MLRC LONDON

CONFERENCE September 23 & 24, 2013

International Developments

in Media Libel, Privacy,

Newsgathering,

and New Media IP Law

Stationers’ Hall

Ave Maria Lane, London EC4

P R E S E N T E D B Y

Media Law Resource Center

CONFERENCE SPONSORS

Leopold Petrich & Smith

ABOUT THE MEDIA LAW RESOURCE CENTER

The MEDIA LAW RESOURCE CENTER, INC. (MLRC) is a non-profit membership

association for content providers in all media, and for their defense lawyers, providing a

wide range of resources on media and content law and policy issues. These include

news and analysis of legal, legislative and regulatory developments; litigation resources

and practice guides; and national and international media law conferences and meetings.

MLRC also works with its membership to respond to legislative and policy proposals, and

speaks to the press and public on media law and First Amendment issues.

MLRC was founded in 1980 by leading American publishers and broadcasters to assist

in defending and protecting free press rights under the First Amendment. Today MLRC is

supported by over one hundred and fifteen members, including leading publishers,

broadcasters, and cable programmers, internet operations, media and professional trade

associations, and media insurance professionals in America and around the world. The

MLRC’s Defense Counsel Section includes more than 200 law firms worldwide that

specialize in media defense representation.

Susan E. Weiner (Chair) NBCUniversal

Marc Lawrence-Apfelbaum Time Warner Cable

Karole Morgan-Prager The McClatchy Company

Lynn B. Oberlander The New Yorker Magazine

Gillian Phillips Guardian News & Media

Kenneth A. Richieri The New York Times Company

Mary Snapp Microsoft Corporation

Kurt Wimmer For the Newspaper Association of America

Robert P. Latham (DCS President) Jackson Walker LLP

Sandra Baron (Secretary) Media Law Resource Center

MLRC BOARD OF DIRECTORS

Dave Heller MLRC

Robert Balin Davis Wright Tremaine LLP

Adam Cannon The Telegraph

James Chadwick Sheppard Mullin LLP

Julie Ford George Brothers Kincaid & Horton LLP

David Hooper RPC

Denise Leary NPR

Gillian Phillips The Guardian

Niri Shan Taylor Wessing

Mark Stephens HowardKennedyFsi

CONFERENCE PLANNING COMMITTEE

SCHEDULE OF EVENTS

Sunday Night, September 22, 2013

6:30 – 8:30 pm Preconference Delegates Reception

Sponsored by Bloomberg L.P., City Gate House, 39-45 Finsbury

Square, London EC2A

Monday, September 23, 2013

8:30 – 9:00 Stationers’ Hall Open for Registration

9:00 – 9:15 Welcome from MLRC’s Chair, Susan E. Weiner, NBCUniversal

9:15 – 10:30 Brave New World: Press Regulation in the UK?

Discussion and analysis of the role of government in regulating the

press and the post-Leveson media environment, featuring:

Lord Guy Black, Executive Director Telegraph Media Group and

Chris Blackhurst, Editor of The Independent and Group Editorial

Director, Independent and Evening Standard.

Moderators: Adam Cannon, Telegraph Media Group; Gill Phillips,

Guardian News & Media

10:30 – 12:00 Newsgathering Challenges: The Fate of Investigative Journalism

Have whistleblowers and confidential sources been silenced? Is

there a chilling effect? Does it signal the death of investigative

journalism? Whose law, what jurisdiction? Subterfuge, hacking,

hidden cameras, and illegally acquired information post-Leveson.

New high tech frontiers in newsgathering.

Discussion Leaders: Zoe Norden, Guardian News & Media;

Lee Williams, CNN

Lunch at Stationers’ Hall

1:00 – 1:40 After Lunch Speaker: Andrew Caldecott QC, One Brick Court

1:45- 3:00 Where Publishers Fear to Tread

Troublesome hot spots for publishers. Featuring: Oreste Pollicino,

Università Bocconi and Portolano Cavallo Studio Legale (Italy);

Michael Kealey, Associated Newspapers (Ireland); H.R. Dipendra,

(Malaysia).

Moderators: Gail Gove, Reuters; Michael Cameron, News Australia

Coffee & Tea Break

3:30 – 5:00 Data Protection: Everything You Need to Know, But Were Afraid

to Ask

Q&A with Jan Philipp Albrecht, Rapporteur for the EU’s proposed

Data Protection Regulation, Member of the European Parliament,

followed by group discussion

Update and discussion on the EU Data Protection overhaul, UK and

US concerns. How will the proposed rules and “right to be forgotten”

impact online news archives, data collection for journalistic purposes,

and data collection for media distribution? What claims can and are

being brought against the press for improper collection and use of

data?

