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.

Andrew Sharpe
Andrew has practiced information technology, intellectual property and telecommunications law, including data protection law, since 1998. He regularly lectures and carries out data protection law seminars and has conducted tailored training onsite at clients’ premises. He has had a number of articles published on data protection law issues. Prior to qualifying as a solicitor, Andrew was a Royal Air Force engineering officer, specialising in communications electronics. He was the Data Protection Officer at each of the RAF stations to which he was posted, where he was responsible for the introduction of data protection operating procedures and compliance at each station under the Data Protection Act 1984.


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.