Gallant Macmillan is to go to the High Court on 4 October to look for the personal sum of hundreds of PlusNet users.
Internet service providers have affianced to take a tougher mount before handing over data, after the trickle of thousands of users' personal sum by ACS:Law.
Simon Gallant told BBC News that he had "no problem" embarking authorised claims.
Mr Gallant's definite is looking a justice demand from British Telecom-owned funding PlusNet is to personal sum of a "large number" of broadband users the definite suspects of illegally downloading and pity song from the nightclub and record tag Ministry of Sound.
The conference is scheduled to be listened before Chief Master Winegarten at the High Court on Monday, and follows usually a couple of days after the personal sum of thousands of users were leaked online, subsequent to a safety crack by the authorised definite ACS:Law.
Users from 4chan, who have a long follow record of internet activism, targeted ACS:Law during what it called Operation Payback.
ACS:Law's website was taken down for a couple of hours and after it was restored, it emerged that the company's e-mail database had been leaked online.
Many of the e-mails contained unsecured papers with the personal sum of thousands of UK broadband subscribers.
PlusNet mentioned it would right away take a more severe position against requests for user data.
"ACS:Law's activities have undermined the stream authorised process," a orator for PlusNet told BBC News.
"It's in everyone's interests to revive certainty in this routine so that broadband users are under arrest and you are gritty to do this.
"We are actively reviewing our draw close to these avowal requests to accomplish this design and this will surprise our draw close to Monday's hearing," they added.
But Mr Gallant mentioned that, as far as he was concerned, "nothing has changed" and he hoped to obtain a list of users suspected of illegally pity files.
"We are move with the application," he said.
"I am wakeful this sort of work is quarrelsome and you have completed a great treat of due hard work and are wakeful of all the concerns people have raised.
"Providing a rights hilt can infer to me that they have a valid authorised claim, because should I - as a barrister - have any complaint representing them?" he added.
Like ACS:Law, Gallant Macmillan moreover sends out letters to users suspected of illegally pity files.
The e-mail states that his definite has result in to think that someone at the specific IP residence (the electronic identity reserved to a person's broadband place and internet service provider) has illegally downloaded or common song from the Ministry of Sound. It then asks users to pointer an endeavour not to do so in the future and requests "compensation and costs" of 350.
To date, there has been usually been a handful of cases brought against someone in the UK for illegally pity a file.
"I are unaware what commission of people are going to negotiate and pay the compensation," mentioned Mr Gallant.
"But you are going to have to bring cases to court, because it would be actually incorrect to send out hundreds of letters without subsequent to through."
The rational of sending out thousands of letters demanding reward to users suspected of record pity proposed in late 2007 by a definite called Davenport Lyons and then was stretched by ACS:Law.
It lead to the beingthreatened.com site being set up to support users poorly indicted of illegally pity files.
The policy of pile mail-outs has been criticised by many groups, inclusive the British Phonographic Industry (BPI) that mentioned progressing this year that "legal action is most appropriate reserved is to most steady or major offenders - rsther than than at large used as a initial response".
Gallant Macmillan activities are expected to capture the madness of users of 4chan, who are currently targeting firms entangled in combating online piracy.
Hackers at the moment knocked out the websites of the Motion Picture Association of America (MPAA) and the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA), and then followed up with an attack on ACS:Law's website, that led to the subsequent safety breach.
On Wednesday morning, Operation Payback triggered a distributed rejection of service (DDoS) attack against the Australian Federation Against
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