Discussion Leaders: Nick Graham, Dentons; Mark Sableman,

Thompson Coburn LLP

6:30 to 9:00 Reception and Light Supper at the Tower of London

Sponsored by Hiscox

Tuesday, September 24, 2013

9:00 – 9:30 Stationers’ Hall Open for Registration

9:30 – 11:00 Defamation Law: Reform and Global Challenges

Impact of the new UK Defamation Bill: serious harm standard, public

interest privilege, single publication rule, protection for online

publishers, libel tourism. The impact of the proposed Leveson

regulation schemes on libel practice and procedure.

Discussion Leaders: Laura Handman, Davis Wright Tremaine LLP;

Marcus Partington, Trinity Mirror Group PLC

11:15 – 12:45 Privacy Law Developments: The Press Under a Microscope

What happens when government puts the “culture” of the press

under a microscope? Liability for privacy violations post-Leveson.

Should privacy law focus on press conduct or areas of life? The role

of the ECHR is setting standards. Should embarrassing photos be

private? Is bad online conduct testing the limits of privacy law?

Discussion Leaders: Harvey Kass, HowardKennedyFsi;

David Korzenik, Miller Korzenik & Sommers LLP

Lunch at Stationers’ Hall

1:45 – 3:15 Media IP Law Developments: Modernizing the Law for the Digital

Age

Can new IP frameworks support innovation, encourage creation and

promote economic growth in the digital age? Copyright reform bills

around the world and the impact on fair use, format shifting and

aggregation.

Discussion Leaders: Chip Babcock, Jackson Walker LLP;

Oliver Bray, RPC

Coffee & Tea Break

3:45 – 5:00 Contempt of Court in the Age of the Internet

The impact of social media and the Internet on the jury system and

fair trial rights and proposals to revise the law of contempt to regulate

news archives, ISPs and search engines.

Featuring: Justice Tugendhat (High Court England & Wales);

Justice Chris Maxwell (President Victoria Court of Appeals);

Keir Starmer QC, Director of Public Prosecutions.

Moderators: Gavin Millar QC, Doughty Street Chambers;

Julie Ford, George Brothers Kincaid & Horton LLP

Wednesday, September 25, 2013

9:00 – 10:30 In-house Counsel Breakfast Meeting

(Open to in-house media counsel only)

Hosted at The Telegraph, 111 Buckingham Palace Road, London

SW1

Discussion of in-house legal and management issues.

Discussions led by Adam Cannon, The Telegraph; Jason Conti, Dow

Jones, and Lesley Power, SBS (Australia).

MLRC LONDON CONFERENCE 2013

SPEAKERS

Lord Black of Brentwood (Guy Black) is Executive Director Telegraph Media Group. He

has been described as “the newspaper industry's eminence grise par excellence,” and

has been closely involved in the post-Leveson negotiations over future press regulations.

He was previously Director of the Press Complaints Commission (1996-2003); Press

Secretary to Michael Howard, Leader of the Opposition; and Director of Communications

for the Conservative Party (2003-2005). He currently serves as Chairman, Press

Standards Board of Finance (PressBoF) (2009-); Director, Advertising Standards Board

of Finance (2005-); Chairman, Commonwealth Press Union Media Trust (2009-) and

President, London Press Club (2012-). He is a Conservative Member of the House of

Lords since July 2010. Guy Black was also a Member of Parliament’s Joint Committee on

Privacy and Super-Injunctions (2011-12).

Chris Blackhurst is Group Content Director of The Independent and Evening Standard.

He rejoined The Independent as Editor in July 2011 and remained Editor until June 2013.

Previously, Chris Blackhurst was City Editor of the Evening Standard for 9 years. A

journalist since 1984, his previous posts include: Deputy Editor at the Independent and

Independent on Sunday and Daily Express, and Westminster Correspondent of the

Independent. He has written for Management Today for the past 15 years and has

contributed to numerous other magazines and publications, as well as appearing

regularly on TV and Radio and making public speeches. He has received several awards

from the British Press Awards and the London Press Club as well as TSB Financial

Journalist of the Year. Most recently he received the London Press Club award for

Business Journalist of the Year, 2011. Twice married, he has five children and lives in

Kingston. He enjoys playing tennis and golf, watching football and rugby, and going to the

cinema and theatre.

