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Baroness Buscombe, a shadow frontbench spokesman for the Conservative Party in the House of Lords, has been appointed Chair of the Press Complaint Commission to succeed Sir Christopher Meyer from March 2009. Peta Buscombe was… Read More »

The annual Legal 500 review of the legal profession has named 5RB as a leading set in Defamation and Privacy and  Sport, Media & Entertainment Law. The independent survey praised the set for its ‘outstanding leaders, the quality of junior… Read More »

5RB has been named as a leading set for Defamation & Privacy and Media & Entertainment Law in the annual Chambers & Partners review of the legal profession.   The directory ranked 5RB as joint top in… Read More »

The heads of the two leading media law chambers today rejected claims that Mr Justice Eady is on a “one-man mission” to introduce a privacy law by the backdoor.   In a joint letter to… Read More »

Paul Dacre, the editor-in-chief of the Daily Mail has used his speech to the Society of Editors to attack the BBC, judge-made privacy law and conditional fee agreements. Mr Dacre, speaking in Bristol, voiced his… Read More »

The Supreme Court of British Columbia has refused to find a man who posted hyperlinks to allegedly defamatory articles responsible for the content of those articles. Political activist Wayne Crookes and his company brought proceedings in respect of four… Read More »

Sienna Miller, the well-known British actress, has been granted a speedy trial of her action against paparazzi agency, Big Pictures (UK) Ltd, and its owner and alter ego, Darryn Lyons.   Ms Miller claims injunctive… Read More »

Victoria Beckham has lost her bid to cut short a privacy action against Grazia magazine after the High Court refused to grant her summary judgment.   The star brought proceedings over an article in the April edition of… Read More »

5RB’s Mark Warby QC will be speaking at the conference on Data Protection and Privacy organised by JUSTICE and Sweet & Maxwell to be held at Pinsent Masons on Wednesday 3 December 2008. Mark’s topic will be… Read More »

The House of Lords today refused Big Picture (UK) Ltd’s petition for leave to appeal against the Court of Appeal’s interim ruling in the privacy claim involving photographs of J. K. Rowling’s son.    In March this year the Court of… Read More »

The Press Complaints Commission has upheld a complaint against the Barking and Dagenham Recorder after it published photographs taken by a journalist who accompanied police on a raid of a woman’s home. It went on… Read More »

A judge today allowed the Mail on Sunday to publish details of an adoption case involving a child who will need an organ transplant.   Hampshire County Council had earlier obtained an order preventing the… Read More »

Anna Coppola will be on maternity leave from 1st December 2008 and is planning to return to Chambers in June 2009. For any enquiries, please contact the clerks, Kim Janes, John Sizer or Andrew Love… Read More »

Express Newspapers has apologised to seven friends of Kate and Gerry McCann over a series of articles – published in the Daily Express, the Sunday Express and the Daily Star between July and December last year… Read More »

Media companies are becoming less willing to fight defamation actions all the way through to a verdict, according to a study by Sweet & Maxwell. The survey, based on the publisher’s online archive of law… Read More »

Mohammed Taranissi, the IVF doctor suing the BBC in relation to an edition of Panorama entitled ‘IVF Undercover’ and his clinic ARGC have been awarded their legal costs of responding to a defence of Reynolds qualified… Read More »

A jury has awarded £30,000 to the former chief of rail union ASLEF in respect of allegations published in Loco Journal in July 2006. Shaun Brady, who had previously brought a successful claim for unfair… Read More »

Sienna Miller has accepted £15,000 damages in an out-of-court settlement of the privacy action initiated against the publishers of the Daily Star over a paparazzi photo published in the newspaper.   The actress had brought proceedings over the… Read More »

For the second time in four years, 5RB last night was named ‘Defamation and Privacy Set of the Year’ at a ceremony at London’s Dorchester Hotel.   The award panel said of 5RB: “5RB is… Read More »

5RB held its second Conference at BAFTA, Piccadilly yesterday.  The keynote speaker at the Conference, which sold out, was Joshua Rozenberg, whose talk entitled ‘Another strap across the bottom’ discussed developments in privacy law including the… Read More »