Spear’s Review

As a partner in Simons Muirhead Burton’s media and communications disputes team, Louis Charalambous heads up a busy practice covering defamation, privacy and breach of confidence, contempt of court and public law, with clients including major broadcasters and national newspapers.

A recognised specialist in crime-related media work – including libel, privacy, contempt and production orders – Charalambous also advises private clients with a focus on providing strategic and actionable advice with the utmost discretion. He has significant experience with emergency injunction applications.

Notable cases include acting for Channel 4 and ITN in their successful defence of a libel claim by Dyson, and for Christopher Jefferies, the retired schoolteacher who won significant damages in libel claims against eight newspapers. The latter case became an award-winning television drama, The Lost Honour of Christopher Jefferies.