About

Provided by Payne Hicks Beach LLP

Payne Hicks Beach guards our clients’ rights and reputations through our extensive experience in the laws of defamation, privacy, data protection, cyber, breach of confidence and harassment.


Our lawyers have been involved in ground-breaking cases and have established some of the most significant developments in this area. We know how the media works and the importance of moving quickly to protect our clients.


We act for high net worth and ultra high net worth individuals, entrepreneurs, company owners and directors on cases that encompass a wide range of circumstances and situations. We stop and shape stories before publication and broadcast to remove false allegations and private and confidential information through negotiation, court action and securing injunctions when necessary. We represent clients in High Court litigation and we have worked in a number of leading cases in defamation, privacy, breach of confidence, phone-hacking, data theft and cyber-crime.


We limit unfair damage to reputation by preventing the further spread of allegations and information, removing false or private information from the internet and tracking down anonymous posters including on social media. We also protect those who are being harassed, stalked or blackmailed and who are the victims of data breaches and cyber-crime.


We act discretely and sensitively to understand the issues clients face and solve them as quickly as possible.

Chambers Review

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Defamation/Reputation Management - UK-wide

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What the Team is Known For

Payne Hicks Beach has an active reputation management department with recent involvement in a number of high-profile defamations, privacy and breach of confidence disputes. The team works closely with the firm's family and private client departments to provide a comprehensive service to high net worth individuals, corporate clients and public figures. The lawyers maintain noteworthy strengths in handling phone hacking, harassment and Data Protection Act issues for claimants.

Work Highlights

  • Payne Hicks Beach represented Jeremy Kyle in connection with the highly publicised inquest into the death of Steve Dymond, focussing on the associated reputational and privacy issues.

Strengths

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Notable Practitioners

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Dominic Crossley
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Dominic Crossley
Head of Defamation/Reputation Management
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Band 1

Dominic Crossley is head of dispute resolution at Payne Hicks Beach. He is widely respected for his significant experience acting for high-profile and leading clients on a broad range of critical defamation and privacy matters.

Dominic is extremely impressive, every time I speak to him he has complete oversight of what is going on and where matters are interlinked with other issues. He gives a sense of reassurance.

Dominic is considered, wise and highly effective.

Dominic engenders huge loyalty from his clients.

I can't speak highly enough of Dominic, a very good litigator with great judgement.

Dominic was a great solicitor to have on my side. He had a full grasp of the subject and the issues. He made excellent suggestions in regard to the best course of action.

Hanna Basha
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Hanna Basha
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Hanna Basha is recognised for her expertise in representing high-profile clients in an array of reputation management concerns. Her experience includes advising on privacy injunctions and confidentiality agreements, as well as data protection issues.

Hanna is an impressive figure.

I have great respect for Hanna.

Hanna is a first-class lawyer with a warm, authoritative style.

Hanna is excellent.

Hanna gives clients the right advice they need to solve problems. She doesn't make work - she is always thinking about what is in best interest of client and gets to heart of issues really quickly.

Andrew Willan
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Andrew Willan
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Band 6

Andrew Willan is a partner in the litigation, arbitration and dispute resolution team. He is particularly active on the claimant side of defamation disputes, counting a number of high-profile individuals among his clients.

Andrew has a calm excellence; he is unflappable and very good indeed.

Andrew is an excellent lawyer with an easy manner giving clients total confidence.

I am always very impressed by Andrew, he is very effective in progressing cases.

Andrew has real gravitas.

Nick Grant
Nick Grant
Associates to watch

Nick Grant is a legal director at the firm. He is particularly expert on pre-broadcast and pre-publication advice and frequently works on high-stakes libel and misuse of confidential information claims.

Nick is insightful and calm.

Nick is on top of the facts and the details and a very nice guy to work with.

Nick can get to grips with extremely thorny issues and is very very impressive.

Ranked Lawyers at
Payne Hicks Beach LLP

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UK-wide

Defamation/Reputation Management

Dominic Crossley
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Dominic Crossley
Head of Defamation/Reputation Management
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Band 1
Hanna Basha
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Hanna Basha
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Band 1
Andrew Willan
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Andrew Willan
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Band 6
Nick Grant
Nick Grant
Associates to watch

Members

Provided by Payne Hicks Beach LLP

Ane Vernon

Dominic Crossley

Dominic Crossley

Head of Department

Francesca Sargent

Lucas Moore