Our Media team has extensive experience of protecting and managing individual and corporate reputation, image and brand. Partner Chris Hutchings is a recognised expert in this field having acted for and against high profile corporate and individual clients for over twenty years. He is a Band 2 Leading Individual in the Chambers and Partners Guide. In recent years, we have been at the cutting edge of developments in both libel and privacy. Our focus is always to protect reputation and image and prevent damage, where possible. However, when necessary, we will fight tenaciously on your behalf with your long-term interests at the centre of our strategy.
We have the benefit of expertise in taking action both for and against the media and websites. We are therefore highly adept and experienced at devising strategies which will be most suitable for your desired outcome and commercial needs. In relation to the Internet, we act swiftly and decisively.
We also have expertise in handling complaints made to regulatory authorities, including advertising regulator the ASA, as well as acting and advising on issues of commercial confidentiality and private information. We liaise closely, as necessary, with your PRs ensuring a coordinated approach to the media.
We are regularly instructed at short notice and out-of-office hours, pre-broadcast and pre-publication, by clients under attack and frequently modify TV programmes broadcast on a range of national TV channels.
Clients include Hello! Magazine, children’s television creator Andy Davenport and actor and film director Noel Clarke.
Our work includes:
• Defamation, malicious falsehood and reputation management
• Privacy and image
• Breach of confidence
• Media regulatory authorities
• Online reputational issues
