JUNIOR PROFILE

Caroline Addy

UK Bar 2026

Doughty Street Chambers

Ranked in 1 practice area

Defamation/Privacy

All Circuits

5 years ranked

About

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Practice Areas

Defamation, Harassment, Advertising, Media, and Freedom of Expression

Career

Caroline is an able and experienced senior junior with a broad practice in all areas of media and information law. She acts for both claimants and defendants of all kinds, from private individuals to companies, NHS trusts, trade unions, police officers, website operators and charities.

She was the defendants counsel in the first privacy action over a blog to be tried in England and Wales (Sorrell v Fullsix and Ors). She has particular experience of seeking and defending urgent injunction applications.

Caroline provides pre-publication advice to major publishing houses, particularly in relation to contentious biographies and autobiographies, and to magazine publishers.

Professional Memberships

Elected to the Court of Common Council of the City of London Corporation for the ward of Farringdon Without (March 2017 to date)

Publications

Contributor to Arlidge, Eady & Smith on Contempt, 4th edition, 2011

Contributor to Carter-Ruck on Libel and Privacy, 6th edition, 2010

Contributor to Halsbury’s Laws, Defamation, 32nd edition, 2012

Data Breaches: Assessing the Harm, One Brick Court Seminar, Broken Boundaries: New Frontiers in Media and Information Law, June 2017

Single publication rule: Is the change introduced by the 2013 Defamation Act the boost to free speech it was expected to be? Are there ways around it? Defamation and Privacy Law Conference (Central Law Training), 2016

False Information: Harassment, One Brick Court Seminar, False Information: The New Legal Battlegrounds, April 2016

Chambers Review

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Defamation/Privacy - All Circuits

Band 4

Individual Editorial

Caroline Addy is an experienced barrister who represents both claimants and defendants in cases concerning libel, privacy, breach of confidence, contempt and freedom of information, as well as human rights law. She has particular expertise in search engine and ISP liability issues.

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