# 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, Senior Juniors and Solicitors

- Format: In-person
- Date: Tuesday, 23 February 2027, 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: Open for booking
- Book: https://whitepaper.co.uk/conferences/defamation27

## 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 Serious Harm: What - right now - amounts to serious harm including evidence on readership, audience overlap, mitigation and the impact of third-party reporting?
  - Answered by William Bennett KC
- 10:45 Honest Opinion: Which way is the wind blowing for meaning and honest opinion including fact/opinion boundaries on social media and the treatment of inference and innuendo?
  - Answered by Sara Mansoori KC
- 11:20 Morning Coffee
- 11:35 Unfair Processing: Is unfair processing the new libel, following Vince v Associated Newspapers [2026] and Pacini & Geyer v Dow Jones [2024], and how do you advance and defend claims for clients?
  - Answered by Lorna Skinner KC
- 12:10 Privacy Expectations: How have the latest cases changed existing thinking on the reasonable expectation of privacy? How are judges reacting and how do you advise clients effectively?
  - Answered by Adam Wolanski KC
- 12:45 Overrun
- 13:00 Lunch
- 13:45 Data Subject Access Requests: How do you deal with and curtail DSAR weaponisation, e.g. seeking source information for defamation claims, followed by data protection claims when that information is withheld?
  - Answered by David Mitchell, 39 Essex Chambers
- 14:20 AI-Generated Harm: How do you control - and overcome - difficulties with AI-generated reputational harm including fake biographies, hallucinated allegations, satirical memes and who to sue?
  - Answered by Jonathan Price KC
- 14:55 Public Interest: How far can you push the court with public interest arguments in light of recent cases including multiple complainants, historic conduct and serious professional consequences?
  - Answered by Beth Grossman, Doughty Street Chambers
- 15:30 Overrun
- 16:00 Close of Conference

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