Keystone Law

Media and entertainment.

Nicola is an experienced media and intellectual property lawyer, who specialises in giving commercial advice to publishing clients on pre-publication issues. She also has extensive litigation experience. Nicola s areas of expertise are defamation (libel and slander), privacy, breach of confidentiality, copyright, trade marks, passing off, contempt of court and litigation. Nicola s key achievements include: (i) extensive experience in providing pre-publication legal reports and clearance to book publishers, magazine publishers, film production companies and broadcasters working directly with authors, editors and producers; (ii) advising major news content provider on a regular basis, giving pre-broadcast clearance from the newsroom, working directly with journalists and editors; (iii) extensive experience in dispute resolution, including applications for injunctions, acting for claimants or defendants, in matters relating to defamation, privacy, infringement of copyright and contempt of Court (numerous cases have been reported); (iv) handling large-scale libel litigation for publishing clients (v) advising specialist media insurers in defamation and IP infringement claims; (vi) representing high profile individuals in libel claims, achieving prompt and successful settlements.

Trained Rubinstein Callingham Polden & Gale, qualified 1992. Manches, 1994-96; Biddle & Co, 1996-2000; Pinsents, 2000-03; Best and Soames, 2006-09; Keystone Law, 2009