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People | Louise Prince
Louise is "extremely able" (The Legal 500, 2010) and "well-regarded" (The Legal 500, 2008) in the field of defamation and privacy. She is "straightforward and knows exactly what she is doing" (Chambers and Partners, 2008) and someone who "puts up a strong fight on behalf of her clients" (Chambers and Partners, 2007).
Louise is a Senior Associate in the Media and Information and the Litigation Practices. She is also a member of the Publishing Group.
Louise advises on a wide range of general civil litigation matters to include bringing and defending claims for celebrity individuals and corporate clients, mainly involved in the media, entertainment and leisure industries. Louise specialises in defamation, privacy, content clearance, intellectual property, and general commercial litigation advice.
Louise graduated from Manchester University with an LLB. Louise trained at Mishcon de Reya and joined Harbottle & Lewis as a solicitor in 2000.
Articles by Louise Prince:
Many publishers of fictional books assume that the classic phrase 'any similarities to actual persons, living or dead, or to any actual events, firms, institutions or other entities, is coincidental and unintentional' will protect them if a claim of defamation is made against them. This is not correct. The simple fact of the matter is that if members of the public associate a character in a book with a real-life person, even if that is not the intention, then they may be subject to a claim if an association can be made and defamatory allegations are published.
Recent decisions in the high court and court of Appeal reveal a judiciary keen to address the current gap in the law relating to the protection of private information. The decisions will no doubt send a shiver down the spine of tabloid newspapers, celebrity magazines as well as book publishers because they will have an impact on the type of material that can be published in the future.
