Jeremy Reed KC

Jeremy is an experienced intellectual property litigator. He is regularly instructed in disputes involving trade marks, copyright and designs, and patents. Jeremy has particular experience of a wide range of breach of confidence disputes, often involving a technical subject matter or electronic interception of confidential information. He brings a detailed and forensic approach to cases.

Much of Jeremy’s time over the past 4 years has been taken up with ‘phone hacking’ litigation, first against the News of the World, and more recently against the Mirror Group. Jeremy was instructed in the first ever phone hacking claim, that being Gordon Taylor’s 2007 claim against the now defunct News of the World. Jeremy played a pivotal role as co-counsel in the litigation brought by numerous claimants against the News of the World. He has acted for over 70 individuals including celebrities, sportsmen, politicians, and victims of crime and their families. He was also instructed as co-counsel at trial for the 8 representative claimants in their phone hacking claims against the Daily Mirror, Sunday Mirror and the People.

The phone hacking litigation has involved a number of contentious interim applications that have included the scope of the Norwich Pharmacal jurisdiction, public interest immunity, scope of redactions, reporting restrictions, and numerous applications for non-party disclosure. In 2012 Jeremy successfully appeared in the Supreme Court on a point concerning the privilege against self-incrimination in relation to intellectual property claims.