Iain Wilson

Practice Areas

Iain is the managing partner of Brett Wilson LLP and a prominent media lawyer, dealing with defamation, privacy and harassment law. He predominantly acts for politicians, celebrities, HNWIs, corporates, public bodies, professionals and law firms.

Iain heads up the firm’s media and communications law department, which is well-known for both claims against the traditional media and cases concerning online publication. In respect of the latter, Iain acted in two of the leading cases in this field: The Law Society & Ors v Kordowski [2011] EWHC 3185 (QB) (‘Solicitors from Hell case’) and Tamiz v Google Inc [2013] EWCA Civ 68. Recent reported successes include Galloway v Ali-Khan [2018] EWHC 780 (QB), Morgan v Times Newspapers Ltd [2019] EWHC 1525 (QB), Suttle v Walker [2019] EWHC 396 (QB), Wright v Ver [2020] EWCA Civ 672, JQL v NTP [2020] EWHC 1349 (QB), Blackledge v Persons Unknown [2021] EWHC 1994, Haviland v The Andrew Lownie Literary Agency Ltd & Anor [2022] EWHC 1688 (QB) and Dew v Mills-Nanyn [2022] EWHC 1925 (QB.

Publications

Iain is frequently provides legal commentary in the national media and writes for Westlaw and Lexis Nexis, as well as the Daily Mail and Law Society Gazette.