Hanna Basha is a top privacy and media lawyer at Payne Hicks Beach

Payne Hicks Beach top ranked in Chambers UK 2021 legal directory

Following the publication of Chambers UK 2021 legal directory, we are delighted to be top-ranked (Band 1) in Family and also to receive firm rankings for Defamation/Reputation Management and Agriculture & ...

The Legal 500 UK 2021: Payne Hicks Beach ranked Tier 1 Leading Firm

Payne Hicks Beach is proud that the firm continues with its ranking as a Top Tier Firm in Family and sees the firm recognised as a Leading Firm in 17 other ...

Payne Hicks Beach top ranked in Chambers High Net Worth 2020

Chambers & Partners has published the 2020 edition of their High Net Worth (HNW) Guide and Payne Hicks Beach is delighted to be top-ranked (Band 1) in Family: High Net Worth and ...

The Spear’s 500 2020: Payne Hicks Beach lawyers listed

We are proud that our leading lawyers from our speclialist practice areas of Family, Property, Private Client, Contentious Trusts & Probate, Privacy & Media Law, Landed Estates & Agriculture ...

The Spear’s Reputation Lawyers Index 2020: Dominic Crossley and Hanna Basha

We are delighted that specialist privacy and media law lawyers, Dominic Crossley, Partner and Head of Dispute Resolution and Hanna Basha, Dispute Resolution Partner, are listed in The Spear ...

Spear’s Wealth Management Award 2019: Hanna Basha shortlisted for Reputation Management Lawyer of the Year

We are delighted that Hanna Basha, Partner in the leading Privacy and Media Law department at Payne Hicks Beach is shortlisted for the individual award of "Reputation Management Lawyer ...

Dr Daniel Poulter MP wins apology, substantial damages and costs from Times Newspapers Limited over The Sunday Times reporting of fellow MP’s false sex claims

Press Release Dr Daniel Poulter MP wins apology, substantial damages and costs from Times Newspapers limited over The Sunday Times reporting of fellow MP’s false sex claims Dr ...

Bruno beats News Group Newspapers

Press Release More used to winning his fights in the ring, Frank Bruno, Britain’s best loved boxer and former heavyweight champion of the world, was forced to ...

The Legal 500 UK 2017: Payne Hicks Beach ranked Tier 1 Leading Firm

Payne Hicks Beach is pleased to announce that the firm has been ranked as a Top Tier Firm in Family and a Leading Firm in 14 other practice areas, together with 7 ...

Coverage of Hanna Basha and Nick Grant joining Payne Hicks Beach

Media coverage of the appointment of the appointment of Hanna Basha as Partner and Nick Grant as solicitor in the Privacy & Media Law ...

Payne Hicks Beach further strengthens its Privacy & Media Law offering

Leading London law firm, Payne Hicks Beach, is delighted to announce that it has expanded its Privacy and Media Law Department. Hanna Basha joins as a Partner with ...

Privacy and Media Law expert Hanna Basha comments for Law360 on the Government’s proposed curbs on ‘strategic lawsuits against public participation’ (SLAPPs)

With the UK government taking evidence on how it can change the law to make it less costly and easier for media representatives to defend themselves against SLAPPs, Payne Hicks ...

Supreme Court privacy ruling to protect suspects in criminal investigations

The UK Supreme Court's ruling in the ZXC v Bloomberg case means that suspects in the majority of criminal investigations have the right not to be named by media ...

Payne Hicks Beach lawyers listed in The Spear’s Reputation Lawyers Index 2022

Six specialist reputation management lawyers from Payne Hicks Beach are named in the Spear’s Reputation Lawyers Index 2022. Dominic Crossley, Hanna Basha, Nick Grant, Lucas Moore, Ane Vernon and ...

Payne Hicks Beach top ranked in Chambers UK 2022

Following the publication of Chambers UK 2022 legal directory, we are delighted to be top-ranked (Band 1) in Family. The firm is also ranked for its Defamation/Reputation Management and ...

