Ben Hamer
Call: 2017
Call: 2017
Ben Hamer is recognised as an outstanding junior in defamation, privacy and data protection law. He specialises in privacy, defamation and data protection law, acting for both claimants and defendants. Ben regularly appears in some of the most high-profile cases at the Media Bar.
Ben is listed as a Leading Junior in defamation and privacy in Chambers & Partners as well as a Rising Star in the Legal 500 and as Up and Coming by Chambers and Partners for data protection.
Acting for the claimant in various libel claims arising for publications made about the green energy industrialist Dale Vince (led by William Bennett KC).
Acted for the defendant unled at trial in a slander claim, which was successfully defended on a number of grounds, including limitation and qualified privilege.
Acted for the claimant unled at trial for an injunction for breach of contractual undertakings made by the defendant not to repeat defamatory allegations.
Acted for the successful defendant, Coleen Rooney, in the Rebekah Vardy v Coleen Rooney libel action (led by David Sherborne).
Acted for the claimant the first case where a section 13 order has been made against Google (the operator of the defamatory blog) to remove a site.
Acting for Prince Harry, the Duke of Sussex; Sir Elton John; David Furnish; Elizabeth Hurley; Baroness Doreen Lawrence; Sadie Frost and Sir Simon Hughes in their claims for misuse of private information against Associated Newspapers Ltd, the publisher of the Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday.
Acting for actors Kristen Bell and Dax Shepard in a privacy claim against the Mail Online.
Acted for the third parties (by way of an additional claim) in a data protection/breach of confidence claim (led by Jacob Dean). The Labour Party discontinued the claim against the third parties.
Acting for the claimant in a cyber injunction for breach of confidence against a hacker (led by Adam Speker KC).
Acting for the claimant in an injunction application for breach of confidence against a hacker (led by Adam Speker KC).
Acted for the successful defendant in the strike out of multiple causes of action, including breach of confidence, and transfer from the High Court in a large data breach claim.
Acted for the third parties (by way of an additional claim) in a data protection/breach of confidence claim (led by Jacob Dean). The Labour Party discontinued the claim against the third parties.
Acted for the successful defendant in the strike out of multiple causes of action and transfer from the High Court in a large data breach claim.
Acted for the successful appellant in the Court of Appeal on the extra-territorial reach of the GDPR and s.9 of the Defamation Act 2013 (led by Greg Callus).
Acting for the claimant in a cyber injunction against a hacker (led by Adam Speker KC).
Electoral injunction application in relation to false statements of fact (led by Greg Callus).
Acted for the claimant in leading case on the scope of undertakings in online harassment and privacy cases.
Acting for the claimant in an injunction application against a hacker (led by Adam Speker KC).
Acting for the claimant in a harassment and privacy claim where the defendant’s undertakings to the Court were breached.
Acting for the Claimant in the first Court of Appeal decision relating to a Reporting Restriction Order made under Rule 50 by the Employment Tribunal.
Acting for the claimant in a harassment and privacy claim where the defendant’s undertakings to the Court were breached.
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