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David Glen
Career
David’s practice encompasses the full ambit of media, entertainment and information law. He has appeared in several of the highest profile defamation and privacy actions of recent years and consistently acts on behalf of leading firms of solicitors in the field and for a large number of the most prominent media organisations and companies (including Associated Newspapers, Google, Facebook, Guardian News & Media and Times Newspapers).
Equally highly regarded for his work on data protection and freedom of information matters, he has represented public and regulatory bodies and the media in cases heard before both the courts and the Information Tribunal. He also holds a very substantial practice in the fields of public and entertainment law, where he regularly advises the media regulator, Ofcom, and has acted for the United Kingdom Government in the successful defence of the two most important UK media law cases to reach the European Court of Human Rights in recent years.
David is listed as a leading junior by The Legal 500 in the fields of Defamation and Privacy, Data Protection, and Media & Entertainment Law.
Contributor to Arlidge, Eady & Smith on Contempt, 5th edition, 2017
Co-author, Atkin’s Court Forms on Defamation
Memberships
Member of the Bar Pro Bono Unit
Education
MA (Hons) History (First Class), University of Edinburgh
Post-graduate law diploma (Distinction), The College of Law
Queen Mother Scholarship (Middle Temple)
Lawyer Rankings
London Bar > Media and entertainment
(Leading Juniors)Ranked: Tier 2London Bar > Defamation and privacy
(Leading Juniors)Ranked: Tier 1David Glen –11KBW
‘David has a scrupulous attention to detail and a clear and precise way of conveying very complex issues. He is deeply reliable and solicitors would be lost without him.’
Described as the ‘go-to’ set for information law, the barristers at 11KBW are frequently instructed in cases concerning media law, data privacy and European law in the online world for more news outlets and social media companies alike. Anya Proops KC recently acted for TikTok in the significant SMO v TikTok case concerning the way the Chinese-owned social media platform processes the data of British children. In Kirk, Marshall & Newton v Associated Newspapers Limited, David Glen is representing a newspaper regarding its coverage of the alleged and highly-publicised blackmail case between actress Charlotte Kirk and film industry executive Ron Meyer. Further strengthening the practice is Hannah Ready, who represented the claimant Chandler v Bryant, concerning tweets published by Labour MP Chris Bryant republishing allegations of money laundering made under parliamentary privilege – the matter settled with an apology from Bryant.
London Bar > Data protection
(Leading Juniors)Ranked: Tier 1David Glen – 11KBW ‘An outstanding junior: very intelligent, very commercial, and very down to earth.’
11KBW is a ‘stand-out set‘ for data protection law. The ‘outstanding’ Julian Milford KC is advising the HMRC on a claim involving a challenge to the system for the automatic transfer of tax data between the UK and the USA, on the grounds that the system is incompatible with the GDPR and Data Protection Act 1998. In a separate matter, Anya Proops KC, leading Robin Hopkins, acted on behalf of Experian in Experian v ICO, an appeal against an enforcement notice issued by the ICO regarding the company’s data brokering business. Christopher Knight is ‘a superstar of the data and privacy world‘, and David Glen ‘provides excellent advice that is strategically insightful and delivered in a user-friendly manner‘.