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Hannah Gornall

Associate

Hannah advises a broad range of individual and corporate clients in relation to a wide range of commercial disputes, reputation management issues and defamation actions.

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About

Hannah has experience of the following: disputes involving breach of contract, misrepresentation, breach of warranty, directors’ and officers’ duties, professional negligence and all aspects of debt recovery and enforcement; advising on insurance coverage disputes, including business interruption insurance claims; specialist expertise in media, privacy, reputation management and data protection.

Hannah’s clients operate across a range of sectors including banking, retail & leisure, technology and media.

Hannah is admitted to practise in England and Wales.

Experience

  • Acting on behalf of tv presenters, media executives and high-profile actors in the on-going and highly publicised phone hacking litigation against News Group Newspapers (News of the World and The Sun) and MGN Limited (The Mirror, The Sunday Mirror and The People).
  • Advising a range of high-profile individuals on misrepresentations made in a range of online and newspaper publications, and social media mischief makers.
  • Acting for a large food retailer/bakery in relation to a business interruption insurance dispute in which the claimant sought business interruption losses related to and resulting from the Covid-19 pandemic.
  • Advising a not-for-profit organisation on breach of contract and reputation management issues arising.

Our thinking

  • Litigation in the Spotlight: Navigating Reputational Risk Under the Access to Court Documents Pilot

    Hannah Gornall

    Insights

  • Defamation Defences in Practice: Key Takeaways from the case of Noel Clarke v The Guardian

    Ellen Roberts

    Insights

  • From tweet to trial: Blake v Fox

    Hannah Gornall

    Insights

  • Hannah Gornall writes for The Law Society Gazette on the Malicious Communications Act 1998 (MCA)

    Hannah Gornall

    In The Press

  • Claudine Morgan and Hannah Gornall write for Influence Magazine on whether you can be sued for a social media post

    Claudine Morgan

    In The Press

  • Tweets, Trouble, and ‘Serious Harm’: What Really Matters in Court

    Hannah Gornall

    Insights

  • Shining the spotlight on malicious communications: a threat to freedom of expression?

    Hannah Gornall

    Quick Reads

  • Claudine Morgan and Hannah Gornall write for Wealth Briefing on the rise of digital media and the impact on reputation management

    Claudine Morgan

    In The Press

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