LexisNexis: Continuing online publication and the public interest defence (Lachaux v Independent Print and another)

Article by Nick Grant, Senior Associate specialising in privacy and media law in the Dispute Resolution Department at Payne Hicks Beach, first published by Lexis ®PSL on 16 July 2021. In ...

Double first for Payne Hicks Beach in Chambers High Net Worth 2021 rankings

In the recently published 2021 edition of the Chambers High Net Worth Guide, Payne Hicks Beach is proud to receive a Band 1 ranking for both its Defamation/Reputation Management: High Net ...

Is the UK still a top destination for international students in 2021?

International students have made up roughly 20% of the student population in the UK higher education system since 2009, but will this still be the case in 2021 as we wait to see ...

Schools: balancing discipline and privacy

Article by Ane Vernon, Partner and schools and education specialist lawyer and Hanna Basha, Partner and privacy and media law specialist in the Dispute Resolution ...

Payne Hicks Beach lawyers listed in the The Spear’s Reputation Lawyers Index 2021

We are delighted that Dominic Crossley, Hanna Basha, Lucas Moore and Andrew Willan specialist reputation management lawyers from our leading Dispute Resolution department are listed in The Spear’s ...

Payne Hicks Beach lawyers listed in The Spear’s 500 2021

We are proud that our leading lawyers from our specialist practice areas of Family, Private Client, Contentious Trusts & Probate, Privacy & Media Law, Property, Landed Estates & Agriculture ...

Sunset for celeb libel circus? Hanna Basha for The Law Society Gazette

Commentary by Hanna Basha, Dispute Resolution Partner in the Privacy and Defamation Team, at Payne Hicks Beach, on the outcome of the Johnny Depp defamation ...

How Johnny Depp has lost more than his libel case - Hanna Basha for The Times

Commentary by Hanna Basha, Dispute Resolution Partner in the Privacy and Defamation Team, at Payne Hicks Beach, on Johnny Depp's libel claim defeat in ...

The end of a town called Sue? Hanna Basha for The Law Society Gazette

Commentary by Hanna Basha, Dispute Resolution Partner in the Privacy and Defamation Team, at Payne Hicks Beach, on Johnny Depp losing his libel case against ...

Reputation in the eyes of the law

Article by Hanna Basha, Dispute Resolution, Partner in the Privacy and Defamation Team, at Payne Hicks Beach, in which she discusses the benefits of leading ...

Managing Reputations: Reflections on Facebook’s legal wrangles

Article by Hanna Basha, Dispute Resolution partner and privacy and media law specialist at Payne Hicks Beach, looking at recent European cases involving Facebook that ...

Reputation rescurrection

Article by Hanna Basha, Dispute Resolution partner and privacy and media law specialist at Payne Hicks Beach, discussing reputation resurrection and how family members can ...

Influence: #Hacked - even @Jack is not safe from hackers

Article by Hanna Basha, Dispute Resolution partner and privacy and media law specialist at Payne Hicks Beach, discussing how companies with CEOs with large social ...

Bruno settles High Court phone hacking claim against NGN – Hanna Basha quoted

Hanna Basha, Dispute Resolution partner and specialist privacy and media lawyer, read out in Court at Statement on behalf of her client, Frank Bruno, on 27 September 2018. Hanna’s ...

Google: Is there an argument for remaining anonymous when trying to protect your reputation

Article by Hanna Basha, Dispute Resolution partner and privacy law specialist at Payne Hicks Beach, first published online in PR Week on 28 September 2018 and reproduced with kind permission. ...

Will Elon Musk cave?

Article by Hanna Basha, Dispute Resolution partner and privacy law specialist at Payne Hicks Beach, first published online in Spear's on 26 September 2018 and reproduced with kind ...

Legal update: media law - The right of erasure

Article by Hanna Basha, Partner and Nick Grant, Solicitor in the Privacy and Media Law Department, first published online in The Law Society Gazette on 3 July 2017 and is ...