Defamation/Reputation Management

Privacy & Reputation

We empower creators and those who work with them, helping to maximize potential and preserve legacies. We understand that for many of our high-profile clients, ensuring their privacy is respected and reputation protected is of paramount importance. We ensure our clients achieve this by combining practical know-how, legal expertise and tactical thinking.

Much of the time our work is preventative: we work with our clients to manage situations and to prevent any adverse or intrusive publication. Carefully timed and directed action can often solve a potential issue without viral spread, unwanted publicity, or recourse to the courts.

Notable Experience

• Obtaining a front-page apology from a national magazine for a client as part of a settlement
• Obtaining an injunction to prevent an individual from harassing and blackmailing one of our clients
• Securing substantial damages for clients whose privacy / reputation has been infringed / damaged, including several very substantial pay outs within the “phone hacking” litigation
• Successfully preventing threatened newspaper publications of private / confidential matters
• Working with statutory press regulatory bodies – such as the Independent Press Standards Organisation (IPSO) to prevent or challenge reporting of events
• Providing day to day media management and advice during personally difficult times for our clients, whether by preventing publication or helping to manage / contain reporting of events