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Adam Wolanski KC KC

Position
Specialises in media law, including defamation, breach of confidence/privacy and reporting restrictions. For list of recent cases, please see www.5rb.com.
Career
Called 1995, Lincoln’s Inn. Co-author ‘Privacy and the Media’ (OUP 2011), ‘Family Courts: Media Access & Reporting’ (published July 2011 by the Family Division of the High Court, Judicial College and Society of Editors).
Education
MA (Cantab); Lincoln’s Inn CPE scholarship.
Leisure
Windsurfing, cycling, piano.
Lawyer Rankings
London Bar > Defamation and privacy
(Leading Silks)Ranked: Tier 2A pre-eminent set for media and communications law, 5RB members are regularly instructed on complex cases concerning defamation, privacy, data protection, harassment, media regulation and human rights. Adrienne Page KC, leading Ben Gallop, successfully represented the news publisher in Sir James Dyson v MGN Limited, with the inventor losing his libel claim following comments by a Mirror columnist criticising his championing of Brexit before relocating his global head office to Singapore. Jane Phillips acts for the defendant in Karsten v Dunhill-Turner, a harassment by publication claim before the High Court brought against an heir to the Dunhill family by his former business partner. In Clarke v Guardian News and Media Ltd, Adam Speker KC representing the claimant, and Alexandra Marzec and Gallop representing the defendant, in actor Noel Clarke in a high-profile libel action concerning allegations of sexual harassment. Justin Rushbrooke KC, Adam Wolanski KC and Clara Hamer successfully defended a harassment claim, including by media publication and speech, brought against the former King of Spain Juan Carlos I, with the High Court deciding the English Court had no jurisdiction to hear the claim.