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Matthew Parish
BornHeadingley, Leeds, England
Occupation(s)Lawyer, academic, author, international relations expert
Years active1998–present
Criminal chargesFraud
Criminal penalty3 years prison
Websitewww.matthew-parish.com

Matthew Parish is a British international lawyer and scholar of international relations, based in England and Eastern Europe. In September 2021, Parish was sentenced by a Swiss court to three years in prison for his role staging a fraudulent arbitration to prove the authenticity of incriminating evidence in a political dispute between rival members of the Kuwaiti ruling family.

Early life

Parish was born in Leeds, in West Yorkshire. He is a graduate of Cambridge University.

Career and publications

Parish worked as the head of the legal department of the International Supervisor for Brčko, part of the Office of the High Representative (OHR) in Bosnia and Herzegovina. His first book, on reconstruction in post-war Brčko, A Free City in the Balkans (2009), drew on his experience working for the OHR. The book has been criticized for being too sceptical of the international community's statebuilding efforts in the country.

Parish's second book, Mirages of International Justice, was published in 2011. The book describes international law as "for the most part quite useless". According to a sceptical review by Christian Axboe Nielsen, the book "concludes by wishing that both international law and international organizations would disappear from the face of the earth". Nielsen compares the book unfavourably to A Free City in the Balkans, describing the latter as making "provocative and, by comparison, cogent arguments".

Parish left Akin Gump's Geneva office for Holman Fenwick Willan's (HFW) Geneva office in 2011. In December 2014 he and a colleague at HFW set up their own practice, Gentium Law Group. Gentium was one of the first boutique arbitration law firms that involved teams of senior arbitration lawyers splitting away from large established law firms and forming their own smaller practices under new brands. The group was nominated as a Global Arbitration Review Top 100 Law Firm worldwide in 2016 and 2017.. In November 2018 Parish ceased to manage the company having handed control to a new partner.

Legal issues

In 2018, Parish was found guilty of criminal defamation in Switzerland for making the reports to Western intelligence services accusing his former clients, Murat Seitnepesov and Konstantin Ryndin, of money laundering, fraud and financing terrorism. Sentenced to two months, Parish reports in a self-published book that he spent 23 days in prison.

Parish was further charged in 2019. He was subsequently fined, given a one-year suspended prison sentence and instructed by the court to see a psychiatrist. Reuters reported that a spokesman for the Geneva prosecutor's office said: "Mr. Parish is found guilty of defamation, calumny, a coercion attempt and of failing to conform with an authority’s decision." Parish indicated his intention to appeal the conviction.

Parish has also been convicted in Switzerland for his role in a fraudulent arbitration in a dispute between rival members of the Kuwaiti ruling family aimed at falsely authenticating fraudulent videos showing corruption and breach of Iran sanctions. AP reported in February 2021 that a court hearing had been held and adjourned until August 2021. In September 2021, Parish was convicted and sentenced to three years' jail time and was banned from practicing law in Switzerland. As AP reports, "Judge Gonseth said he was an arbitration expert and 'manifestly' involved at all stages of the process".

Works

Books

References

  1. Farge, Emma (2021-09-10). "Kuwait's Sheikh Ahmad convicted of forgery in Geneva trial". Reuters. Retrieved 2023-09-13.
  2. Biography, MattewParish.com
  3. ^ Farge, Emma (29 February 2020). "Swiss court convicts British lawyer of defaming oil trader to MI5". Reuters. Archived from the original on 29 February 2020. Retrieved 27 May 2020.
  4. ^ Morrison, Kenneth (15 June 2010). "Matthew Parish, A Free City in the Balkans: Reconstructing a Divided Society in Bosnia". Balkan Insight. Retrieved 4 November 2023.
  5. Matthew Parish, "A Free City in the Balkans: Reconstructing a Divided Society in Bosnia" (London: I.B.Tauris 2009)
  6. Subotic, Jelena (2010). "A free city in the Balkans: reconstructing a divided society in Bosnia, by Matthew Parish, New York, I.B. Tauris, 2009, xvii + 256 pp. + maps, illustrations (hardback), ISBN 978-1848850026". Nationalities Papers. 38 (3): 440-442. doi:10.1017/S0090599200039787.
  7. Nielsen, Christian Axboe (2013). "Mirages of international justice: the elusive pursuit of a transnational legal order, by Matthew Parish, Cheltenham, UK and Northampton, MA, Edward Elgar, 2011, 268 pp., £75 (Hardback), ISBN 978-1-84980-408-0". Southeast European and Black Sea Studies. 13 (1): 110–112. doi:10.1080/14683857.2013.773185.
  8. Muckle, Adam. "CDR – Commercial Dispute Resolution". Arbitration,Litigation,Dispute Resolution | CDR Magazine.
  9. https://www.shab.ch/shabforms/servlet/Search?EID=7&DOCID=1897317
  10. https://globalarbitrationreview.com/editorial/1035366/gentium-law-group
  11. "Global Arbitration Review – GAR 100 – 9th Edition". globalarbitrationreview.com.
  12. "GAR Arbitration Surveys". Globalarbitrationreview.com. Retrieved 2017-02-23.
  13. https://www.shab.ch/shabforms/servlet/Search?EID=7&DOCID=HR02-1004491200
  14. Miller, Hugo; Hoffman, Andy (June 5, 2018). "Telling Tale About Russian Client Lands Swiss Lawyer in Jail". Bloomberg L.P. Archived from the original on 12 June 2018.
  15. Osborne, Lydia (6 June 2018). "Swiss Lawyer Imprisoned After Making Fraud Accusations". Organized Crime and Corruption Reporting Project. Archived from the original on 15 June 2018. Retrieved 11 February 2022.
  16. Parish, Matthew (2018). Spy's Diary: Essays from a Maximum Security Swiss Prison (PDF). Matthew Parish. Archived from the original (PDF) on 11 February 2022.
  17. "British lawyer faces new charges in Geneva". globalarbitrationreview.com. Archived from the original on 27 October 2020.(subscription required)
  18. "A Genève, trois avocats et un cheikh sont inculpés pour faux arbitrage". Le Temps. September 16, 2016. Archived from the original on 13 June 2018 – via letemps.ch.
  19. Besson, Sylvain (16 Nov 2018). "Un puissant membre du CIO renvoyé au tribunal pour faux arbitrage". Le Temps (in French). Archived from the original on 31 August 2023. Retrieved 2018-11-17.
  20. "Powerful Kuwaiti IOC member to be tried in Switzerland for forgery". Agence France-Presse. 17 Nov 2018. Archived from the original on 2018-11-17. Retrieved 2018-11-17.
  21. ^ "Lawyers charged in Geneva over fake arbitration". globalarbitrationreview.com. Archived from the original on 20 July 2021. Retrieved 2021-07-20.(subscription required)
  22. "Trial of Olympic sheikh on forgery charge pushed back". AP NEWS. 20 April 2021. Archived from the original on 8 May 2021. Retrieved 2021-05-08.
  23. AP (2021-04-13). "Forgery trial of Olympic powerbroker now set to open in August". Business Standard India. Archived from the original on 15 April 2021. Retrieved 2021-05-08.
  24. ^ "Olympic power broker Sheikh Ahmad found guilty of forgery". Associated Press. 10 September 2021. Archived from the original on 17 September 2021.
  25. AP, PTI & (2021-09-11). "Olympic power broker Sheikh Ahmad found guilty of forgery". The Hindu. ISSN 0971-751X. Retrieved 2023-11-02.
  26. "مركز رفع وتحميل صور وملفات رابط مباشر" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 2022-01-10. Retrieved 2022-01-10.

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