About Lauren
Lauren is a Senior Associate working across our Intellectual Property Disputes and Media Disputes teams.
Lauren has experience with a range of commercial litigation matters with a particular focus on the media sector with defamation, privacy, reputation management, data protection and copyright infringement claims.
Lauren has extensive experience with phone-hacking claims, assisting with claims brought by individuals against both News Group Newspapers and Mirror Group Newspapers.
Lauren has experience with internet take down requests in relation to defamatory content published online, and removal from search engines based on the ‘right to be forgotten’.
Lauren assists in copyright infringement claims brought by leading UK collecting societies Phonographic Performance Limited and PRS For Music.
Lauren also assists with general commercial litigation matters for a range of clients including timeshare and holiday companies as well as a large hotel brand.
Lauren is recognised as a Recommended Lawyer by Legal 500.
Lauren graduated from the University of Sussex in 2013 before completing the LPC at the University of Law, attaining a Distinction. Lauren joined Hamlins in 2015, becoming a Trainee Solicitor in 2016 and qualifying in 2018.
Work Highlights
- Turley v Unite and Walker – acting for the Claimant in a claim for libel, breach of the Data Protection Act, and misuse of private information/ breach of confidence in relation to an article published on an online blog.
- Ali and Aslam v Channel 5 Broadcasting Limited – acting for the Claimants in the landmark case against Channel 5 for the misuse of private information relating to the broadcast of a couple’s eviction from their home on the television programme “Can’t Pay? We’ll Take it Away”.
- Various v News Group Newspapers – assisting the team in their role as Lead Solicitor in the group phone-hacking litigation as well as advising Claimants on their individual claims against the News of the World and the Sun for misuse of private information by voicemail interception and other unlawful information gathering.
- Various v Mirror Group Newspapers – advising individual Claimants in bringing claims against the Mirror Group newspapers for misuse of private information by voicemail interception and other unlawful information gathering.