Praised by clients as ‘exceptional in media law,’ Matrix Chambers primarily acts for high-profile individuals, media organisations and technology companies on complex defamation and privacy cases. Antony White KC successfully defended Google on a misuse of private information claim in Prismall v Google UK and Deep Mind Technologies. Edward Craven KC successfully represented the defendant in the Trump v Orbis Business Intelligence Limited case, concerning the "Trump Russia dossier" which made lurid sexual allegations involving the US President. Gavin Millar KC defended the Guardian against a claim brought by actor and producer Noel Clarke after it published allegations he sexually abused and harassed a number of women over a fifteen-year period.
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