carlton, into the making of two controversial broadcasts, and for the Rugby Football Union into alleged racism. He has been identified in various legal publications at one time or another as a leading figure in the fields of public, local government, commercial, defamation, insurance, arbitration, civil liberties, agricultural, EU, sport, human rights, environmental, education, immigration and employment law.

Other Posts:

He is a Steward of the Royal Automobile Club, Chairman of the Code of Conduct Commission of the ICC, Ethics Commissioner to London 2012 and President of the British Association of Sport and Law. He is a member of the Advisory Council of the Environmental Law Foundation, a member of the Sports Broadcasting Monitoring Committee, a Trustee of the Oxford Union Literary and Debating Trust, a Trustee of Oxford University Student Publications, a member of the Advisory Council of CIDA (South Africa’s first free university), Chairman of the ANA (Japan’s second largest airline) UK Advisory Council, a member of the University of Melbourne International Sports Law Advisory Panel and a former member of the Advisory Councils of the Oxford Centre for Socio-Legal Studies and the Oxford Centre for European and Comparative Law, a member of the Advisory Council of the Beloff Institute for Liberty at the University of Buckingham and an Honorary Vice-President of the Oxford University Law Society.

Credits:

Among his many credits, he was described in Legal Business in 1994 as "the Bar's Renaissance Man", and in Chambers and Partners Directory between 1996 and 2006 as one of the top three stars of the Bar. He was, while President of Trinity College, in part-time practice, but has returned to full-time practice in 2006. He was named as one of the top ten barristers of the decade by Legal Business in 1999 and one of the top ten currently in practice in "The Independent on Sunday" in 2001. He was The Times "Lawyer of the Week" in November 1999. and won the Women's Defence League award in 1991 for his contribution to women's rights law.

Profiles:

He was profiled in the Sunday Telegraph magazine (12 March 2000) under the title "Is this the most Influential Man in Britain?". Other profiles include “Michael Beloff” Isis October 1962. “Man of Many Parts” Legal Business May 1994. “Brief Encounter” Runners World February 1995. “The Real Hero Behind Spurs Incredible FA Comeback” Mail on Sunday 23/3/95. “Michael Beloff QC to be the Next President” Trinity Law TT95. “Profile of an Old Dragon” Dragons 3. “The Barrister who is Game for Anything” The Independent 18/9/98. “A Day in the Career of Michael Beloff” Career 1999/2000 and 2000/2001. “The Mover and Shaker” Oxford Mail 12/4/00. “Legal Eagle on His Marks” The Daily Telegraph 17/6/00. “I want doesn’t get” The Lawyer 2/4/01. “How I got there” The Independent 4/10/01. “Not strictly academic” The Guardian 18/06/02. “Legal Eagle Flies In” The Guernsey Press 22/06/02. “Without Peerage” The Financial Times 29/06/02. “To Mike Denness via Eastenders” Wisden Monthly July 2002. Trust at a High Tempo” The Times T2 Crème De La Crème 30/10/02. “Propping up the Bar” National Graduate Guide 2002. “I fight cases not causes” The Independent 04/10/03. “Ahead of the Race” The Times T2 02/03/04. “A Tale of Two Cities” Graya, Hilary 2005. “My Sporting Life” Verdict June 2006. “Farewell to Trinity” Oxford Times Magazine July 2006. “Man in the news” Burford News July 2006. “The Quick Fire Silk isn’t ready to rest his case” The Independent on Sunday 21/01/07.

Writings / Lectures:

He has lectured on law in Beijing, Vancouver, Moscow, Berlin, Nuremberg, Monte Carlo, Salzburg, Hong Kong, Singapore, Dublin, Auckland, Kuala Lumpur, Tokyo, Madras, Charlottesville and New Orleans, as well as in the United Kingdom. He was a visiting Professor at the University of Tulane Law School, New Orleans in 2001 and 2003.

