Peter advises commercial organisations of varying sizes on all aspects of data protection compliance. Clients include a major water utility, several charities, a global telecommunications services provider, one of the world’s largest medical data suppliers and several e-commerce companies.

Peter regularly speaks at major privacy conferences and is an acknowledged and accomplished professional speaker. He conducts data protection audits for international commercial organisations and provides training courses in data protection compliance in all fields, including human resources departments, charities, marketing executives and lawyers.

David Berry
David specialises in advising on non-contentious corporate and commercial issues in the IT and communications sector, which invariably includes data protection matters, together with work on outsourcing, large scale projects, venture capital transactions and international joint ventures.

He is Head of the Corporate and Commercial Service Group and chairs the "ebusiness at CR" breakfast seminars for clients of the firm.

Recent talks include presenting a paper to the financial services industry on data exports. He has also written on data protection and security issues for the Computer Law and Security Report.

Robin Bynoe
Robin advises on general non-contentious IP, publishing, film, TV, franchising; and sport and entertainment. He also spects of IT work, for owners developers and users of software, and Internet related work. He advises regularly on gaming and lotteries, particularly the multi-jurisdictional issue raised by online betting and lotteries.

Andrew Sharpe
Andrew specialises in Information Technology (all commercial aspects, including e-commerce matters and IT outsourcing); Telecommunications (all commercial aspects and regulatory matters); Intellectual Property (Non-contentious matters concerning copyright) Data Protection (including online privacy issues, employee monitoring, data preservation and retention) and Freedom of Information. Andrew joined Charles Russell in 2002, prior to this he was a telecommunications regulatory lawyer at Clifford Chance. He regularly lectures and carries out data protection and freedom of information law seminars for clients including conducting tailored training at clients’ premises. He has had data protection, freedom of information and telecommunications regulation articles published in Computer Law and Security Report, Privacy and Data Protection and Freedom of Information Journal

Carolyn Bigg
Carolyn qualified at Charles Russell in 2003. She specialises in non-contentious IT, telecoms, IP and data protection law. Carolyn has advised various commercial organisations (including clients to whom she was seconded) on their data protection policies and compliance issues.

Charissa Gooch
Charissa qualified into the Employment and Pensions Service Group in September 2004 after completing her training contract at Charles Russell. Charissa advises on all aspects of employment law and has experience in advising clients on data protection issues in an employment context. During her training contract, Charissa was seconded to Cable & Wireless plc for 3 months.