Michael Bloch (barrister)
Michael Gordon Bloch QC (born 18 October 1951) is a British barrister, a member of Blackstone Chambers.
A son of the marriage of John Bloch and Thelma E. Platzky, he was educated at Bedales School, Corpus Christi College, Cambridge, where he graduated BA and MA, and the University of East Anglia, where he gained the degree of M.Phil.[1] He was called to the bar from Lincoln's Inn in 1979.[2]
In 1975 Bloch married firstly Caroline S. Williams, in Wandsworth.[3] They had two daughters, Susannah and Claudia Bloch.[4]
Bloch first joined the One Essex Court Chambers,[5] and was appointed a Queen's Counsel in 1998.[2] The same year, he married secondly Lady Camilla Bingham, a fellow barrister and one of the daughters of Lord Lucan.[6]
In September 2000 Bloch moved from One Essex Court to Wilberforce Chambers. In 2013 he resigned from there to join Blackstone Chambers, which was reported as a significant boost for Blackstone, filling a gap in commercial and arbitration law left by the departure of Thomas Beazley QC.[5]
In 2008 he acted for Lucasfilm in its dispute with the British engineer Andrew Ainsworth of Shepperton Design Studios over the rights to the stormtrooper helmets as used in Star Wars.[7] In 2013 he acted for Nestlé in a battle with Cadburys over the purple colour of its "Dairy Milk" bar wrappers.[5]
References
- ^ "Michael Gordon BLOCH" in Debrett's People of Today, accessed 18 August 2014
- ^ a b "BLOCH, Michael Gordon", in Who's Who 2014 (A & C Black, an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing plc, 2014)
- ^ Register of Marriages for Wandsworth Registration District, volume 15 (1975), p. 1384
- ^ Lady CAMILLA BINGHAM Barrister (Daughter of 7th Earl of Lucan, who disappeared in mysterious circumstances nearly 24 years ago) With her new husband MICHAEL BLOCH QC Barrister at diomedia.com, accessed 25 February 2018
- ^ a b c Kate Beioley, Michael Bloch QC quits Wilberforce for Blackstone Chambers at thelawyer.com dated 25 October 2013, accessed 20 March 2018
- ^ Lucan, Earl of (I, 1795) at cracroftspeerage.co.uk, accessed 25 February 2018
- ^ Costume designer strikes back in Star Wars IP rights test case in The Lawyer dated 7 April 2008, accessed 20 March 2018
External links
- Michael Bloch QC at Blackstonechambers.com