About Lauren
Lauren is a Senior Associate working across our Commercial & IP Disputes and Media Disputes teams.
Lauren has experience with a range of commercial litigation matters with a particular focus on the media sector. She has acted for a number of high-profile individuals including members of the royal family, actors, singers, sportspeople and politicians, as well as private individuals and companies. Lauren advises on all areas of media disputes including defamation, privacy, data protection, breach of confidence, malicious falsehood, reputation management and copyright infringement.
Lauren has extensive experience acting for individuals bringing claims against publishers and broadcasters for the misuse of their private information. She has also successfully assisted in preventing publication of her client’s private information.
She has experience providing pre-publication advice and removal of defamatory content published online.
In addition, Lauren 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.
Work Highlights
- Prince Harry, the Duke of Sussex v Associated Newspapers Limited – acting for the Claimant in his misuse of private information claim against the Defendant in respect of unlawful information gathering at the newspaper.
- R .(on the application of Shawbrook Bank Ltd) v Financial Ombudsman Service Ltd – acting for two timeshare companies as interested parties in the Judicial Review against FOS.
- 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 Limited – assisting in the firm’s 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 MGN Limited– advising Claimants in bringing claims against the Mirror Group newspapers for misuse of private information by voicemail interception and other unlawful information gathering.