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Sara Mansoori KC
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, contempt, reporting restrictions, pre-publication advice and copyright). She has represented a wide range of clients, including the Core Participant Victims in the Leveson Inquiry, Actors, Sports men/women, Members of Parliament, Local Authorities, Primary Care Trusts, Law Firms, and media publishers.
Recent Cases include:
- Rebekah Vardy v Colleen Rooney [2021] EWHC 1888 (acting for the Claimant in her high profile libel claim);
- Various Claimants v NGN (acting for the Claimant Group in the phone hacking litigation in relation to The News of the World and The Sun);
- Sicri v Associated Newspapers [2020] EWHC 3541 (acting for Claimant in his successful privacy claim against the Mailonline);
- ZXC v Bloomberg [2020] EWCA 611 (acting for Claimant is his successful privacy claim which established the general right not to be named as a suspect of crime);
- Banks v Cadwalladr [2019] EWHC 3451 (acting for Arron Banks in his libel claim against the journalist Carole Cadwalladr in respect of allegations made in her Ted Talk).”
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: Football and the Law (contributor) (2018); co-author of ‘The Law of Privacy and the Media’ (2002, OUP); Blogger for Inforrm.
Languages
Conversational Farsi and French.
Education
Leeds University (LLB (Hons) (First Class)).
Lawyer Rankings
London Bar > Data protection
(Leading Silks)Ranked: Tier 2Sara Mansoori KC – Matrix Chambers ‘Sara is our go-to KC for data protection work. She is ferociously intelligent, extraordinarily hard working and highly collaborative. Her advocacy is first class. Despite only being made up a few years ago, she is already in the top tier of media barristers.’
London Bar > Defamation and privacy
(Leading Silks)Ranked: Tier 3Sara Mansoori KC – Matrix Chambers ‘Sara has a wealth of knowledge in defamation, data protection, privacy and breach of confidence. Sara’s advice is always well trusted by clients and her advocacy is excellent.’