Jane Phillips
Call: 1989
Call: 1989
Jane Phillips has been Joint Head of Chambers with Adrienne Page KC since 2022.
Jane has an exceptional reputation for her libel and privacy work and regularly acts in prominent cases such as the Duchess of Sussex’s successful privacy claim against Associated Newspapers. She is one of the leading senior juniors in her field, combining a mixed Claimant and Defendant practice across all areas of media law, including in the most highly sensitive matters.
Jane was named by The Lawyer as one of its top 100 lawyers in the “Hot 100” for 2023 and is, and has consistently been, listed as a Band One Leading Junior in both ‘Chambers & Partners’ and ‘Legal 500’ directories for defamation & privacy. She was Junior of the Year in the “Media, Defamation, Privacy and Data Protection” category in the 2021 Chambers & Partners Bar awards and is currently shortlisted as Junior of the Year in the “Media and the Arts” category in the 2025 Legal 500 Bar awards.
Jane has appeared at first instance, the Court of Appeal and in the Privy Council in numerous leading cases and has been at the forefront of developing the law in her field.
She regularly advises in non-contentious matters where reputational and privacy issues arise such as inquiries, investigations, employment and company disputes and other high-profile and press-sensitive controversies. She is often called upon to advise on, apply for, or resist, emergency injunctions.
She is a contributing author to The Law of Privacy and the Media (misuse of private information) and Bullen and Leake (libel and slander and malicious falsehood) and she has regularly spoken and written on media-law related subjects.
Jane advises in relation to claims in other common-law jurisdictions, including Hong Kong, Singapore, Jamaica, Trinidad and Tobago, Northern Ireland and the Isle of Man.
Jane has acted in many of the leading defamation and malicious falsehood cases.
Appeared on behalf of Al-Jazeera at the trial of a preliminary issue on meaning in the libel action brought against it and Roger Waters.
Acted for the Duke of Sussex in his libel claim against the publishers of the Mail on Sunday.
Acted for Jimmy Carr in a (discontinued) libel action brought against him by his father.
Acted for Alanna McArdle in her successful strike out of the Particulars of Claim alleging libel and malicious falsehood in relation to her blog post.
Acted for the BBC in the libel action brought against it by the former President of Ukraine.
Acted for Andrew Tinkler in his claim for libel and malicious falsehood.
Acted for Sabby Mionis in his successful appeal to the Court of Appeal on the issue of enforcement of a Tomlin Order.
Acted for the BBC in the successful defence at trial of a libel arising out of the programme, Sunday Politics, brought by the Chief Imam of Lewisham Islamic Centre.
Acted at first instance and in the Court of Appeal for the successful defendant in a strike out application for abuse of process.
Acted for the BBC in a libel action arising out of Newsnight programme.
Acted for Mohamed Taranissi in his successful claim against the BBC arising out of a Panorama programme “IVF uncovered”.
Acted for Stuart Bray in his successful libel claim against Deutsche Bank.
Acted for AOL in its successful application that ISPs were not publishers at common law. Important rulings on section 1 of the Defamation Act 1996 and the E-Commerce regulations.
Acted for The Gleaner in its successful defence in the Privy Council case on default judgments and jurisdiction.
Acted for Paul Rackham in his successful libel trial.
Acted for The Gleaner in its successful defence in the Privy Council case on qualified privilege.
Jane has acted in some of the most high profile privacy cases in recent years, including the Duchess of Sussex’s successful claim against Associated Newspapers.
Acted for the Duchess of Sussex in her successful misuse of private information and infringement of copyright action at first instance and in the Court of Appeal.
Acted for Camilla Fayed in her defence of a claim for misuse of private information brought by her brother, Omar Fayed.
Acted for the Defendants in their successful resistance to the continuation of an injunction for misuse.
Acted for the Defendant on the return date for an injunction including anonymity provisions.
Acted for Katie Price in her defence of an application for an interim injunction for misuse of private information, breach of confidence, breach of contract and breach of the Data Protection Act 1998.
Independent Barrister to the Scheme representing applicants bringing claims for compensation for phone hacking under the scheme established by News International.
Obtained misuse of private information and harassment injunction for person being blackmailed at extremely short notice.
Acted for Katie Price in her defence of an application for an interim injunction for misuse of private information, breach of confidence, breach of contract and breach of the Data Protection Act 1998.
Jane is often called upon to advise on, apply for, or resist, emergency injunctions for breach of confidence, misuse of private information and harassment.
Obtained misuse of private information and harassment injunction for person being blackmailed at extremely short notice.
Acted for Defendant being threatened with injunction for harassment.
Acted for Paul and Carley Hawkins in the defence of a claim for libel and harassment and their counter-claim for libel and harassment.
Acted for the Defendant in the successful opposition to an injunction for blackmail and misuse private information.
Acted for the Defendant on the return date for an injunction including anonymity provisions.
Acted for Katie Price in her defence of an application for an interim injunction for misuse of private information, breach of confidence, breach of contract and breach of the Data Protection Act 1998.
Obtained injunction for claimant in breach of confidence.
Successfully opposed claimant’s application for an emergency injunction.
Acted for defendant in application for harassment injunction.
Emergency injunction obtained to restrict breach of confidence.
Emergency privacy injunction obtained for the claimant against national newspaper.
Jane regularly provides pre-publication advice to leading publishers and broadcasters. She has advised on some of the most high-profile publications of their day.
Jane regularly provides advice to internal and external inquiries and investigations into high-profile and press-sensitive controversies.
Acted for EFG Private Bank in its application for permission to appeal against an order of the Employment Appeal Tribunal requiring the Bank to provide documents to The Guardian referred to at an Employment Tribunal Hearing following the Supreme Court’s ruling in Dring v Cape Intermediate Holdings Limited [2020] AC 629.
Obtained an order relating to the reporting of the Defendant’s divorce proceedings in the Family Division before Mr Justice Moor.
Acted for the BBC and PA in an application for permission to use cockpit footage relating to the Shoreham Air Crash.
Acted for the BBC in an application for a production order in relation to a programme entitled “Who Bombed Birmingham?”.
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