The reputation and crisis management team at Bindmans LLP represents both claimants and defendants in cases concerning libel, privacy, data protection and copyright issues. The team has a growing specialism in reputation and media management for whistleblowers, where it works closely with the firm’s employment and crime departments. Tamsin Allen leads the team with over 20 years of experience handling some of the most significant media cases before courts of all levels, particularly on behalf of individuals making libel claims against the media. Criminal lawyer Kate Goold deals with crime-related matters for journalists and media organisations. Monika Sobiecki is an expert in data protection and information law.

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Testimonials

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  • ‘A small but expert team with great knowledge in this area and who work together to ensure the best result for the clients. Cost effective and cost efficient. Able to consider the best way of achieving the aims of the client, which in this area may not be commencing litigation.’

  • 'Monika Sobiecki is excellent and works tirelessly for her clients.’
  • ‘Depth of knowledge and client care are exceptional.’

  • ‘Tamsin Allen - very clever, brilliant with clients, engaged and engaging.’

  • ‘Extremely committed in the work that they do.’

  • ‘The practitioners we work with are very experienced and knowledgeable. They are extremely well informed and have a knack for solving legal conundrums.'

Key clients

  • Caroline Watt
  • Joma Sison
  • Jolyon Maugham / GLP
  • Freedom from Torture
  • Pre-Publication Advice
  • Carole Cadwalladr
  • Nina Cresswell

Work highlights

  • Represented Caroline Watt, the agent of Rebekah Vardy, in the Wagatha Christie proceedings, and successfully resisted the application to be joined as a party to the main proceedings.
  • Successfully defended Joma Sison, a Filipino political refugee and prominent critic of President Duterte’s regime in the Philippines, from a defamation claim brought by a supporter of President Duterte.
  • Advised the Good Law Project and Jolyon Maugham on various defamatory allegations made about him and Good Law Project in the press.

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Partner and Head of Media and Information Law. Tamsin manages a wide-ranging media practice with an emphasis on defamation and privacy, whistleblowing, information and data protection, copyright and human rights. She works closely with crime, employment, family, public law and actions against the police to provide a seamless reputation and crisis management service. Tamsin has acted for Christopher Wylie, the Cambridge Analytica whistleblower, since Autumn 2017, as well as Shahmir Sanni who exposed criminal offences inside the designated campaign to leave the EU (Vote Leave), and Carole Cadwalladr in a libel claim brought against her by Leave EU founder, Arron Banks. Tamsin set up the Claimant Group in the hacking litigation against News Group Newspapers and has represented very large numbers of high profile people in phone-hacking claims. She is experienced in public inquiries and represented Core Participant Victims in the Leveson Inquiry. She now represents a number of Core Participants in the Undercover Policing Inquiry and the Independent Inquiry into Child Sexual Abuse. She also provides advice to publishers and NGO’s and charities on publication risks, GDPR and in litigation; including Mirror Group, the National Union of Journalists, Animal Aid, LUSH, Amnesty International, The New Statesman, Greenpeace, Index on Censorship and many others.

Practice head

The lawyer(s) leading their teams.

Tamsin Allen

Other key lawyers

Jules Carey, Kate Goold, Monika Sobiecki, Tayab Ali