# Defamation, Privacy, Data: Shaping New Law into Solution-Focused Answers for Clients

> Court-Proven, Solution-Focused Answers to 7 Thorny Questions: Directly from Top-Flight KCs, Judges, Senior Juniors and Solicitors

- Format: In-person
- Date: Tuesday, 18 November 2025, 10:00AM to 4:00PM (registration from 9:30AM)
- Venue: The Caledonian Club, 9 Halkin Street, London, SW1X 7DR
- 5 hours CPD
- Rates: Live Attendance £299.00 + VAT per person
- Status: This conference has taken place
- Book: https://whitepaper.co.uk/conferences/defamation25

## Programme

- 09:30 Registration and coffee
- 10:00 Chair's Introduction: Defamation, Privacy, Data: Shaping new law into solution-focused answers for clients
  - Chaired by Nigel Tait, Carter-Ruck
- 10:10 Public Interest: How do you control - and overcome - difficulties with the Public Interest defence including evidence, reasonable belief and confidential sources?
  - Answered by Adam Wolanski KC
- 10:45 3rd Party Hosts: How do you compel third-party hosts to take down websites that contain defamatory content and pursue claims against persons unknown who operate online?
  - Answered by Jonathan Price KC
- 11:20 Morning coffee
- 11:35 GDPR/Art 8: How do you deploy privacy and data protection arguments to protect reputation - including GDPR, the right to be forgotten, and Article 8?
  - Answered by Lorna Skinner KC
- 12:10 Serious Harm: How do you use the serious harm test tactically—for example, by relying on a claimant’s prior bad reputation, challenging the defamatory meaning, or striking claims out early?
  - Answered by Anthony Hudson KC
- 12:45 Overrun
- 13:00 Lunch
- 13:45 Honest Opinion: How potent is the honest opinion defence—and how are courts interpreting it in practice when meaning, fact/opinion, and factual basis are in dispute?
  - Answered by William Bennett KC
- 14:20 SLAPPS: What is the latest thinking on SLAPPs and litigation behaviour - in light of potential disciplinary action for lawyers who run them?
  - Answered by David Mitchell, 39 Essex
- 14:55 AI Tools: Where are the legal boundaries when AI tools infringe privacy, misuse copyright or defame - and who should be held liable: the user, the platform, or the model's creator?
  - Answered by Dan Tench, CMS
- 15:30 Over-run
- 16:00 Close of conference

## How to book

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