Helena Shipman

Practice Areas

Helena specialises in reputation, media and privacy disputes. She advises on defamation, misuse of private information and data protection claims (including pre-publication and post-publication issues with international aspects). She is highlighted as rising star and recommended lawyer in Legal 500 and an Associate to Watch in Chambers & Partners.

Helena has managed cases against national newspapers, search engines, social networks and individuals, and has represented clients in the London High Court, Court of Appeal and European Court of Justice, on behalf of both claimants and defendants. She has experience of non-party disclosure applications.

Helena regularly engages in pre-publication work for corporate and individual clients, against a number of publishers and broadcasters including The Daily Mail and Mail Online, The Telegraph, The Times, the BBC, ITV, and Channel 4 which has resulted in mitigating significant potential harm to clients, by way of amendment to or withdrawal of the publications or broadcasts in question.

Helena also has a commercial and international sanctions practice, which includes applications to the General Court of the European Union to annul sanctions implemented by the Council of the European Union and the European Commission on behalf of prominent businessmen.