Luke Browne

Luke Browne joined 5RB in 2020. He accepts instructions across all areas of Chambers’ work, including defamation, privacy, harassment and data protection. He is listed as a rising star in defamation and privacy in the Legal 500 and as Up and Coming in Chambers and Partners (defamation / privacy).

During pupillage, Luke’s supervisors were Adam Speker KC, Aidan Eardley KC, Kate Wilson and Jonathan Scherbel-Ball. Following pupillage Luke spent eight months on secondment with the BBC Litigation Department. He has provided pre-publication advice to various publications such as The Times, The Sunday Times and The Telegraph. He is the current statutes, rules and damages awards author for Gatley on Libel and Slander (13th ed., 2022), the leading practitioners’ text on defamation law and practice, and is a contributor to The Law of Privacy and the Media (4th ed., 2024), co-authoring the chapter on harassment by publication. He has provided training on media law issues to lawyers and journalists in the UK and abroad.

Luke was called to the Bar of England and Wales by Middle Temple, where he was a Queen Mother Scholar. In 2020, he was called to the Bar of Ireland by the Chief Justice. He previously worked at the Foreign & Commonwealth Office, the Permanent Mission of Ireland to the UN in New York, the Department of Foreign Affairs & Trade of Ireland, and the International Rescue Committee, advising on human rights, conflict, humanitarian and UN issues.