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Hannah Ready
Position
Career
Hannah’s practice covers the full ambit of media and information law, including data protection. Recognised as a “rising star” in the field, recent highlights include:
- a Supreme Court appearance in a landmark privacy case concerning the right of arrestees in child sex offence cases to remain anonymous (PNM v Times Newspapers Ltd);
- a Court of Appeal appearance in Lachaux v AOL (UK) Ltd, which gave rise to the first appellate decision on the controversial ‘serious harm test’ under section 1 of the Defamation Act 2013;
- acting for the largest group of defendants in multi-million-pound litigation concerning the alleged blacklisting of construction workers (Construction Industry Vetting Information Group Litigation).
In 2012, she was awarded a Pegasus Scholarship to work at the New York offices of Levine Sullivan Koch & Schulz LLP, where she gained both a broad grounding in American media law and experience in advising on cross-jurisdictional issues. Having previously worked for a leading communications agency, Hannah also boasts expertise in reputation management and litigation strategy.
Hannah is a contributor to Arlidge, Eady & Smith on Contempt, 5th Edition, 2017, and co-author, Atkin’s Court Forms on Defamation.
Hannah has a particular interest in dealing with online issues and experience in representing prominent internet and technology clients, including Google UK Ltd, AOL (UK) Ltd,Twitter Inc. and TripAdvisor Ltd.
Education
MA (Cantab) (First Class), Law, University of Cambridge (Churchill College)
Silverman Sherliker Award for Legal Excellence; Churchill College Scholarship, 2008
Lord Denning Scholarship; Hardwicke Entrance Award, 2009
Bar Vocational Course, BPP Law School (Outstanding)
Buchanan Prize; Hubert Greenland Scholarship (Lincoln’s Inn), 2010
Pegasus Scholarship (Inns of Court), 2012
Lawyer Rankings
London Bar > Data protection
(Leading Juniors)Ranked: Tier 1Hannah Ready – 11KBW ‘Hannah is one of the few senior juniors with technical knowledge and practical experience in litigating both data protection and traditional media disputes. This breadth of knowledge means she is a go-to barrister for complex information law disputes.‘
‘One of the top data sets in the country’, 11KBW’s ‘leading lights feature in all the prominent data protection cases and the set is at the cutting edge in this field.’ Anya Proops KC, leading Robin Hopkins, represented The Police Federation in connection with a major data breach said to have affected 130,000 of its serving officer members, having already successfully resisted an attempt by the claimants to have the court make a group litigation order. Timothy Pitt-Payne KC led Stephen Kosmin representing the claimant in Prismall v Google UK, a representative action concerning the use of medical data from the Royal Free Hospital to develop an app to detect acute kidney injury due to be heard by the Court of Appeal. In Farley & Ors v Equiniti, a multi-million pound data breach and misuse of private information claim against the police pension administrator, Andrew Sharland KC and Hannah Ready represented the defendant and successfully convinced the judge to strike out 97% of the 446 claims.
London Bar > Defamation and privacy
(Leading Juniors)Ranked: Tier 2Hannah Ready –11KBW ‘Hannah is a superb senior junior – immensely bright and forensic in her analysis.’