Andrew Caldecott QC is the head of One Brick Court Chambers and is a leading silk in

defamation, privacy, media, and entertainment law. Andrew regularly advises and acts for

broadcasters and publishing houses, corporations and celebrities, as well as government

departments and ministers in the UK and various foreign jurisdictions. He was appointed

as Specialist Legal Advisor to the Parliamentary Joint Committee of the House of Lords

and Commons scrutinizing the Defamation Bill. He recently acted as counsel for The

Guardian in the Leveson Inquiry. He was counsel for the BBC in the Hutton Inquiry. He

was a Ba (Hons) in Modern History, New College Oxford; Inns of Court School of Law;

and took silk 1994.

Jan Philipp Albrecht, is a Member of the European Parliament from Germany for the

Green Party, and is the rapporteur for the EU’s proposed Data Protection overhaul. He is

spokesperson for Justice and Home Affairs of the Greens/EFA in the European

Parliament. He is a member of the Committee on Civil Liberties, Justice and Home Affairs

(LIBE) and a substitute member of the Committee on Legal Affairs (JURI) and

Coordinator of the Green Group in the European Parliament in the Special Committee on

Organised Crime, Corruption and Money Laundering (CRIM). He was rapporteur for the

opinion of the Committee on Legal Affairs on the proposal for a directive on the right of

access to a lawyer in 2011. Since March 2012, Jan Philipp Albrecht is the rapporteur of

the European Parliament for the data protection regulation. From 2003 until his election

in the European Parliament in 2009, he studied Law in Bremen, Berlin and Brussels and

was a student of Legal Informatics at the universities of Hannover and Oslo. Jan Philipp

Albrecht has committed himself to the Greens in different fields since 1999. By his

engagement for data protection issues, the former spokesman for the Federal Executive

Committee of the Young Greens (2006 to 2008) turned into an expert for home affairs

and legal policy in the European Parliament within short time. Jan Philipp Albrecht was

born on 20 December 1982 in Braunschweig/Lower Saxony.

Justice Chris Maxwell, President Court of Appeal Victoria, Australia, graduated from

Melbourne University in 1975 with first class honours in philosophy and history. He was

the 1975 Rhodes Scholar for Victoria, and in 1977 completed a BPhil at New College,

Oxford. In 1978, he was called to the English Bar by Lincoln’s Inn, and undertook

pupillage in Middle Temple. On his return to Australia, Chris practised as a solicitor

before taking up a position as senior private secretary to the Commonwealth Attorney-

General, Senator Gareth Evans (1983–84). Chris commenced practice at the Victorian

Bar in 1984. He was appointed Queen’s Counsel in 1998. He practised in constitutional

and administrative law and in revenue law. In 1994, Chris was counsel assisting the

Judicial Inquiry into the Australian Secret Intelligence Service. In 2003-4, he undertook a

review for the Victorian Government of the Occupational Health and Safety Act 1985.

The recommendations of that review were implemented in the Occupational Health and

Safety Act 2004. In July 2005, Chris was appointed President of the Court of Appeal,

Supreme Court of Victoria.

Keir Starmer QC is Director of Public Prosecutions at the Crown Prosecution Service.

During his 20-year career, Keir has earned a reputation as one of the country's most

gifted lawyers, and an expert in the field of human rights. Appointed Queen's Counsel in

2002, he was named Human Rights Lawyer of the Year in 2001 and QC of the Year in

Human Rights and Public Law in 2007. He is the author of several leading legal textbooks

and is a Visiting Fellow at Essex University. From 2003-2008, he was the Human Rights

Advisor to the Policing Board in Northern Ireland, publishing several reports. He was Joint

Head of Doughty Street Chambers before taking up the role of Director of Public

Prosecutions in November 2008. As DPP, Keir is responsible for prosecutions, legal

issues and criminal justice policy.

