Cases that changed media law
For more than 15 years we’ve acted in the litigation that has defined how defamation, privacy and phone hacking claims are decided today.
- 2010
Thornton v Daily Telegraph Media
Established the legal test for “substantial damage to reputation”, which led to the enactment of the “serious harm” requirement in the Defamation Act 2013.
- 2019 · Supreme Court
Lachaux v Independent Print Ltd and Evening Standard Ltd
The first case to test the “serious harm” requirement under section 1(1) of the Defamation Act 2013 in the Supreme Court.
- 2011
News of the World phone hacking claims
Litigation that led to the closure of the News of the World, the establishment of the Leveson Inquiry and the blocking of News Corp’s BSkyB takeover.
- 2015
Gulati v Mirror Group Newspapers
The landmark privacy case that transformed how damages are assessed in phone hacking and misuse of private information claims. We played a key role in initiating the class actions against Mirror Group Newspapers.
- 2019
Sir Elton John, David Furnish and Elizabeth Hurley v News Group Newspapers
Settlement of phone-hacking claims against the publisher of The Sun on behalf of Sir Elton John, David Furnish, Elizabeth Hurley and Heather Mills.
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