Luke Browne
Call: 2017
Call: 2017
Luke Browne acts for claimants and defendants and accepts instructions across all areas of chambers’ work. He has appeared in the Court of Appeal, High Court, County Court and First-Tier Tribunal. He is called to the Bar of England and Wales, the Bar of Ireland and the Bar of Northern Ireland, and is a member of the Attorney General’s B Panel of Junior Counsel to the Crown.
Luke is listed as a ranked junior in defamation and privacy in Chambers and Partners and as a rising star in defamation and privacy in the Legal 500. He is the current statutes, rules and damages awards author for Gatley on Libel and Slander, the leading practitioner text on defamation law and practice, and co-author of the chapter on harassment by publication in The Law of Privacy and the Media. He has provided pre-publication advice to national newspapers and other publications and provided training on media law issues to lawyers and journalists in the UK and abroad.
Before coming to the Bar, Luke worked at the Foreign & Commonwealth Office, the Permanent Mission of Ireland to the UN in New York, the Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade of Ireland, and the International Rescue Committee, advising on human rights, conflict, humanitarian and UN issues.
Luke 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.
Acting for the BBC (with Jonathan Scherbel-Ball, led by Catrin Evans KC).
Acting for the claimant (led by Gervase de Wilde).
Acting for Channel Four and ITN (with Gervase de Wilde, led by Adam Wolanski KC).
Acting for the claimant (led by Gervase de Wilde).
Acting for the claimant (led by Gervase de Wilde).
Acting for the publisher of La Repubblica and L’Espresso (led by Aidan Eardley KC).
Acting for Baroness Lawrence of Clarendon OBE; Elizabeth Hurley; Sir Elton John CH CBE; David Furnish; Sir Simon Hughes; Prince Harry, the Duke of Sussex; and Sadie Frost Law in their claims for misuse of private information against Associated Newspapers Ltd (led by David Sherborne).
Acting for the claimant (led by Gervase de Wilde).
Acting for the claimants (led by Adam Speker KC).
Luke is co-author of the chapter on harassment by publication in The Law of Privacy and the Media (4th ed., 2024).
Acting for the claimants (led by Adam Speker KC).
Acting for the claimants (led by Adam Speker KC).
Acting for the claimant (led by Gervase de Wilde).
Acting for the claimant (led by Gervase de Wilde).
Luke has provided pre-publication advice to various publications, including The Times, The Sunday Times and The Telegraph.
Appearing for the BBC (interested party) in the Court of Appeal.
Acting for the BBC on its application in the Supreme Court of the British Indian Ocean Territory to attend the proceedings on Diego Garcia.
Acting for four media organisations on an application to lift reporting restrictions in the Central Criminal Court.
Acting for the BBC.
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Called to the Bar of England & Wales (2017)