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Guy Vassall-Adams KC

020 7404 3447 guyvassall-adams@matrixlaw.co.uk

Position

Specialist in all aspects of media, broadcasting and information law, both domestic and European, including privacy, data protection, defamation, contempt of court, open justice, broadcasting regulation, electronic commerce and the internet and media-related judicial reviews. Also undertakes cases in public law, human rights and international law. Recent cases include: the Mobile Telephone Voicemail Interception Litigation (“phone hacking”); the Construction Industry Vetting Information Group Litigation (“blacklisting”); Nicklinson v Ministry of Justice [2014] 3 WLR 200 (assisted suicide, right to private and family life); Mosley v Google Inc [2015] EWHC 59 (QB) (data protection, electronic commerce); Cooper-Hohn v Hohn [2015] 1 FLR 19 (ancillary relief proceedings, privacy); NAB v Serco [2014] EWHC 1225 (QB) (access to court documents); Re Fi Call [2013] 1 WLR 2993 (private hearings, open justice); M v Parole Board [2013] EMLR 23 (right to life, open justice); Graisley Properties v Barclays Bank [2013] EWHC 67 (anonymity, open justice). Previous significant Supreme Court and House of Lords cases include: Al Rawi v Security Service [2012] 1 AC 531 (closed hearings, open justice); Jameel v Wall Street Journal Europe [2007] 1 AC 359 (defamation, responsible journalism defence).

Career

Called 2000; Middle Temple; previously worked as a telvision journalist and as a humanitarian affairs officer for the United Nations. Publications of note: ‘Reporting Restrictions in the Criminal Courts’ (2016, Judicial College).

Education

St Catherine’s College, Oxford (1992 BA Hons, Philosophy and Politics, 2:1); Essex University (1998 LLM, International Human Rights Law, distinction); College of Law (1999 CPE).