In March 2010 Berezovsky, represented by Desmond Browne QC, won a libel case and was awarded £ 150, 000 damages by the UK High Court over allegations that he had been behind the murder of Alexander Litvinenko.

Desmond Henry Browne, Baron Browne of Ladyton ( born 22 March 1952 ) is a British Labour Party politician who was the Member of Parliament ( MP ) for Kilmarnock and Loudoun from 1997 to 2010.

Born in Basel, von Browne was the son of Count Ulysses von Browne ( b. Limerick, Ireland ; 1659 d. Frankfurt am Main 1731 ) by his wife Annabella Fitzgerald, a daughter of the House of Desmond.

* Gerald Ralph Desmond Browne, 7th Earl of Kenmare ( 1896 – 1952 )

" Desmond Browne, QC, for McKenna, said that ' any perceived lack of academic rigour at La Salle ' did not prove that his client was dishonest.

A public inquiry into the incident was conducted by Mr. Desmond Fennell, QC, assisted by a panel of four expert advisers.

Desmond Boal QC and Seán MacBride SC were requested and accepted to represent the loyalist and republican positions.

* Desmond Boal QC, Leading Northern Ireland Barrister and former Stormont MP resides in Holywood

Desmond James Conrad Ackner, Baron Ackner, PC, QC ( 18 September 1920 – 21 March 2006 ) was a British judge and Lord of Appeal in Ordinary.

This is despite recommendations made by Mr. Desmond Fennell QC after inquiry into the Kings Cross Underground fire in 1987.

She was married for several years to Sir Desmond de Silva QC, KStJ ( b. 13 December 1939 Sri Lanka ), has a daughter and works in public relations.

Desmond Tutu, the former Anglican Archbishop of Cape Town and a Nobel Peace Prize winner, has described homophobia as a " crime against humanity " and " every bit as unjust " as apartheid: " We struggled against apartheid in South Africa, supported by people the world over, because black people were being blamed and made to suffer for something we could do nothing about ; our very skins.

Following a near-fatal swimming accident which incapacitated him for several months, Brubeck organized The Dave Brubeck Quartet in 1951, with Desmond on saxophone.

The final studio album for Columbia by the Desmond / Wright / Morello quartet was Anything Goes ( 1966 ) featuring Cole Porter songs.

18 Poems was noted for its visionary qualities which led to critic Desmond Hawkins writing that the work was " the sort of bomb that bursts no more than once in three years ".

In 1999 the Australian Senate Joint Standing Committee on Treaties was told by Professor Desmond Ball that the Pine Gap facility was used as a ground station for a satellite-based interception network.

Notably all three of the following belong to the Welsh-Norman FitzGerald dynasty, created by the Earls of Desmond, acting as Earls Palatine, for their kinsmen.

Demands in Britain, for example by the Marxist John Desmond Bernal, for centrally planned scientific research led Polanyi to defend the claim that science requires free debate.

Among the prominent figures who have called for the abolition of nuclear weapons are " the philosopher Bertrand Russell, the entertainer Steve Allen, CNN ’ s Ted Turner, former Senator Claiborne Pell, Notre Dame president Theodore Hesburg, South African Bishop Desmond Tutu and the Dalai Lama ".

Paul Desmond ( born Paul Emil Breitenfeld ; November 25, 1924 – May 30, 1977 ) was a jazz alto saxophonist and composer born in San Francisco, best known for the work he did in the Dave Brubeck Quartet and for penning that group's greatest hit, " Take Five ".

Desmond soon hired Brubeck, but cut his pay in half and then replaced him altogether after taking him along to Graeagle at The Feather River Inn for gigs ; this was done so Desmond could gamble in nearby Reno.

In 1950 Desmond left for New York City playing alto and clarinet for Jack Fina, but returned to California after hearing Brubeck's trio on the radio.

Brubeck was trying out for the 253rd Army band which Desmond belonged to.