Mr Justice Michael Tugendhat was appointed to the High Court of Justice of England

and Wales in the Queen's Bench Division in 2003. He is a libel list judge and handles libel

and related cases, in addition to civil claims. Prior to his appointment to the bench, he

was a QC at Five Raymond Buildings. His specialist areas of practice were media law

(defamation, confidence, privacy and data protection, reporting restrictions, copyright and

contempt of court) and commercial law, commercial arbitration, human rights and

elections. He had been involved in many notable and well reported cases in media and

commercial law and in the field of Human Rights. He was educated at Gonville & Caius

College, Cambridge, and Yale University where he obtained a Henry Fellowship and

studied for a year at the Law School. In 1969 he was called to the Bar (Inner Temple)

and became Queen’s Counsel in 1986. In 1988 he became a Master of the Bench of the

Inner Temple and between 1992-94 served as a member of the General Council of the

Bar. In 1994 he became a Recorder of the Crown Court and in 1995 a Deputy High

Court Judge. He was also appointed as Arbitrator in International Arbitrations by the

London Court of International Arbitration and the International Chamber of Commerce

(including bilingual French/English hearings).

DISCUSSION LEADERS and FACULTY

Charles L. “Chip” Babcock is a partner at Jackson Walker LLP in Texas and has a

national trial and appellate practice, handling significant commercial, First Amendment

and intellectual property cases. He established the First Amendment right of journalists to

protect confidential sources in a Fifth Circuit case. In the First Circuit, he successfully

defended an appeal for Oprah in a copyright/misappropriation case, and in the Texas

Supreme Court, he argued and won an important defamation case for media defendants.

He has appeared for oral argument in over 50 cases, most recently in the Dallas Court of

Appeals, where the Court heard the first case on the merits of a dismissal under the new

Texas Citizens Participation Act (anti-SLAPP statute).

Rob Balin is a partner at Davis Wright Tremaine LLP and is co-chair of the firm’s Media

Group. Rob represents publishers, broadcasters and digital media clients in all aspects of

media law, including counseling and litigation involving defamation, privacy, news

gathering torts, intellectual property rights and First Amendment issues. Rob is also an

adjunct professor at Columbia University Law School, where he teaches a publishing law

class, and is vice-chair of the International Media Law Committee of the Media Law

Resource Center.

Sandra Baron is Executive Director of the Media Law Resource Center. In addition to

private practice, Ms. Baron has served as Senior Managing Attorney at the National

Broadcasting Company, Inc., where her clients included the news operations of NBC and

its subsidiaries, NBC Enterprises, and East Coast Entertainment; as Associate General

Counsel of the Educational Broadcasting Company, WNET/Thirteen, in New York, and

general counsel of public broadcasting’s consortium, American Playhouse. She was an

associate with Cahill Gordon & Reindel, also in New York. She is a member of ALI, and

serves or has served on the communications and media law committees of the New York

State Bar Association and the Association of the Bar of the City of New York, the Forum

Committee of the American Bar Association, and on the Media Law Reform Working

Group of ABA/CEELI. She has taught media law to journalism students at New York

University, CUNY, and other area graduate and undergraduate programs. She was co-

author of the second edition of Libel, Slander and Related Problems, with Robert D.

Sack, and has written articles for MLRC and other publications on media law topics.

Oliver Bray, a partner at RPC, is a highly experienced commercial, IP and technology

lawyer and a recognised specialist in advertising and marketing law. He advises well-

known high street retailers, innovative start ups/online businesses and household name

brand owners, as well as advertising and digital agencies across the media spectrum.

This includes advice on digital media, emerging technologies and commercial contractual

matters, coupled with expertise in consumer protection, data protection, comparative

advertising and regulatory and content issues. He is Chairman of the City of London Law

Society Commercial Law Committee, an editorial board member of E-commerce Law and

Policy and a regular industry speaker. He also co-authored the leading UK text book on

“Advertising Law and Regulation”.

Michael Cameron is National Editorial Counsel for News Corp Australia, that nation's

largest media company, with oversight of pre-publication vetting, litigation

management and media law training for 170 newspaper titles, digital entities and pay TV

channels. Prior to that, he worked as in-house counsel for The New York Post and the

Community Newspaper Group in New York. A former journalist, he is admitted to

practice in New South Wales and New York. He is the author of Australian Media Law

(News Publishing, 2007).

Adam Cannon is the Editorial Legal Director at Telegraph Media Group, providing 24/7

advice to the newspapers and their editors. He is a barrister by training having been

called to the Middle Temple in October 1997. He left the bar in 2001 to move in-house at

Associated Newspapers (publishers of The Daily Mail and The Evening Standard). He

moved to The Telegraph three years ago. He obtained his degree from Magdalene

College, Cambridge. He is a former president of the Cambridge Union and is a director

and executive board member of BICOM (British Israel Research and Communications

Organisation) and a trustee of The London Jewish Forum.

