Ari Alibhai
Call 2003MA (Hons) Dip Law
Practice: Trading Standards and Crime
Recommended as a Leading Junior - Consumer and Product Liability - The Legal 500 (2010)
Summary
Ari Alibhai prosecutes and defends all types of general crime.He has particular expertise in criminal aspects of copyright and trademark law, trading standards law and confiscation. He has prosecuted a large number of cases on behalf of the British Phonographic Industry and various Trading Standards services, prosecuting all types of counterfeiting activity.
He has experience in all forms of private prosecution, both on behalf of corporations and private clients.
Additional Information
Registered with the Bar Council – Public Access DirectoryMember of the Public Access Bar Association - PABA
2003-04 Senior Award Gray’s Inn
2002-03 Bedingfield Scholar, Gray’s Inn
2001-02 David Karmel award, Gray’s Inn
Ari Alibhai speaks on subjects of intellectual property crime, fraud and confiscation.
He has given seminars and lectures to numerous Trading Standards services, Police Regional Intelligence Units and the Chartered Institute of Patent Attorneys.
Publications
Researcher for Jones and Doobay on Extradition and Mutual Assistance (Sweet & Maxwell)
Notable cases:
Virgin Media v Faulkner and others (2010)
Multi-defendant cable television fraud
R v Hussain & others (2009)
Counterfeit trainer suppliers
R v Wendy Fairs Markets Ltd
Test case prosecution of market fair organiser
R v Mitchell
Multi-handed counterfeiting case
R v Farhat Nissa and others
Multimillion pound conspiracy to defraud the music industry
R v Rayyonics Ltd
Illicit set-top box supplier
BPI v Access All Areas Productions
Unlicensed karaoke systems
R v Hussain & others
Counterfeit trainer suppliers
Articles:
Prosecuting offences involving counterfeit goods
Incorporating trademark offences, the Trademarks Act 1994, classification of trademarks, prosecuting copyright offences, the 13.3.2009
