Biography
Mark has over 35 years’ experience as a media litigator. He pioneered the phone-hacking claims that led to the closure of the News of the World, and record damages for the Dowler family of £3 million.
The precedents from his cases feature in most libel #cases. Mark took the first “Twibel” case to trial, successfully representing Food Blogger, Jack Monroe against Katie Hopkins. In 2019 he acted for Martin Lewis the Money Saving Expert) against Facebook in the campaigning litigation obtaining a multi-million pound settlement to protect victims of online scams.
Selection of Recent/Current cases include:
| The successful defence of Mohammed Hijab’s libel claim for Douglas Murray | |
| Douglas Murray’s successful claim against The Guardian | |
| Successfully defending Mukhtar Hussain against Lawrence Fox | |
| Resisting Dale Vince’s appeal for Richard Tice MP (case continues) | |
| Suing Mark Seddon for Col Richard Kemp (continuing) | |
| Representing Natasha Hausdorff against Piers Morgan (continuing) | |
| Acting for John Ware against Roger Waters and Al Jazeera (continuing) | |
| Successfully representing Allison Pearson v Roger Hirst, the elected Police Commissioner | |
| Obtaining an injunction for Lord Ranger against Poonam Joshi | |
| Seeking Judicial Review of Forfeiture Committee’s removal of Lord Ranger’s CBE (continuing) | |
| Successfully defending Naomi Parry from a claim by Mitch Winehouse in respect of items associated with the late singer Amy Winehouse | |
| Acting for defendants in retrial of libel counterclaim by Lawrence Fox |