Leveraging the firm's strong capabilities in private wealth, family, private client and employment matters, Penningtons Manches Cooper LLP's team 'provides excellent practical and strategic advice to clients in all areas of reputation management', demonstrating particular strength in defamation and privacy cases. The team is jointly led by Jeremy Clarke-Williams, who advises on defamation, breach of confidence, and misuse of private information mandates, and Adele Ashton, who has a robust track record in claimant and defendant-side work, covering privacy, defamation, and data protection issues.
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‘Penningtons Manches Cooper is truly able to provide a 360 degree service with the appropriate involvement and collaboration of partners in different sectors to ensure that the client's needs are fully met.’
‘Jeremy Clarke-Williams is a leading practitioner in the area of defamation and privacy, but more than this, Jeremy is able to access advice in other contexts to ensure that when he provides reputation management advice, he takes into account every possible context.’
‘Each time, Adele Ashton and her team are quick to grasp the essential facts of our business and the specific challenge at hand.’
‘Three words I might use to describe Adele Ashton and her team would be pragmatic, resourceful and tenacious. It's obvious that Adele Ashton, Gareth Jones, and others enjoy their work and bring up-to-date knowledge and applicability to the latest developments in the subject area.’
‘The firm provides excellent practical and strategic advice to clients in all areas of reputation management. Highly effective.’
‘Adele Ashton is excellent. She has a wide range of experience that she uses to achieve the best results for her clients.'
- 'Jeremy Clarke-Williams has a stellar reputation. He has proven himself to have great judgment on cases and works hard for his clients.'
- 'Gareth Jones and Elizabeth Mason are also brilliant - they have great experience and knowledge in the field.’
Key clients
- Professor Gerry Gilmore
- Benjamin Hudson
- Christ Church, Oxford
- MSC Cruises
- Police Federation of England and Wales (PFEW)
- League Managers Association (LMA)
Work highlights
Advised Professor Gilmore of the University of Cambridge in respect of a potential defamation claim arising out of a number of statements made by the (then) Head of Department and subsequent publications related to the same.
Advising on and assisting Detective Inspector Ben Hudson of Suffolk Police Federation and the PFEW with their #SimplifyDG6 campaign to seek amendments to the Data Protection Act 2018 to remove the burden on police officers of redacting case files sent to the Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) at the pre-charge stage.
Continued to advise Christ Church on reputational matters, which has involved corresponding with media publications, including the Guardian, the Daily Telegraph, Mail on Sunday, the Times and Private Eye.
Lawyers
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Practice head
Kamran Rehman; Jeremy Clarke-Williams; Adele Ashton
Other key lawyers
Elizabeth Mason; Gareth Jones