Our Defamation/Reputation Management Team has extensive experience of advising corporate clients and individuals on reputation management issues across a wide range of sectors and industries.
Our team possesses invaluable industry insight and expertise with experience of working in-house for leading UK national newspapers and international news agencies. This enables us to create effective strategies for our clients when dealing with any defamation or reputation crisis which they face.
Expertise
We advise on all aspects of reputation management including claims based on defamation/malicious falsehood, breach of confidence/privacy and harassment.
We act for both claimants and defendants (both corporate clients and individuals) across a wide range of industry sectors in disputes involving publication of defamatory content by email circulation or posting of digital content online or on social media, and/or user-generated content posted on media platforms. We act for clients in the High Court as well as representing their interests in complaints made to UK regulatory bodies including IPSO, Ofcom and ICO.
We have expertise in handling fast moving, crisis management situations and have extensive experience in seeking urgent removal of unwanted news coverage concerning our clients both in the UK and abroad, often working closely with our clients’ public relations advisers to achieve desired outcomes.
Highlights
- Acting for clients to remove defamatory allegations published by news organisations from circulation.
- Handling disputes for clients regarding threatened publication of defamatory allegations by news organisations.
- Acting for clients to secure redress for publication (by email circulation) of defamatory allegations by former employees.
- Acting for a client in defending High Court defamation proceedings concerning comments published by the defendant about a former employer.
- Acting for a sports professional in a threatened defamation and harassment claim regarding defamatory allegations published about the claimant by a former client.
- Acting for clients in pursuing the takedown of widespread defamatory social media content posted by former customers.
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