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| Lorna Skinner | |
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|  Stephen Drury –v- BBC | |
| Acting for Defendant in ongoing substantial libel claim brought by a mediator over a Watchdog programme which questioned his suitability for such a role. |
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| Sunderland Housing Co. Ltd and anor –v- Baines and ors | |
| Acting for Claimants in ongoing libel, harassment and data protection claims brought over an anonymous website campaign. |
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| McCracken –v- Northampton Swimming Club (2006) | |
| Acted for the Appellant, Dr McCracken on behalf of her daughter on her successful appeal by way of re-hearing (5 day trial) to the Amateur Swimming Association’s Independent Appeal Committee. Also acted for Dr McCracken in allied proceedings for libel. |
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| Ashley Cole –v- News Group Newspapers (2006) | |
| Acted for the Claimant in libel, harassment and data protection claims. |
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| R v Y (2006) | |
| Advised and appeared for CPS in relation to a reporting restriction preventing the identification of a defendant who had been convicted of paedophile offences. The restriction had been imposed at Middlesex Crown Court with the aim of protecting a muslim girl outside the jurisdiction who was at risk of ‘honour-killing’, it being likely that she would be linked to Y if his name were published. |
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| V v H and anor (2005) | |
| An ongoing claim for libel, privacy and harassment brought by a prominent member of a foreign royal family in respect of various publications and further threatened publications as part of a campaign of blackmail. |
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| X and anor v Y (2005) | |
| In this case claims for privacy and harassment were brought and successfully pursued by a husband and wife against the husband’s male ex-lover who had conducted a campaign of harassment mostly via email consisting of threats to reveal the fact and details of their relationship to friends, family members, and colleagues of, the claimants. |
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| Miller v Associated Newspapers Ltd (2005) | |
| Concerned allegations of negligence made against a senior police officer regarding his conduct of the investigation of the false allegations of sexual assault made by Nadine Milroy-Sloan against Neil and Christine Hamilton and in an earlier rape case. |
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| Steedman and Ors v BBC (2005) | |
| Libel claim brought by 8 police officers in respect of a BBC Radio 5 Live programme in which the parents of Roger Sylvester accused them of his murder but did not refer to them by name. |
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| Re J (2005) | |
| Concerned an injunction made to protect a child which effectively prohibited any reporting of his mother´s trial for manslaughter and arson. |
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| Oliver v CC Northumbria (2004) | |
| In this trial both justification and ‘reply to attack’ qualified privilege were in issue. The claimant was a police officer who had brought a libel claim in respect of a press release, issued in response to press enquiries, which stated that a leaked internal report written by that officer was 'unfounded and discredited'. |
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| Gray v Avadis (2003) | |
| This case was concerned with whether communications sent by a solicitor who was the subject of a complaint to the Office for the Supervision of Solicitors in connection with its investigation of that complaint were protected by absolute privilege. |
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| Lillie and Reed v Newcastle Chronicle and others (2002) | |
| Lorna Skinner represented the defendant newspaper which settled a claim for libel brought by two nursery nurses in respect of articles which falsely accused them of child abuse following the publication of an official report. The claimants went on to win their claim against the writers of that report. |
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