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Mark Stephens was born on 7 April, 1957 in Old Windsor, Berkshire, England, is an English solicitor. Discover Mark Stephens's Biography, Age, Height, Physical Stats, Dating/Affairs, Family and career updates. Learn How rich is he in this year and how he spends money? Also learn how he earned most of networth at the age of 66 years old?

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Occupation Solicitor
Age 66 years old
Zodiac Sign Aries
Born 7 April, 1957
Birthday 7 April
Birthplace Old Windsor, Berkshire, England
Nationality United Kingdom

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1957

Mark Howard Stephens (born 7 April 1957) is an English solicitor specializing in media law, intellectual property rights, freedom of speech and human rights.

He is known for representing James Hewitt when allegations of his affair with Diana, Princess of Wales first emerged.

Stephens was born in Old Windsor, Berkshire, on 7 April 1957.

His father was an artist and his mother a secretary and later on a social worker.

He attended St Paul's Secondary Modern School and Strode's Grammar School, followed by the Cambridge Manor Academy for Dramatic Arts, before going on to study law at North East London Polytechnic.

1982

He went on to study European Community Law at the Vrije Universiteit in Brussels and before being admitted as a Solicitor of the Supreme Court in England and Wales in July 1982.

He married Donna Coote in 1982 and they have three daughters.

1983

In 1983, with Roslyn Innocent, he established Stephens Innocent, a law firm specializing in visual arts and intellectual property.

1985

in 1985 and they were subsequently tried for libel.

1990

The case began in 1990 and became the longest-running court case in UK history.

1991

In February 1991, Stephens was acting as a solicitor for the National Union of Mineworkers (NUM) when John Hendy, Geoffrey Robertson, and two other QCs defended Arthur Scargill and Peter Heathfield against claims that they had handled funds inappropriately during the miner's strike of 1984–85.

1992

In 1992, he worked on a case brought by the NUM against the government that saw an earlier decision to close 31 coal mines overturned after it was deemed unlawful.

When allegations of an affair between James Hewitt and Diana, Princess of Wales, were published by The Sun in 1992, Stephens claimed through the Press Association he had issued proceedings against the newspaper for defamation even though he had not actually served the writ.

Princess Diana later admitted the affair on television.

1993

In 1993, Stephens helped the MP Clive Soley to draft a parliamentary bill on press regulation.

Stephens commented that people thrust into the public eye needed protection from the press, but that "astronomical" fines would be needed to be able to achieve this.

1995

According to The Guardian, in 1995, his public profile was further raised by defending Greenpeace against litigation brought by Shell over an alleged illegal occupation of the Brent Spar oil platform.

Stephens provided pro bono assistance to two activists: Helen Steel and David Morris, who had handed out leaflets stating "What's wrong with McDonald's?"

2000

In August 2000, Stephens was retained by heavyweight boxing champion Mike Tyson for a hearing before the British Boxing Board of Control.

The disciplinary hearing of 2 counts relating to Tyson's behavior after his 38-second victory over Lou Savarese in Glasgow in June that year, Tyson escaped a ban from fighting in Britain.

Tyson was acquitted on one charge, but convicted and fined on the other count.

2002

In January and December 2002 Stephens was retained by the Washington Post to represent its veteran war correspondent, Jonathan Randal, in The Hague at the United Nations Court, the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia, establishing the principle of qualified privilege for the protection of journalists in war crimes courts.

2004

After the defendants were fined £60,000, he took their case to the ECHR in 2004, where they successfully appealed the fine.

2007

In early 2007, hired by aboriginal lawyer Michael Mansell, Stephens launched proceedings for the Tasmanian Aborigines to recover 15 sets of their stolen ancestral remains at the Natural History Museum in London although the case was not seen through to completion.

He accused the museum of wishing to retain them for "genetic prospecting".

2008

In 2008, he won an apology from a former police driver who had written "appalling lies" about the novelist and essayist Sir Salman Rushdie regarding the book The Satanic Verses.

One allegation was that Rushdie had profited from the fatwa issued against him after publishing The Satanic Verses.

2010

In 2010, he represented Julian Assange, the founder of WikiLeaks, defending him against an extradition request to Sweden based on suspicion of numerous sexual offences.

He also founded the law firm Howard Kennedy LLP, which has represented several high-profile clients in media and entertainment law cases.

January 2010 brought the first case– known colloquially as the alphabet soup case

– in the (then) new UK Supreme Court.

Stephens represented several media organizations and argued that the names of several people who were accused of funding terrorist organizations should have their anonymity stripped.

The judges agreed with the media and ruled that the names should be released, noting that anonymity orders had become "deeply ingrained" in court cases in the UK.

In 2010, Stephens began to defend the founder of WikiLeaks, Julian Assange, against extradition to Sweden.

Soon after the WikiLeaks cables disclosure began, Stephens told The Guardian that he thought he was being monitored by the security services and that his home was being watched.

2011

In January 2011, Stephens claimed that United States authorities were trying to develop a criminal case against Assange, citing, for example, a subpoena against Twitter issued by the United States Department of Justice to demand private information on Assange and other people associated with WikiLeaks.

The Guardian reported that Assange ended his relationship with Stephens after he accused Finers Stephens Innocent of withholding a £412,000 advance for his autobiography to cover legal fees.

Assange accused them of "extreme overcharging" which Finers Stephens Innocent denied.

In July 2011, it was reported that Stephens had been one of a group of high-profile lawyers who may have been the victim of the News International phone hacking scandal.

2012

The firm sued Assange in January 2012 to recover fees.