David Sherborne

David Sherborne is a leading barrister in the field of media and communication, specialising in privacy, confidentiality and defamation, as well as matrimonial and sports law. He is particularly well-known in the industry and the press for his extensive reputation management practice and his ground-breaking pre-publication injunction work.

Although the majority of the high-net-worth individuals, world politicians, entrepreneurs, blue-chip companies, and other influential organisations David has acted for are confidential, his representation of the following clients is a matter of public record: Diana, the late Princess of Wales; Benazhir Bhutto, Cherie and Tony Blair, Donald and Melania Trump, Chelsea Clinton, Sheikh Abdulla Al-Khalifa, Sir Paul McCartney, Michael Douglas, Jude Law, Kate Winslet, Sienna Miller, Kate Moss, Kelly Hoppen, David Walliams, Frankie Boyle, Sir Elton John and David Furnish, the Spice Girls, Paul Weller, Amy Winehouse, Harry Styles, Cheryl Cole, the Beckhams, Paul Gascoigne, Ashley Cole, Don King and Mike Tyson.

He has been responsible for a number of landmark privacy cases (such as Douglas v Hello, McKennitt v Ash, Mosley v NGN, Weller v Associated Newspapers, Gulati v MGN, ERY v Associated and PJS v NGN), anti-harassment orders and reporting or confidentiality protection in significant money divorce cases.

He is currently Lead Counsel for the victims in the multi-million-pound hacking group litigation against both News Group Newspapers and Mirror Group Newspapers and represents several hundred individual clients, having obtained record damages in the trial of eight representative claims and successfully upheld the media challenge to these awards in the Court of Appeal. He was also Lead Counsel for the victims of press intrusion at the Leveson Inquiry.

He is also acting for HRH The Duchess of Sussex in her misuse of private information, breach of data protection and infringement of copyright action against Associated Newspapers.