Max Campbell

Practice Areas

Max Campbell specialises in reputation and crisis management, acting for both claimants and defendants in libel, privacy, data protection, and harassment claims. Long-standing clients include C-suite executives, journalists, and other lawyers.

Recent highlights include acting for the exiled leader of a major political party in South Asia in the successful defence of a libel claim concerning remarks made in a YouTube broadcast, and acting for a wealthy professional in a successful claim against a sex worker who was blackmailing him by threatening to disclose details of their dealings to his family.

Areas of particular interest include online defamation and harassment, stalking, ‘revenge porn’, and the ‘right to be forgotten’. Max also has a wealth of experience of both criminal and general civil litigation, enabling him to assist people in respect of a wide array of complex and sensitive disputes.

Max enjoys higher rights of audience in civil proceedings, and has appeared as a solicitor-advocate before Judges in the High Court.

Professional Memberships

Society of Media Lawyers