His legal publications include: The Sex Discrimination Act (Butterworths, 1976); Halsbury's Laws 4th Ed., Vol.45 ('Time'), 4th ed., 1975 (and 15th edition 1999); Judicial Review (contributor, Butterworths) (2nd ed., 1998); Sports Law (Hart Publishing) 1999; and (as contributor) Judicial Safeguards in Administrative Proceedings (N P Engel 1989); The Golden Metwand Essays in Honour of Sir William Wade QC (1998); The Struggle for Simplicity: Essays in Honour of Lord Cooke of Thorndon (1997); European Community Law in English Courts (1999); Law and the Spirit of Inquiry: Essays in Honour of Sir Louis Blom-Cooper QC; Israel Among the Nations (1999); Practitioners of EC Law Handbook (1998); The Human Rights Act (1999); Freedom of Information and Expression; Essays in honour of Sir David Williams QC (2000); Judicial Review an International perspective; Essays in Honour of Lord Slynn (2000); Protecting Human Rights - the European Perspective. Essays in Honour of Rolf Ryssdal (2000); Constitutional Perspectives; Essays in Honour of H.M. Secrvai (2001); Judicial Review in the New Millennium(2003); Judges and Judicial Accountability (2003) . He has also written for Public Law, Current Legal Problems, Modern Law Review, Commercial Law Review, European Human Rights Law Review, Statute Law Review, Political Quarterly; European Current Law, Irish Jurist; The Journal of Environmental and Planning Law; New Zealand Law Journal, Denning Law Journal, Justice of the Peace; Jersey Law Review, Judicial Law Review (Consultant Editor) and The Sweet and Maxwell International Sports Law Review (General Editor). He is on the editorial board of the British Journal of Sport and Law and Education, Public Law and the Individual. He is an associate editor of the Dictionary of National Biography (20th Century Lawyers) and of the Oxford Companion to Law. He was previously legal correspondent for New Society (Diogenes), the Observer: and The San Diego Law Journal. He has written forwards to “Children, Sex Education and the Law” Neville Harris, NCB 1996; “The Future of Human Rights in the United Kingdom” Rabinder Singh, Hart Publishing 1997; “Privilege” Colin Passmore Professional Publishing 1998; “Off with their Wigs Judicial Revolution in Modern Britain” Charles Banner and Alexander Deane, Imprint Academic 2003; “The Rape of the Constitution” ed Keith Sutherland, Imprint Academic 2003; “Alien Winds across Paradise” Tyronne Fernando (then Foreign Minister of Sri Lanka), Vikas Publishing House Pvt Ltd, New Delhi, 2003; “Sport and the law” Dr Neville Cox and Alex Shuster, First Law 2004; “Injustice. State Trials from Socrates to Nuremberg” Brian Harris, Sutton 2005; “Trinity 450 years of an Oxford College Community” Clare Hopkins, OUP 2005; “Jersey Insolvency Law in Practice” Michael Wilkins, Key Haven Publications PLC 2006; “Through Winds of Fire” Tyronne Fernando, Vikas 2006. He gave the Statute Law Lecture (1993), the ALBA Lecture (1994), the John Kelly Lecture (UCD) (1996), the Lasok Lecture (Exeter) (1998), the Atkin Lecture (Reform Club) (1999), the Ramamani Memorial Lecture (Madras) (1999) the Margaret Howard Lecture (Trinity, Oxford) (2000), the Second Bailiff’s Lecture (Guernsey 2002), the First Hans Espeland Lecture (Oslo 2002), the Alexander Howard Lecture (Royal College of Surgeons 2003), the Peter Taylor Memorial Lecture (Royal Grammar School, Newcastle 2003), The David Hall Memorial Lecture (Environmental Law Foundation 2004). He was one of four panellists in a debate held in lieu of the Tom Sargant Annual Lecture for Justice (2005) and gave the Neill Lecture (All Souls, Oxford 2006).

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