24 Facts About Hugh Tomlinson

Hugh Tomlinson is a specialist in media and information law including defamation, confidence, privacy and data protection.

Hugh Tomlinson acted in the litigation that sought the full disclosure of UK MP's parliamentary expenses and in the Phone hacking scandal case.

Hugh Tomlinson is known for his privacy work for celebrities who have included Lily Allen, David Beckham and Victoria Beckham, Rio Ferdinand, Ashley Cole, Ryan Giggs, as well as others such as retired banker Fred Goodwin and King Charles III.

Hugh Tomlinson is a visiting professor at the London School of Economics.

Hugh Tomlinson has been accused, in Parliament, of working on behalf of corrupt Russian clients to silence their critics.

Hugh Tomlinson met the philosopher Gilles Deleuze there and went on to translate eight of his books.

In 1984 he joined New Court Chambers and according to Carman's biographer, Dominic Carman, Hugh Tomlinson "made a deep impression" on George Carman who was then head of chambers.

Hugh Tomlinson has had a very broad practice at the Bar.

In 2007 Hugh Tomlinson successfully represented Lord Baker a former Environment Secretary in a Freedom of Information request against John Prescott, the then Secretary of State for the Environment, Transport and the Regions.

Hugh Tomlinson represented Prince Charles in preventing the publication of the Prince's Hong Kong travel diaries and claimed that any arguments that the journals should be published in the public interest were "far-fetched".

Hugh Tomlinson was the leading barrister in the campaign to force the public release of information relating to MPs' expenses.

Hugh Tomlinson is known as a "super injunction" specialist protecting celebrities from the disclosure of "private" information but in accordance with the bar's taxi rank principle he works on both sides of this legal divide.

Hugh Tomlinson represented Jeremy Clarkson's ex-wife Alex Hall where Clarkson was seeking efforts to prevent Hall from claiming that they had had an affair during his subsequent marriage.

Hugh Tomlinson successfully represented the publisher HarperCollins when the BBC sought to prevent a publication revealing the identity of Top Gear's secret racing-driver, The Stig.

Hugh Tomlinson represented Robert Murat in the defamation action against numerous British newspapers.

Hugh Tomlinson represented Christopher Jefferies, the retired Bristol school teacher and landlord of murder victim Joanna Yeates, over the lurid and malicious press coverage of Jefferies during the case.

Hugh Tomlinson was the lead counsel for the claimants in the first and second rounds of the Mobile Telephone Voicemail Interception Litigation against the News of the World.

Hugh Tomlinson acted in the phone hacking judicial review of the Metropolitan police.

In 2014 Hugh Tomlinson represented Amnesty International in the Investigatory Powers Tribunal in a case in which the Security Services were forced to concede that their arrangements for dealing with legally privileged material were unlawful and accepted that Amnesty's communications had been illegally intercepted.

Hugh Tomlinson acted for Amnesty International in its subsequent challenge to the legality of the bulk interception of communications by UK intelligence agencies in the European Court of Human Rights.

Hugh Tomlinson represented the pianist James Rhodes in his successful 2015 appeal to the Supreme Court which led to the overturning of an injunction to prevent the publication of his autobiography, Instrumental.

In 2017, Hugh Tomlinson represented the entertainer Michael Barrymore in his successful claim for wrongful arrest against the Essex Police.

Hugh Tomlinson represented Nightjack the police blogger whom The Times sought to name and expose.

Hugh Tomlinson is a founding editor of the United Kingdom Supreme Court blog.