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Our approach
When conversation turns into conflict, you need a legal team with the experience and expertise to protect your interests and achieve swift, commercially realistic results in the most cost efficient and risk free manner possible.
Clients ranging from individuals and entrepreneurs to corporations and multi-national organisations trust our commercial litigation lawyers, based in Kent, to deliver results for them in even the most complex of cases. We make it a point to get to know our clients, to understand their objectives thoroughly, provide clear advice and commercially minded recommendations in plain English, and to make ourselves available whenever and wherever our clients need us.
Our commercial litigation lawyers specialise in helping settle disputes using mediation, arbitration and other ADR approaches, but are equally skilled and experienced in fighting our clients’ corner in court where necessary. We can also offer risk management and litigation avoidance advice, to help stop issues developing into full disputes.
Accreditations & awards
The team are excellent - they are always attuned to the commercial goals a client is seeking to achieve and are therefore pragmatic in their advice.
Reputation management, defamation & privacy disputes
Intelligent and innovative advice in all areas of media and reputation management, including defamation, malicious falsehood, harassment, blackmail, data protection, misuse of private information and cyber security, to protect one of the most important assets – your reputation.
Our team of expert litigators help individuals and organisations who are faced with reputation management, privacy and media law issues.
Sadly, a reputation which has taken years to build up, can be irreversibly damaged in moments, by adverse and intrusive online or social media activity.
Taking a common sense yet innovative approach, our tenacious lawyers act quickly to help protect our clients’ reputations, aiming wherever possible to rapidly shut down any threats from traditional or social media sources. We have an impressive track record of advising organisations, high net worth individuals, celebrities and those in the public eye.
Our team can help with all stages of advice and representation, to consider the options on becoming aware of a defamatory statement and/or act of harassment/blackmail, from sending/responding to a letter of claim or a cease and desist letter, acting to obtain/resist an urgent injunction application, through to pursuing a claim to trial and dealing with any subsequent enforcement action.
Defamation and malicious falsehood claims, unfortunately, often emanate from competitors, ex-partners, disgruntled employees or ex-employees and anonymous web users who resort to making defamatory statements that causes damage to reputations. Our clients, therefore, sometimes also require the help of our family and/or employment teams. We work closely with our colleagues across the firm to deliver a seamless service across these practice areas.
The law relating to defamation is complex, highly nuanced and is constantly changing, especially to keep up with the continuously developing world of social media. It is, therefore, recommended that formal legal advice from a lawyer with expertise in this area of law is obtained as early as possible.
Our expertise includes:
- Pre and post publication advice
- Defamation (libel and slander) – for both claimant and defendant
- Malicious falsehood
- Privacy and misuse of private information
- Injunctions
- Harassment and blackmail
- Online reputation management
- Cyber security and data protection (including GDPR, ‘right to be forgotten’ SARs and IP).
