We have a strong and highly dedicated defamation practice advising corporate clients and high profile individuals on reputation management.  Our practice ranges from guiding clients through pre-publication/broadcast negotiations to High Court actions. We work closely with our clients in relation to adverse, inaccurate or unfair reports in print and broadcast media. We have also helped clients to develop and implement long term strategies, to enable them to respond decisively to negative media.

The firm has handled numerous complaints against a diverse range of publications including: the Independent, the Observer, the Guardian, the Times, the Evening Standard, the Mail, the Mail on Sunday, the Mirror, the Express and the Sun. Complaints the firm has dealt with against broadcasts include: Watchdog, Panorama, Dispatches and Whistleblower. 

Our clients are from sectors including finance, utilities, manufacturing, pharmaceutical, food products and retail, and include well-known corporations, charities, partnerships and individuals. 

The team operates a 24-hour service to assist clients who require urgent advice and action.

Relevant experience includes advising:

• A number of individuals and corporations seeking the removal of defamatory material from the internet
• The largest network of charitable, independent hospitals in the UK, in defending its reputation in relation to a broadcast by the BBC and a number of newspaper reports
• A financial provider on its response to defamatory material proposed to be broadcast about their subsidiary by ITV on London Tonight with Trevor McDonald
• An individual in relation to defamatory press reports regarding their departure from a football club. 
• One of the largest global banks in relation to the proposed broadcast of an investigative programme regarding call centers in India and successfully preventing the programme being broadcast
• A financial provider in relation to secretly filmed material by ITV
• Designing a successful media strategy for one of the UK’s largest utility companies
• A holiday operator in relation to a broadcast television programme, the resultant press attention following the broadcast and on a subsequent complaint made by the holiday operator to Ofcom
• A food manufacturer in relation to malicious falsehoods made about it on a supermarket’s product labels
• One of the world’s biggest multinational companies in relation to a proposed BBC feature film about the client’s activities overseas