London Bar
Defamation and privacy
Leading junior3David Hirst –5RB
Areas of work include defamation, privacy, malicious falsehood, contempt, reporting restrictions, copyright, data protection, freedom of information, OFCOM and PCC unions regulatory issues and common law. Advises a wide variety of book, newspaper, magazine and online publishers, corporations and prominent individuals. Particular interest in technological aspects of media law. A contributor to ‘Gatley on Libel and Stander’ and ‘The Law of Privacy and the Media’.
Called 2003.
Malvern College, Hereford and Worcester; Trinity College, Cambridge (MA Modern History First Class; MPhil); City University (CPE); Inns of Court School of Law (BVC).