11KBW is ‘the go-to set for information law’ and a ’true expert on freedom of information and privacy’, with members regularly involved in high-profile defamation cases and regularly advising on non-contentious reputation management issues. David Glen is acting for Guardian News & Media in defence of a libel claim brought by Tahir Alam, an individual implicated in the “Trojan Horse” imbroglio; with the defendant successfully arguing that the defamatory meaning the claimant attributed to an Observer article was untenable at a preliminary issue trial in November 2023. In Gorgianeh v Baroness Foster, Zac Sammour represented University Challenge contestant who received damages for tweets by a former Conservative MEP which labelled her team’s cuddly octopus mascot as antisemitic.
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