Litigation Support Guide 2026 : UK-wide
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Provided by Palatine Communications
Palatine is a specialist consultancy with deep expertise in litigation support and assisting in the publicity around complex, high-profile disputes and investigations. The firm comprises media, legal and communications practitioners with multi-decade working knowledge of a range of disputes categories in numerous jurisdictions. As a boutique with widely-acknowledged strength in contentious matters, our practice also covers contested capital markets situations, insolvencies, single-issue campaigning and crisis management. Founded in 2019, we are unencumbered by legacy costs and offer consistent access to senior counsel.
Provided by Chambers
Palatine Communications brings together a team of experienced professionals in litigation PR. The team has advised on a broad range of litigation mandates, including commercial disputes and asset recovery, class actions and arbitration matters.
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Palatine campaigned on behalf of class representative Dr Rachael Kent in her Competition Appeals Tribunal case against Apple relating to its alleged unfair dominance of the app ecosystem on iPhone and iPad devices. This was the first claim to succeed at trial under the CAT opt-out regime.
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Palatine is dependable, reliable, provides good quality work, is available out of hours and is super responsive.
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Conal Walsh is founding partner at Palatine Communications, having previously served as a business investigations editor and law courts correspondent. He receives praise for his litigation communication work and investigative capabilities.
Conal Walsh understands the industry and knows how to respond and what responses people are looking for.
Conal is great. He's really lovely to deal with, straightforward, knowledgeable and he knows the media industry inside out. He really rolls his sleeves up, he's excellent and one of the top people around.
Litigation PR & Communications
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Conal Walsh
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