Keith Mathieson

Practice Areas

An expert in defamation and privacy law, Partner Keith Mathieson has been defending the media for over 20 years and leads RPC's media team.

Keith defends clients involved in libel, privacy and similar claims.

Regularly instructed by Associated Newspapers Limited (Mail, Mail on Sunday and Mail Online), Mirror Group, News UK (The Sun, Times and Sunday Times) and the Financial Times, he also acts for numerous other UK and international publishers and for a number of media liability insurers.

Keith has had a prominent role in press regulation, including acting for Associated Newspapers throughout the Leveson Inquiry.

He is currently representing Mirror Group in the long-running litigation arising out of phone hacking at its three titles. He has particular experience of contentious costs matters in media cases.

Career

Trained Lovells; qualified 1983; solicitor Lovells 1983-90; solicitor Oswald Hickson Collier 1990-92; partner 1992-97; partner Davies Arnold Cooper 1997-2000; partner Reynolds Porter Chamberlain 2000.

Publications

Principal author and editor of The Privacy Law Handbook.

Contributed to The Freedom of Information Handbook, 3rd edition.

Work Highlights

Representing Mirror Group over more than 12 years in hundreds of phone hacking claims.

Advising the Daily Mail, Mail on Sunday, and MailOnline in numerous libel and privacy cases.

Providing pre-publication advice to publishers of all kinds, from the Financial Times to the Spectator.