James Chadwick is a partner in the Intellectual Property and Business Trials Practice

Groups in Sheppard Mullin's Silicon Valley office. Mr. Chadwick's practice focuses on

litigation and counseling for media, technology, and online businesses, including

copyright, trademark and patent litigation, and media, First Amendment and privacy

law. He has served as the co-chair of the Media Law Resource Center's annual

conference on digital media law, Legal Frontiers in Digital Media, and currently serves on

the board of directors of the First Amendment Coalition.

Jason Conti is chief compliance officer, vice president and associate general counsel of

Dow Jones & Company, Inc. Mr. Conti is responsible for the Company’s domestic and

international litigation and media law issues, and heads compliance efforts at the

company. Dow Jones is publisher of The Wall Street Journal, WSJ.com, Barron’s, and

several other publications. In addition, Dow Jones provides real-time financial news

through Dow Jones Newswires and offers a variety of other news and information

products and services. Mr. Conti previously was an attorney at Hogan & Hartson LLP,

primarily handling media law litigation. He joined Dow Jones in March 2008.

H.R. Dipendra is a director with Media Defence-South East Asia a Network comprising of

lawyers and media advocates dedicated to protecting and promoting Media Defence and

the Freedom of Expression with the Southeast Asia region. Media Defence-South East

Asia has members from Thailand, Indonesia, Malaysia, Singapore, Vietnam, Burma,

Philippines, Cambodia and Laos. Activities and projects include training of lawyers and

media activists in the abovementioned countries, participating in trial observer missions

and other case interventions. In addition, Dipendra is currently the Chairman of the Kuala

Lumpur State Bar Committee, the largest State Bar in Peninsula Malaysia with

approximately 7,300 lawyers. He also chairs the Professional Standards and

Development Committee at the Malaysian Bar Council and the Civil Practice Committee

at the Kuala Lumpur Bar Committee. Dipendra is also a member of the Malaysian Bar

Council Human Rights Committee. Dipendra was admitted to the Malaysian Bar in 2000

and is the managing partner of Messrs Arianti Dipendra Jeremiah.

Julie Ford has been defending newspapers, magazines, on-line news services, book

publishers, and television and cable networks for over 26 years. Listed in Best Lawyers

in America for Litigation - First Amendment and for First Amendment Law, Julie’s practice

focuses on libel, privacy and copyright issues, under both U.S. and U.K. law. She lives in

Austin, Texas, where she is Of Counsel to the firm of George Brothers Kincaid &

Horton, LLP.

Gail Gove is Chief Counsel to Reuters, where she is responsible for domestic and

international litigation and all legal issues arising out of the newsroom. Reuters is the

world’s largest international news agency; it provides real-time multi-media news and

information services to newspapers, television and cable networks, radio stations and

websites around the world. In addition, Reuters publishes market data and intelligence to

business and finance consumers. Previously, Gail was Assistant General Counsel to

Dow Jones, the publisher of The Wall Street Journal and other publications, and an

attorney at the law firm of Hogan & Hartson, LLP.

Nick Graham is the Global Co-Chair of Dentons' Privacy and Security Group He

specialises in data protection, information risk and governance as well as freedom of

information, IT/e-Commerce, IT and business process outsourcing and commercial

contracts. Nick advises across all sectors including retail, energy, manufacturing,

banking, insurance, technology and digital media. Nick has over 18 years’ experience

and has been advising on data privacy since the days of the Data Protection Act 1984

and the early enforcement activities of the FTC. He has advised on all aspects of data

protection including global compliance strategy, data protection assessments, data

breach and incident response, information governance, international data transfers,

customer data strategy, data retention and data exploitation in cloud computing and

digital media.

Laura Handman divides her time between the New York and Washington, D.C. offices of

Davis Wright Tremaine LLP. For 30 years, she has provided counseling and litigation

services, from complaint through trial and appeal, to U.S. and foreign publishers,

broadcasters, electronic publishers and booksellers in libel, privacy and newsgathering

torts, reporter's privilege, access, freedom of information, copyright and trademark and

other content related matters. This past year she obtained dismissal of libel suits brought

by a Liberian war lord, a former Russian diplomat who forms off shore shell companies,

an author challenging Obama's birth certificate, an anti -gay rock and roll singer, the

“Number One Dirtiest Hotel in the U.S.,” and a New York judge. This May, on behalf of

Dow Jones, she successfully vacated a 34 year old injunction that blocked the U.S.

government from releasing the data base containing what doctors earn from the largest

government health program and quashed a subpoena for newsgathering materials

sought by casino owner and political donor, Sheldon Adelson. She currently is involved in

battles over national security information. Laura has served as an expert on American

libel law on behalf of U.S. media in connection with libel actions brought in London,

Belfast and Melbourne and established the first precedents in the U.S. and state courts

refusing to enforce British libel judgments as repugnant to U.S. public policy.

