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Maria Harris

Senior Associate, London

Maria is a Senior Associate within the Global Regulatory, Compliance and Investigations team. Her practice focuses on corporate criminal defence work, crisis management and regulatory compliance, mainly working with clients based within the food, retail, utilities, and hospitality sectors.
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Experience


Maria specialises in regulatory law, covering both contentious and non-contentious issues. Her experience includes health and safety, consumer products, crisis management, environmental law, food law, water regulations, and advertising law.

Maria regularly advises and support clients throughout active investigations by various enforcement authorities including the HSE, The Environment Agency and Local Authorities. Her practice covers the full spectrum of regulatory representation: from initial communications and responses to s.41 requests, to responses to interviews under caution, and all the way through to trials in the Crown Court. Where clients are facing the most serious of incidents, Maria also has a wealth of experience guiding them through the inquest process and providing representations in the Coroner's Court. Maria is frequently instructed in relation to matters of a most serious and highly complex nature by a diverse client base (including both corporate bodies and individuals) from the high hazard industries with a regional, national or global footprint.

Maria has an excellent insight into how businesses implement regulatory practices in real life and what pressures they face in doing so having undertaken a full time secondment over a period of 18 months at a large online retailer. Whilst on secondment, Maria covered a wide variety of compliance issues relevant to the consumer sector, including; advertising regulation, price promotions, cosmetics regulation, consumer protection and general product safety.

Memberships


  • Health and Safety Lawyers Association (HSLA) The Food Law Group