Clara Hamer
Call: 2013
Call: 2013
Clara Hamer specialises in all areas of media, communications and information law.
She has acted in many high-profile and significant cases in this area, including representing the Financial Times in its defence of a £79m libel claim brought by financier Crispin Odey; successfully defending the former King of Spain, His Majesty Juan Carlos de Borbon y Borbon, in a harassment claim for £126m damages; and acting for the Sun newspaper in its successful defence of Johnny Depp’s libel action. Clara represented Bloomberg in the landmark Supreme Court case concerning the privacy rights of individuals under criminal investigation, ZXC v Bloomberg LP, and acted for Bloomberg (unled) in the Court of Appeal in the Court of Protection reporting restrictions case of Hinduja v Hinduja.
Clara is ranked by the directories as a leader in the field of media and information law. Clara is listed as a Leading Junior in the Legal 500 and Chambers and Partners for Defamation, Privacy and Data Protection. She won the Media and the Arts Junior of the Year award at the Legal 500 Bar Awards 2022 and was shortlisted for the same award in 2023 and 2024. Clara was also shortlisted in 2021 for Media, Defamation, Privacy and Data Protection Junior of the Year by the Chambers UK Bar Awards.
For the Financial Times in a £79m libel claim over articles alleging sexual assault and harassment by the Claimant over a number of decades (led by Gavin Millar KC).
For Meta Platforms Inc in a libel action concerning Instagram posts.
For the defendant in a libel action concerning the former president of Kazakhstan (led by Gavin Millar KC).
For the Sun in applications for disclosure of documents and journalists’ sources in the “Wagatha Christie” case (led by Adam Wolanski KC).
For the Sun in successfully defending the “wife beater” libel claim brought by Johnny Depp (led by Sasha Wass KC and Adam Wolanski KC).
For Facebook in applications for civil restraint orders.
For the defendant newspaper in related libel and malicious falsehood claims.
For the claimant in trial of meaning/opinion as a preliminary issue (led by Desmond Browne CBE KC).
For the Mail on Sunday in claim for libel and malicious falsehood (led by Catrin Evans KC and Andrew Caldecott KC).
For historian Tom Bower and publisher Faber & Faber in libel claim brought by Nick Brown MP (led by Andrew Caldecott KC).
For the BBC in libel, privacy and data protection claim (led by Catrin Evans KC).
For the Telegraph in preliminary determination of meaning in libel claim (led by David Price KC).
Work on ‘Plebgate’ case for the claimant police officer against Andrew Mitchell MP (led by Desmond Browne CBE KC and Catrin Evans KC).
For Countess Karen Spencer in a claim for misuse of private information brought by her former husband’s partner, Professor Catrine Jarman (led by David Sherborne).
For Bloomberg in trial of privacy/confidence and data protection claim over an article about a fraud, bribery and corruption investigation into the claimant at a time when he had not been charged with any offence (led at trial by Gavin Millar KC and on appeal to the Court of Appeal and Supreme Court by Antony White KC).
For the BBC in interim privacy injunction to restrain Panorama from revealing the claimant’s spent convictions (led by Andrew Caldecott KC).
For the BBC in libel, privacy, and data protection claim (led by Catrin Evans KC).
For the Sun in privacy and data protection claim brought by Danny Dyer.
For the Sunday Times in privacy and data protection claim over an article about benefit cuts (led by Catrin Evans KC).
For Wyatt Kutcher in application to approve child settlement agreement in privacy and data protection claim.
For the Sunday Times in privacy injunction (led by Catrin Evans KC).
For Bloomberg in trial of privacy/confidence and data protection claim over an article about a fraud, bribery and corruption investigation into the claimant at a time when he had not been charged with any offence (led at trial by Gavin Millar KC and on appeal to the Court of Appeal and Supreme Court by Antony White KC).
For defendant broker of litigation funding in claim for breach of a non-disclosure agreement concerning the funding of the Volkswagen diesel emissions litigation (led by Stuart Isaacs KC).
For the claimant company on a cyber-attack data breach injunction application involving allegations of blackmail (led by Adam Speker KC).
For Bloomberg in trial of privacy/confidence and data protection claim over an article about a fraud, bribery and corruption investigation into the claimant at a time when he had not been charged with any offence (led at trial by Gavin Millar KC and on appeal to the Court of Appeal and Supreme Court by Antony White KC).
For the claimant in data protection Subject Access Request claim and FOIA case to access archival material relating to the late Louis Mountbatten, 1st Earl Mountbatten of Burma.
For the BBC in libel, privacy and data protection claim (led by Catrin Evans KC).
For the Sun in privacy and data protection claim brought by Danny Dyer.
For the Sunday Times in privacy and data protection claim over an article about benefit cuts (led by Catrin Evans KC).
For Wyatt Kutcher in application to approve child settlement agreement in privacy and data protection claim.
Successfully defending the former King of Spain in a harassment claim for an injunction and £126m damages (led by Adam Wolanski KC).
For the claimant company on a cyber-attack data breach injunction application involving allegations of blackmail (led by Adam Speker KC).
Clara has extensive experience of providing pre-publication advice to major newspapers and book publishers.
Reporting restrictions case involving novel application of the Family Court Transparency Reporting Pilot Guidance to a non-Pilot case (led by Adam Wolanski KC).
For the Financial Times in applications to lift reporting restrictions and for access to documents in Bitcoin laundering case.
Sole counsel for Bloomberg LP in the Court of Appeal and the Court of Protection in reporting restrictions applications.
For ITN, the BBC and the Guardian in application for media access to body worn video and CCTV footage.
For the Sun in reporting restriction applications in magistrates’ court and Central Criminal Court.
For education magazine in application to lift reporting restrictions and injunction in judicial review proceedings.
For the BBC in application to lift reporting restrictions in public inquiry.
For the Sunday Times (Ireland) in application for media access to bankruptcy court file.
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