Dave Heller is a lawyer with the Media Law Resource Center. Much of his work focuses

on MLRC's international programs and initiatives. He has been involved with the

programming and planning of the MLRC London Conference since its inception and this

year worked on MLRC's first conference on Legal Issues Concerning Hispanic and Latin

American Media. He has written comments on UK and European media law reform

issues, including the new UK Defamation Bill. He is a member of MLRC's International

Media Lawyers Project (IMLP) which has worked to expand MLRC's membership to

lawyers in developing countries. He is also the editor of MLRC‟s monthly

MediaLawLetter, and a regular contributor to MLRC's other publications, including an

annual survey of developments in media libel and privacy law.

David Hooper is a partner at Reynolds Porter Chamberlain in London and an

internationally known defamation and intellectual property lawyer. He is well-known for

fighting high-profile libel actions, complex copyright, privacy and breach of confidence

disputes. David has been involved in many of the leading media litigation cases, and is

author of several books, including Reputations Under Fire, Public Scandal, Odium and

Contempt, and The Official Secrets Act and regularly writes on developments in UK

media law for the MLRC.

Harvey Kass was Legal Director of the Mail Newspapers publisher, Associated

Newspapers, for 17 years until 2012, and together with industry colleagues was heavily

involved with “first amendment” issues. Following a Parkinson's diagnosis he rebalanced

life and joined HowardKennedyFsi as a consultant. At the same time he set up Kass

Media which provides pre-publishing advice to media organisations, including national

newspapers and Independent Television News, as well as providing mentoring and

career planning help to in-house and private practice lawyers. He also works with training

company Sherwood in providing scenario led training sessions to law firm associates. He

is hoping to revive his earlier theatrical production career if the right project comes along.

Michael Kealey is a solicitor with an established reputation in defamation, privacy and

media law. Having been educated at Trinity College Dublin and Cambridge universities,

he became a partner in two large Dublin based solicitors firms. He is now in-house

counsel for Associated Newspapers in Ireland, the publishers of the Irish Daily Mail, Irish

Mail on Sunday and MailOnline Ireland. He has written and lectured extensively on

media law.

David Korzenik is a partner at Miller Korzenik Sommers LLP in New York. He represents

numerous publishers, magazines, news organizations, broadcasters, new media and

technology companies, theatrical producers, advertisers and software companies in

opposing and managing libel, privacy, newsgathering, copyright and related claims and

litigations. He regularly works with foreign media defense counsel and manages claims

against U.S. media and human rights groups in foreign nations. Mr. Korzenik has been

an Adjunct Professor at The Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law teaching Media Law,

Entertainment Law and Advanced Copyright for the past 22 years.

Denise Leary is Deputy General Counsel at NPR. She handles a wide array of areas for

NPR, among them complex copyright issues relating to NPR’s content and distribution on

multi-media platforms and emerging technologies, media law and privacy issues,

trademark, and a variety of major contracts. She also negotiates broadcast and streaming

agreements for the public radio system with content owners and performing rights

organizations for musical compositions and sound recordings.

Gavin Millar QC is Deputy Head of Doughty Street Chambers. He has a wide-ranging

practice covering media, public, employment and discrimination law. Much of his media

work is for clients asserting free speech rights. He undertakes defamation, privacy,

contempt and reporting restriction cases. He is the co-author of Media Law and Human

Rights (2009 Oxford University Press) and sits on the Board of the Centre for

Investigative Journalism at City University. He is a Council of Europe expert on freedom

of expression. In this capacity he regularly speaks and advises on media law at

Strasbourg and in the emerging democracies of Eastern Europe.

