David’s practice encompasses the full ambit of media, entertainment and information law. He has appeared in several of the highest profile defamation and privacy actions of recent years and consistently acts on behalf of leading firms of solicitors in the field and for a large number of the most prominent media organisations and companies (including Associated Newspapers, Google, Facebook, Guardian News & Media and Times Newspapers).

Equally highly regarded for his work on data protection and freedom of information matters, he has represented public and regulatory bodies and the media in cases heard before both the courts and the Information Tribunal. He also holds a very substantial practice in the fields of public and entertainment law, where he regularly advises the media regulator, Ofcom, and has acted for the United Kingdom Government in the successful defence of the two most important UK media law cases to reach the European Court of Human Rights in recent years.

David is listed as a leading junior by The Legal 500 in the fields of Defamation and Privacy, Data Protection, and Media & Entertainment Law.

Contributor to Arlidge, Eady & Smith on Contempt, 5th edition, 2017

Co-author, Atkin’s Court Forms on Defamation

Member of the Bar Pro Bono Unit

MA (Hons) History (First Class), University of EdinburghPost-graduate law diploma (Distinction), The College of LawQueen Mother Scholarship (Middle Temple)