Elisabethann Wright’s experience in the area of European Union law has included both periods in private practice and periods working with international institutions. She focuses on European Union (EU) law relating to life sciences, with particular emphasis on pharmaceutical law, medical devices, food law, and the environment. This includes assisting clients in classification of their products, establishment of a pathway to authorisation and marketing of their products in the EU (including related regulatory obligations), pharmacovigilance obligations, promotion and marketing of products, sales agreements, clinical trial agreements, adverse event reporting, product withdrawals, data privacy obligations, and conduct of compliance and anti-bribery investigations. She also challenges national authority and EU Institution decisions concerning classification and marketing of medicinal products and medical devices.
Elisabethann has extensive experience in litigation before the European Court of Justice, the European Court of First Instance, and the European Free Trade Agreement (EFTA) Court. She was also a Référendaire* at the Court of Justice of the European Communities for many years. Her experience includes challenges, on behalf of industry clients, to decisions of EU institutions, and advising governments and public bodies on their national and international obligations arising from the EC Treaty and the European Economic Area (EEA) Agreement. Her practice includes advising on the challengeability of decisions of EU Institutions and the validity of EU legislation. She has successfully challenged decisions of the EU institutions before the European Courts.
Elisabethann also advises on issues of EU administrative and constitutional law and public international law.
Prior to joining Hogan & Hartson, Elisabethann served as Senior Legal Officer and Hearing Officer at the EFTA Surveillance Authority.
Elisabethann holds degrees from King’s College London (Postgraduate Diploma in EC Competition Law, 2004), The Institute of Professional Legal Studies, Belfast (B.L., 1985) and The Queen’s University of Belfast (LL.B., 1984).
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