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Provided by Tamsin Allen
Partner and Head of Media and Information Law.
Tamsin manages a wide-ranging media practice with emphasis on defamation and privacy, whistleblowing, information and data protection, copyright and human rights.
Tamsin has acted for Christopher Wylie, the Cambridge Analytica whistleblower, since Autumn 2017, as well as Shahmir Sanni who exposed criminal offences inside the designated campaign to leave the EU (Vote Leave), and Carole Cadwalladr in a libel claim brought against her by Leave EU founder, Arron Banks. Tamsin set up the Claimant Group in the hacking litigation against News Group Newspapers and has represented very large numbers of high profile people in phone-hacking claims.
She is experienced in public inquiries and represented Core Participant Victims in the Leveson Inquiry. She now represents a number of Core Participants in the Undercover Policing Inquiry and the Independent Inquiry into Child Sexual Abuse. She also provides advice to publishers and NGO’s and charities on publication risks, GDPR and in litigation; including Mirror Group, the National Union of Journalists, Animal Aid, LUSH, Amnesty International, The New Statesman, Greenpeace, Index on Censorship and many others.
Tamsin qualified 1998. She joined Bindmans in 1999 and became a partner in 2004.
On the Board of Hacked Off.
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Tamsin is always excellent, clear, helpful and accurate.
Tamsin is blindingly clever and gets straight to the point.
She is not only excellent but compassionate.
Tamsin has always been on point with all her tasks and communications. Her general level of service is exemplary.
Tamsin is always excellent, clear, helpful and accurate.
Tamsin is blindingly clever and gets straight to the point.
She is not only excellent but compassionate.
Tamsin has always been on point with all her tasks and communications. Her general level of service is exemplary.