Zoe Norden is a media law specialist currently working in-house as an editorial legal

adviser for Guardian News & Media Limited (publishers of the Guardian and Observer

newspapers and theguardian.com). She advises on a range of content-related matters

including defamation, privacy, contempt of court, the official secrets act and reporting

restrictions and in addition she undertakes post publication litigation (defending legal

actions arising out of publication). She has advised Guardian News & Media on its phone

-hacking and Wikileaks coverage, the Leveson Inquiry and most recently on its

investigation into undercover police officers. She is also involved in co-ordinating and

overseeing media challenges on open justice principles and, on behalf of the Media

Lawyers Association, engages in government consultations in areas which impact the

media. Zoe has a particular interest in the cost of media litigation and was a member of

the Working Group formed by the Civil Justice Council (at the request of the government)

to look at the issue of costs in defamation proceedings.

Marcus Partington, is Deputy Secretary/Group Legal Director of Trinity Mirror Plc and a

member of the management committee of the Media Lawyers Association, an

organisation he chaired between 2009 and 2012. Its members include all of the country’s

major newspapers and broadcasters. He has given evidence to various Parliamentary

Committees on defamation, privacy and costs and handled Trinity Mirror’s involvement in

the Leveson Inquiry. He was a member of the Libel Working Group on libel reform set up

by the Lord Chancellor in the previous Government which reported in March 2010 and a

member of the Master of the Rolls Committee on Superinjunctions which reported in May

2011. He has been involved in many of the leading (post Human Rights Act) breach of

confidence/privacy cases including Naomi Campbell v MGN Limited [2004] UKHL 22, A v

B and C (the Garry Flitcroft case) [2002] EWCA Civ 337, Jamie Theakston v MGN

Limited [2002] EWHC 137 (QB) and Ferdinand v MGN Limited [2011] EWHC 2454 (QB).

The other leading case he was involved in was Cream Holdings v Banerjee [2004] UKHL

44, in which the House of Lords clarified the test under section 12(3) of the Human Rights

Act 1998 for obtaining interim injunctive relief in privacy cases. He has considerable

experience of Conditional Fee Agreements (CFAs) and handled the Naomi Campbell

CFA case both in the House of Lords ([2005] UKHL 61) and in the European Court of

Human Rights which resulted in that court finding, in January 2011 ([2011] ECHR 66),

that the scheme of CFAs with success fees in publication cases in this country was

contrary to Article 10.

Gillian Phillips is director of editorial legal services at Guardian News & Media with day

to day responsibility for the content of The Guardian, The Observer and theguardian.com.

In that capacity she was involved in the Trafigura Super Injunction case, and was a

member of the Master of the Rolls Committee on super injunctions. More recently she

has been advising Guardian News & Media on Wikileaks, phone hacking, the Leveson

Inquiry and most recently the NSA leaks from Edward Snowden. Before joining The

Guardian in May 2009, she worked at the BBC and was Head of Litigation at Times

Newspapers Limited, publishers of The Times and The Sunday Times, where she worked

on the Lance Armstrong libel litigation, as well as a breach of confidence case brought

against The Sunday Times by Harrods, the privacy and droit de réponse litigation against

The Times in France (Barclay Brothers) and a libel action brought against The Times in

Greece as well as any number of challenges to reporting restrictions. Gill is also a

member of the MLRC Board of Directors.

Professor Oreste Pollicino is an associate professor at Bocconi University in Milan,

where he tutors in public law (since 2003), information and internet law (since 2003) and

constitutional adjudication from a comparative perspective (since 2008). Already one of

Italy’s most authoritative commentators on media and the Internet, Oreste regularly

speaks at national and international seminars. He is the founder and managing director of

the websites www.diritticomparati.it and www.medialaws.eu, as well as the author of

numerous essays and other works. Since November 2010 he has worked with Portolano

Cavallo Studio Legale in an of-counsel role.

Lesley Power is the General Counsel at SBS, a position she has held since April 2000.

In this role she is responsible for managing the provision of legal services to SBS. This

responsibility includes providing pre-publication legal advice to all SBS program makers,

particularly investigative journalists, reporters and documentary makers. Lesley has

successfully advised SBS in relation to a wide range of media law related litigation

including defamation actions, injunctions and contempt of court. Lesley developed

extensive skills and experience in media law during a ten year stint as an in-house lawyer

at the ABC. She has also worked at the Arts Law Centre of Australia and at the Canberra

Community Legal Centre. Lesley is a highly respected lecturer in media law and has

regularly taught courses at the University of Technology, presented lectures at the

University of Melbourne, the University of Tasmania and through the Australian Centre for

Independent Journalism. She has also presented papers at legal conferences, both in

Australia and internationally.

