Should we be concerned about the recent dramatic rise in the level of privacy actions? JDG Chambers speaks to two senior lawyers on either side of the debate
Back in the early 80s, long before the development of privacy law, Robin Shaw and Keith Schilling used to work for the same law firm, Wright Webb Syrett. Today, Shaw is a defamation and privacy partner at Davenport Lyons. He is also the lawyer for Private Eye, the fortnightly satirical current affairs magazine edited by Ian Hislop, the most sued man in Britain. Shaw and Hislop have resisted an injunction sought by the former head of the Law Society, Michael Napier, and both men have been similarly influential in encouraging BBC presenter Andrew Marr to ‘voluntarily’ abandon his own injunction.
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