Lorna Skinner

Specialises in media and information law, encompassing data protection, defamation, privacy, breach of confidence, contempt, reporting restrictions. Extensive litigation experience acting for claimants and defendants. Cases of interest include: PJS v News Group Newspapers Ltd [2016] UKSC 26; Orb v Ruhan [2016] EWHC 850 (Comm); [2016] EWHC 361; Burrell v Clifford [2015] EWHC 2001 (Ch D); Vidal-Hall v Google [2014] EWHC 13; R (Secretary of Foreign & Commonwealth Affairs) v Assistant Deputy Coroner for Inner North London [2013] EWHC 3724 (Admin), [2013] EWHC 1786 (Admin); The wife and children of Omar Othman v English National Resistance and Ors [2013] EWHC 1421 (QB); APW v WPA [2012] EWHC 3151 (QB); Mayer v Hoar [2012] EWHC 1805; Viagogo Ltd v Myles and ors [2012] EWHC 433 (Ch); Hunt v Times Newspapers Ltd [2011] EWHC 272; Imerman v Imerman [2010] EWHC 64, [2009] EWHC 3486; Imerman v Tchenguiz [2009] EWHC 2024, [2009] EWHC 2902; Stelios Haji-Ioannou v Mark Dixon [2009] EWHC 178; Applause Store Production Ltd v Raphael [2008] EWHC 1781; Gentoo Group Ltd v Hanratty [2008] EWHC 627; Drury v Carnegie [2007] EWCA Civ 497, [2007] EMLR 24; L v L [2007] 2 FLR 171; Culla Park v Richards & ors [2007] EWHC 1687. Also acted for News International at the Leveson Inquiry and for various media parties at the Litvinenko inquiry.

Stanborough School, Welwyn Garden City; Newnham College, Cambridge.