Anna Barnett

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Anna advises on cyber incidents and data breaches, including third party litigation arising from theses breaches.  

She also advises individuals and corporate clients on harassment and defamation, including ‘Right to be Forgotten’ claims, to sensitively protect the reputations and private lives of clients. 

Anna provides pragmatic advice, and acts on complex and sensitive issues, online reputation and crisis management in the UK and internationally. 

Anna’s extensive litigation and conflict resolution experience enables her to run cases effectively from the outset, focusing on how to achieve a positive outcome for clients. 

Experience

• Successfully ended a long running campaign of harassment and defamation on the moneysavingexpert.com website by a competitor.
• Identifying the perpetrator of a long-running campaign of online harassment by obtaining a disclosure order against various online platforms.
• Securing the removal of a blog created on blogspot.com to anonymously publish defamatory allegations against an American physicist in a 10-year campaign of harassment and defamation.
• Shutting down hate campaigns orchestrated via social media. 
• Pursuing publishers to remove defamatory content from ‘clickbait’ or similar paid for content.