Mark Sableman is a partner with Thompson Coburn LLP in St. Louis, Missouri. He is an

honors graduate of Georgetown University Law Center where he was Articles Editor of

the Georgetown Law Journal. He has tried media, intellectual property and technology

cases, and regularly counsels clients on Internet and intellectual property issues. He is

author of More Speech, Not Less: Communications Law in the Information Age (1997),

more than a dozen law review articles and book chapters, and the Internet Law Twists

and Turns blog. He has taught Internet Law, and Censorship and Free Expression, as an

adjunct professor at Washington University School of Law. He has been listed in Best

Lawyers in America since 1996.

Niri Shanmuganathan joined Taylor Wessing in 1993 after being awarded first class

honours in his Law Society Finals. He obtained a diploma in Intellectual Property law at

Bristol University in 1996. Niri heads up the highly rated IP and media group, one of the

largest practice groups in Taylor Wessing and is a member of Taylor Wessing's

board. Niri was listed in the 2008 edition of The Evening Standard's 1000 London's Most

Influential People. He was also nominated in the 2009 Lawyer Awards as Partner of the

Year and is listed in the Top 100 lawyers in Super Lawyers 2013 edition. He is also

recommended as a leading individual for both defamation, privacy, media and

entertainment and intellectual property in UK legal directories. Legal 500 2012 notes that

he is “extremely knowledgable” and “provides high quality”. Chambers 2013 describes

him as being “incredibly experienced” and “a very good litigator”.

Mark Stephens, CBE, is a partner at HowardKennedyFsi specialising in International,

Appellate and Complex litigation, Constitutional, Human Rights, IP, Media & Regulatory

work, defamation, privacy, media, data protection and freedom of information and

intellectual property. He has undertaken some of the highest profile cases in the United

Kingdom and abroad and is also extremely active in many other areas having been

appointed by the British Foreign Secretary to the Foreign & Commonwealth Office Free

Expression advisory board. He has a significant caseload in the European Court of

Human Rights. Privy Council cases - Ultimate Appeal Court for parts of the

Commonwealth, as well as, Regulatory Cases & Inquiries form much of his caseload.

Mark chairs a number of bodies including the Contemporary Art Society, The Design

Artists Copyright Society, the University of East London, the Management Committee of

the Programme in Comparative Media Law & Policy Wolfson College Oxford University,

and the International Advisory Board of the Media Law International Defence Initiative. He

is Vice President of the Commonwealth Lawyers Association. Mark is a Trustee of Index

of Censorship, the Bianca Jagger Human Rights Foundation and Human Rights Council

of the International Bar Association. The Queen made him a Commander of the Order of

the British Empire (a CBE) in her Birthday Honours list in June 2011.

Susan E. Weiner is Executive Vice President and Deputy General Counsel of

NBCUniversal. Susan heads the Litigation Group, which handles NBCUniversal disputes

and lawsuits domestically and internationally, and the Media Law Group, which works

with news organizations throughout NBCUniversal, including NBC News, MSNBC,

CNBC, NBC Stations and Telemundo. Prior to joining NBCUniversal, Susan was Deputy

General Counsel of the Metropolitan Transportation Authority and a litigator at Patterson,

Belknap, Webb & Tyler. She clerked for Judge Charles Tenney of the United States

District Court for the Southern District of New York following her graduation from New

York University School of Law. Susan is Chair of the MLRC Board of Directors.

Lee Williams is Assistant General Counsel for CNN. She began working at CNN in 1992

after spending four years with the Atlanta law firm of Alston & Bird. Ms. Williams is

responsible for advising on newsgathering and production issues for the network CNN

International, the international newsgathering group comprised of 30 plus bureaus around

the world, the CNN program “360 with Anderson Cooper”, and Investigations. Ms.

Williams graduated from Emory University School of Law, and is a member of the

Investigative Reporters and Editors (IRE), and the Society of Professional Journalists.

Kurt Wimmer is a partner in the Washington office of Covington & Burling, where he is

U.S. chair of the firm’s global privacy and data security practice group and co-chair of the

firm’s Media, Internet and Technology practice. He is a director of the Media Law

Resource Center and chair of the First Amendment Advisory Council of the Media

Institute. He was previously general counsel of Gannett Co., Inc. and managing partner of

the London office of Covington & Burling.

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