Reported cases:
- Lachaux v AOL
- Tulisa Contostavlos v various
- Tulisa Contostavlos v Sun and others
- Simpson v MGN
- Simpson v Sun
- McKenna v MGN
- Castaway Productions Ltd v Granada and ITV
- Love Productions v BBC
- A&E Television v Channel Four
- Abot Hameri v Banijay
- Multigroup Bulgaria v Oxford Analytica
- Mzimba v Independent
- Ayman Asfari v MGN
- Duchess of York v O’Mara Books
- Geri Halliwell (now Horner) v Daily Star
- Far Out Productions v Unilever and Water Music
- Dolores O’Riordan v Sport
Acting for AOL’s Huffington Post in a multi-party and widely-reported defamation claim over allegations of domestic abuse which led to first the first Court of Appeal review of the 2013 Defamation Act, and in particular its “serious harm” test.
Acting for leading Syrian business mogul Ayman Asfari in a successful libel claim against the Mirror that he and his multinational company had been doing business with President Assad of Syria.
Acting for Duchess of York in obtaining an injunction against O’Mara books concerning an account of her relationship with John Bryan; a legal action that was front page news and attracted worldwide media coverage.
Successful libel claim for Geri Halliwell (now Horner) which lead to the national newspaper publishing full front-page apology for Geri over false claims that she was having an adulterous relationship with a senior EMI executive.
Successfully defending online publisher Oxford Analytica in a widely reported defamation claim brought by a Bulgarian multi-national company over allegations that it was a mafia organisation.
Acting for Paul McKenna in a successful and high-profile libel claim against Mirror Group Newspapers over an allegation that he had dishonestly claimed to be the holder of a PHD
Acting for Cranberries singer Dolores O’Riordan obtained (in 1996) the first order in the world permitting service of proceedings via the internet; an order that received media coverage in the UK and abroad.
Represented Tulisa Contostavlos on various media issues including very high-profile litigation over the publication online of a sex tape by her ex-boyfriend and a group of pornographers which was successfully dealt with by an emergency “John Doe” injunction)
Acting for Tulisa in a successful defamation claim against the Sun over allegations that by dating Leicester City footballer Danny Simpson she was a “home wrecker”)
Acting for Danny Simpson in a related action concerning his relationship with Tulisa leading to a decision on be the CA distinguishing the concept of a defamatory meaning and a libel sting)
Successfully defended for ITV and Granada a format rights dispute which fought both in the UK and US over I’m a Celebrity…Get Me Out of Here in a claim that it was an infringing copy of the Survivor format)
Acting for Love Productions in a format dispute concerning allegations of the misuse by the BBC of the Great British Bake-Off format (outcome confidential)
Successfully defending Channel Four in format rights dispute brought by A&E Television concerning the US broadcaster’s claim to have established goodwill in the term “Intervention” for TV programmes of that subject
Acting for Israeli Fremantle subsidiary Abot Hameiri in a multi-party and multi-jurisdictional format rights dispute with various subsidiaries of Banijay over an interactive game show.
Acting for Lizo Mzimba in a successful libel claim against the Independent that he had behaved in an unprofessional way while visiting Cambridge University.
Successfully defending Water Music in a multi-party music copyright action over the soundtrack to a long-running series of Marmite advertisements which was based on a classic 70’s dance hit.