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Sara Mansoori
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Position
Barrister with a wide range of experience and practices in all areas of media and information law (including defamation, privacy and confidence, data protection, freedom of information, harassment, and copyright), human rights law and public law. Cases of interest include: Joan Hammell v (1) News Group Newspapers Ltd (2) Mulcaire, 2011 (acting for the former special advisor to Lord Prescott in relation to phone hacking allegations); Trafigura v Leigh Day, 2008/9 (acting for Leigh Day in libel action involving one of the largest independent commodities traders and events which took place in Amsterdam and the Ivory Coast which raised issues of personal injury law, foreign law, shipping law and environmental law); Sophie Dahl v Express Newspapers, 2009 (counsel for the Claimant in passing off and data protection claim) Sir Martin Sorrell v Bennatti & ors, 2007 (junior counsel for Sir Martin Sorrell in the first joint Internet libel and privacy case in relation to online publications) and David & Victoria Beckham v News Groups Newspapers Ltd, 2006 (junior counsel for the Beckhams in their libel action against The News of the World).
Career
Called 1997; Lincoln’s Inn. Joined Matrix in 2011; senior lawyer in Ministry of Justice 2009-11; barrister at 5RB Chambers from 1998-2009. Publications of note: co-author of ‘The Law of Privacy and the Media’ (2002, OUP).
Languages
Conversational Farsi and French.
Member
Bar Human Rights Committee.
Education
Leeds University (LLB (Hons) (First Class)).
Practice Areas
Civil liberties and human rights; Defamation and privacy; Media and entertainment
