Barrister with a wide range of experience and practices in all areas of media and information law (including defamation, privacy and confidence, data protection, freedom of information, harassment, contempt, reporting restrictions, pre-publication advice and copyright). She has represented a wide range of clients, including the Core Participant Victims in the Leveson Inquiry, Actors, Sports men/women, Members of Parliament, Local Authorities, Primary Care Trusts, Law Firms, and media publishers.
Recent Cases include:
Rebekah Vardy v Colleen Rooney [2021] EWHC 1888 (acting for the Claimant in her high profile libel claim); Various Claimants v NGN (acting for the Claimant Group in the phone hacking litigation in relation to The News of the World and The Sun); Sicri v Associated Newspapers [2020] EWHC 3541 (acting for Claimant in his successful privacy claim against the Mailonline); ZXC v Bloomberg [2020] EWCA 611 (acting for Claimant is his successful privacy claim which established the general right not to be named as a suspect of crime); Banks v Cadwalladr [2019] EWHC 3451 (acting for Arron Banks in his libel claim against the journalist Carole Cadwalladr in respect of allegations made in her Ted Talk).”Called 1997; Lincoln’s Inn. Joined Matrix in 2011; senior lawyer in Ministry of Justice 2009-11; barrister at 5RB Chambers from 1998-2009. Publications of note: Football and the Law (contributor) (2018); co-author of ‘The Law of Privacy and the Media’ (2002, OUP); Blogger for Inforrm.
Conversational Farsi and French.
Leeds University (LLB (Hons) (First Class)).