During the 1970s Desmond rejoined with Dave Brubeck for several reunion tours including " Two Generations of Brubeck ".

Desmond also joined The Modern Jazz Quartet for a Christmas concert in 1971 at the New York Town Hall.

In 1578, to further the plans of exiled English and Irish Catholics such as Nicholas Sanders, William Allen, and James Fitzmaurice FitzGerald, Gregory outfitted adventurer Thomas Stukeley with a ship and an army of 800 men to land in Ireland to aid in the hope for overthrow of Elizabeth's rule through the Catholic leader and former leader of the first Desmond rebellion, Fitzmaurice.

But on the ensuing kickoff, Desmond Howard returned the ball a Super Bowl record 99 yards for a touchdown.

In the words of J. Desmond Clark, " It was early realized that the threefold division of culture into Stone, Bronze and Iron Ages adopted in the nineteenth century for Europe had no validity in Africa outside the Nile valley.

* " 007 " ( Shanty Town ), a hit record for ska singer Desmond Dekker

Desmond says that the US has a 98 % recycling rate for lead acid batteries and that the battery and lead-smelting industries observe some of the tightest pollution control standards in the world.

In March 1920 Molly MacCarthy began a club to help Desmond and herself write their memoirs ; and also " for their friends to regroup after the war ( with the proviso that they should always tell the truth )", thus bringing the members of Old Bloomsbury back together.

One of her most notable roles on stage was Norma Desmond in the Andrew Lloyd Webber production of Sunset Boulevard, for which Close won a Tony Award, playing the role on Broadway in 1994.

Desmond reportedly owned a Baldwin grand piano, which he loaned to Bradley Cunningham, owner of the famous Bradley's piano bar in Greenwich Village, with the condition that Mr. Cunningham had to move the large piano back to Desmond's Upper West Side apartment to become part of Desmond's estate.

After this long and expensive process, Desmond willed the piano to Mr. Cunningham, a characteristic and final prank.

But after he passed an MI5 security check conducted by two MI5 officers ( Cyril Mills and Tomás Harris ) and an MI6 officer ( Desmond Bristow ), Mills ( who Pujol only ever knew as Mr Grey ) suggested that his code name be changed to, after Greta Garbo.

In 1991, a company law inspector, solicitor John Glackin, was appointed by the then Government to investigate complicated dealings involving Mr Desmond and the purchase and sale of the former Johnston Mooney and O ’ Brien site in Ballsbridge, Dublin.

While Mr Desmond represented himself as an intermediary in the sale, Glackin ’ s report said Mr Desmond, businessman JP McManus and John Magnier were beneficiaries of the sale.

Mr Desmond strenuously disputed Glackin ’ s findings.

Mr Quinn and Mr Naughton were owed money by Mr Desmond and he used the proceeds of the sale to pay off his debt to them, according to the report.

Mr Desmond gave evidence relating to the Century Radio module of the Flood Tribunal.

The Moriarty Tribunal found that Mr Desmond made substantial payments to Taoiseach Charles Haughey.

In September 1994 Mr Desmond made a payment of £ 100, 000. 00 sterling to Mr Haughey and in October 1996 he made a payment of £ 25, 000 sterling.

While Mr Desmond claims these payments to be loans, repayable by Mr Haughey, the Tribunal did not accept this explanation.

Ultimately Mr Haughey was forced to settle with the Revenue Commissioners, as it appears he had failed to declare the payments from Mr Desmond.

The Tribunal noted that the payments were made via the Swiss bank account of a company called Anesia Etablissement, Banque Scandinave en Suisse, Case Postale 901, 1211 Geneva 3, of which Mr Desmond was the beneficial owner, via an account at Henry Ansbacher & Company to

Mr Desmond also paid £ 75, 456 for the refurbishment of Mr Haughey's yacht, the Celtic Mist, between 1990 and 1991, at a time according to the Tribunal, that Mr Haughey earned between £ 69, 764 and £ 72, 354 a year as Taoiseach.