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About
Provided by Anna Medvinskaia
Practice Areas
Specialist in consumer and regulatory law, including e-commerce, unfair trading, misleading and comparative advertising and financial disputes. Particular expertise in EU consumer law and judicial review. Regularly acts for major retailers, social media platforms, finance providers and public bodies.
Notable cases include acting for the Civil Aviation Authority in Jet 2.com v Civil Aviation Authority [2020] EWCA Civ 35 and representing a major online platform in proceedings regarding novel issues of EU consumer law.
Career
Taught EU Law at the London School of Economics; worked as a visiting professional at the European Commission and as a consultant for the United Nations. Read law at the London School of Economics and at the University of Cambridge.
Professional Memberships
Bar European Group; Young Public Lawyers' Group; Food Law Group; Bar Council's European Committee
Publications
‘Consumer Law on the Internet’ in Gringras: The Laws of the Internet (with Prof. Riefa) (Bloomsbury, 2022); Advertising and Consumer Rights (e-commerce section) chapters in ‘Consumer and Trading Standards: Law and Practice’ (‘the Pink Book’) (LexisNexis, 2022)
Contributor to ‘The Encyclopedia of Financial Services Law’ (Sweet & Maxwell, 2021);
Case reports in International Law Reports, Cambridge University Press (Nos. 148 and 149)
Personal
Fluent in English, Russian and Swedish. Working knowledge of French.