The Legal 500

Work Department

Media and culture – litigation.

Position

Jennifer specialises in advising wealthy international families and high-profile individuals, as well as companies facing adverse media coverage, including bringing defamation and privacy actions and making complaints to the media regulators. She acts, for example, for Sir David Barclay and Sir Frederick Barclay, their family and companies. Jennifer also has extensive public law and judicial review experience, having handled many high-profile judicial review actions, for example, acting for Tube Lines when it successfully intervened in judicial review proceedings, preventing the Mayor of London from stopping the PPP of the London Underground. She has advised the Spoliation Advisory Panel on disputes between claimants and UK museums, galleries and collections concerning art lost during the Nazi regime, as well as judicially reviewing the Lord Chancellor to ensure that Sark’s new constitution is ECHR compliant.

Career

Trained Lovell White & King; qualified 1981; partner 1989; head of media and public law 1994-2001; partner and head of ?media and public law Addleshaw Goddard 2004-07; partner and head of media and public law Withers July 2007 to date. Jennifer regularly comments on media and public law in the media and at conferences.

Languages

French.

Member

Administrative Law Bar Association; director of JUSTICE and chair of executive board; director of Protimos; patron of the Tim Parry Jonathan Bull Peace Foundation.

Education

St Anthony’s and Bede Schools, Sunderland; University College London (LLB Hons).

Leisure

Gym, theatre, cinema, walking the dogs, caring for her family.

Practice Areas

Administrative and public law; Defamation and privacy; Civil liberties and human rights