Hannah Ready

Practice Areas

Hannah’s practice covers the full ambit of media and information law, including: defamation; malicious falsehood; privacy; breach of confidence; data protection; and harassment. Hannah has broad-ranging experience across each of those practice areas and is particularly well placed to deal with actions involving both data/privacy and reputational issues. She has considerable experience in group litigation and has acted in large scale commercial actions involving information law. Hannah also has a keen interest in non-contentious reputation management and strategy work, including press monitoring on behalf of individuals and corporations in the public eye.

Case highlights include:

A Supreme Court appearance in a landmark privacy action concerning the right of arrestees in child sex offence cases to remain anonymous (Khuja v Times Newspapers Ltd);

A Court of Appeal appearance in Lachaux v AOL (UK) Ltd, which gave rise to the first appellate decision on the ‘serious harm test’ in defamation;

Acting for the largest group of Defendants between 2014 and 2020 in multi-million-pound litigation concerning the alleged blacklisting of construction workers (The Construction Industry Vetting Information Group Litigation);

Continuing to act for English water companies against restitution claims for over £150 million in fees paid for information which it is now said ought to have been provided for free (The Environmental Information Regulations Litigation);

Acting for the Defendant in Farley v Equiniti, which is set to give rise to the leading Court of Appeal authority on the existence and applicability of a threshold of seriousness in UK data protection law.