Barristers
Joanne Cash
Email:
jc@onebrickcourt.com
Call: 1994
SPECIALISATION
- Defamation
- Malicious Falsehood/Trade libel
- Privacy and Confidence
- Injunctions
- Harassment
- Reporting Restrictions
- Contempt of Court
- Protection of Sources
- Freedom of Information
- Regulation of Investigatory Powers
- Access to Court Documents
- Pre-publication Advice
- Obscenity laws & Censorship
- Human Rights Law, particularly articles 8 and 10 of the ECHR
Joanne specialises in cases involving free speech . Joanne also advises a number of Media and Human Rights Organisations.
RECOMMENDATIONS
Joanne is consistently recommended as a "Leading Junior" in Defamation/Privacy in Chambers and Partners Guide to the Legal Profession and in the Legal 500 Directory and Legal Experts.
Joanne Cash is "dependable and assured – she's a formidable barrister with a superb grasp of media law and a very sharp mind." One client commented: "I'm a big fan because we've got some very good results with her."
Chambers and Partners 2010
Joanne Cash is “dependable and assured”
Legal 500 2009/10
“Very user-friendly and responsive”
Legal 500 2007/8
Another to often outfox her opponent is Joanne Cash, “an innovative lateral thinker, committed to and interested in what clients want.” She was involved in Zac Goldsmith v Guardian Newspapers where she acted for Goldsmith in a claim regarding a front page article in the Observer. She secured £75,000 in damages plus costs for her client.
Chambers UK 2008
“A lovely way with words,” Joanne Cash, someone who “smashes the opposition” with her “terrific knowledge on privacy and reporting restrictions.”
Chambers UK 2007
ACADEMIC AND PROFESSIONAL QUALIFICATIONS
BA Hons Oxon (Lady Margaret Hall)
Gray's Inn Scholar
REPRESENTATIVE CASES OF INTEREST
- North London Central Mosque Trust v Policy Exchange
- Ivereigh v Associated Newspapers
- Trudi Styler v Telegraph & Ors
- Mike Hollingsworth v Associated Newspapers
- Zac Goldsmith v Observer
- George Ayling v MGN Ltd
- Elle McPherson v Hello Magazine
- Grunwick v Times
- Afriyie v Associated Newspapers (2004)
- Atkinson v Associated Newspapers (2004)
- Cassini v Telegraph Group (2004)
- R v Shirley Capp, ex parte News Group Newspapers (2004)
- Howlett v Holding and Holding Barnes Ltd (2003) QBD
- O’Grady v John Calder and Calder Publications (2003) QBD
- Tanner v Filby and Howell (2003) QBD
- R v Harris, ex parte Times and Guardian Newspapers Ltd (2003)
- Taylor and Daintree v Blackburn Sachs Associates (2003)
- Braddock v Exile Productions, ex parte Associated Newspapers plc, Ulster Television & Ors (2002)
- Devine v University of Bristol (2003)
- Dorte Schmidt-Brown v Eurogramme Limited (2003)
- R v J, ex parte The Hendon Times (2002)
- A v Hull Daily Mail & East Yorks Hospitals NHS Trust, ex parte Hull Daily Mail (2002)
- Beko v Basingstoke & Deane Borough Council (2002)
- R v Brown, ex parte Luton News (2002)
- James Mawdsley v Guardian Newspapers Ltd (2002)
- R v Michael Stone, ex parte BBC (2001)
- R v Hella Gamper & Ors ex parte Surrey & Sussex Newspapers (2001)
- Re Grimsby Evening Telegraph (2001)
- Re: Dr Brook General Medical Council Appeal from Disciplinary Hearing (2001)
- R v Dale Hewitt (2001)
- Michael Cassidy v David Hawcroft (2000) CA
- Eugenia Williams v MGN Ltd (2000)
- Re: Dr G, GMC hearing (1999)
- Rotherham Rugby Union Football Ltd (2) English Second Division Rugby Ltd v English First Division Rugby Ltd (2) English Rugby Partnership Ltd (3) The Rugby Football Union (1999) Ch D R v Patel, ex parte Associated Newspapers Ltd, Times Newspapers Ltd and BBC (1999)
- Mark Jones and Ebbw Vale Rugby Football Club v RFU (1999)
PUBLICATIONS AND SEMINARS
Bar Council team for the training of other barristers in CPR and human rights development.
Articles and papers on fair comment, qualified privilege, reporting restrictions and privacy developments and human rights.
Chair of Free Speech Debate at the Convention on Modern liberty.
Regular contributor to debate on reform of laws on libel and free speech.
Secretary to commission for Bill of Rights.