Hugh Tomlinson
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Hugh Tomlinson QC
, is an English barrister
at Matrix Chambers
. He is a specialist in media and information law including defamation, confidence, privacy and data protection.
. Tomlinson joined the bar in 1983, Tomlinson became a QC
in 2002. Tomlinson is a member – alongside Cherie Booth, Professor Philippe Sands
and the former DPP Lord Macdonald – of the London-based Matrix Chambers
.
QC
In Commonwealth countries, QC refers to Queen's Counsel, a distinguished and experienced legal practitioner.QC may also refer to:* Quebec Canada Post provincial abbreviation...
, is an English barrister
Barrister
A barrister is a member of one of the two classes of lawyer found in many common law jurisdictions with split legal professions. Barristers specialise in courtroom advocacy, drafting legal pleadings and giving expert legal opinions...
at Matrix Chambers
Matrix Chambers
Matrix Chambers is a barristers’ set situated at Gray’s Inn, London. It was founded in April 2000 by 22 barristers from 7 different chambers.Matrix was founded shortly before the implementation of the Human Rights Act in October 2000...
. He is a specialist in media and information law including defamation, confidence, privacy and data protection.
Education and career
Tomlinson studied philosophy, not law, at university, pursuing research, after Oxford, at Sussex and Paris. He has translated seven books of the post-modernist French thinker Gilles DeleuzeGilles Deleuze
Gilles Deleuze , was a French philosopher who, from the early 1960s until his death, wrote influentially on philosophy, literature, film, and fine art. His most popular works were the two volumes of Capitalism and Schizophrenia: Anti-Oedipus and A Thousand Plateaus , both co-written with Félix...
. Tomlinson joined the bar in 1983, Tomlinson became a QC
QC
In Commonwealth countries, QC refers to Queen's Counsel, a distinguished and experienced legal practitioner.QC may also refer to:* Quebec Canada Post provincial abbreviation...
in 2002. Tomlinson is a member – alongside Cherie Booth, Professor Philippe Sands
Philippe Sands
Philippe Sands, QC is a British lawyer at Matrix Chambers, and is Professor of International law at University College London. Sands is notable for writing a book, Lawless World, in which he accused US President George W. Bush and Prime Minister Tony Blair of conspiring to invade Iraq in violation...
and the former DPP Lord Macdonald – of the London-based Matrix Chambers
Matrix Chambers
Matrix Chambers is a barristers’ set situated at Gray’s Inn, London. It was founded in April 2000 by 22 barristers from 7 different chambers.Matrix was founded shortly before the implementation of the Human Rights Act in October 2000...
.
Publications
- ‘Implications for the Private Sector’ in P Carey and M Turle eds, Freedom of Information Handbook (2nd Edn, Law SocietyLaw societyA Law Society in current and former Commonwealth jurisdictions was historically an association of solicitors with a regulatory role that included the right to supervise the training, qualifications and conduct of lawyers/solicitors...
, 2008) - Civil Actions Against the Police, with R Clayton (Sweet & MaxwellSweet & MaxwellSweet & Maxwell is a British publisher specialising in legal publications. It joined the Associated Book Publishers in 1969; ABP was purchased by the Thomson Organization in 1987, and is now part of Thomson Reuters. Its British group includes W. Green in Scotland and Round Hall in Ireland...
, 3rd Edition, 2004) - The Law of Human Rights, with R Clayton, (Oxford University PressOxford University PressOxford University Press is the largest university press in the world. It is a department of the University of Oxford and is governed by a group of 15 academics appointed by the Vice-Chancellor known as the Delegates of the Press. They are headed by the Secretary to the Delegates, who serves as...
, 2nd Edition, 2009). - The Law of Personal Privacy (Hart Publishing, forthcoming).
- Lenders Claim, with T Grant (Sweet & MaxwellSweet & MaxwellSweet & Maxwell is a British publisher specialising in legal publications. It joined the Associated Book Publishers in 1969; ABP was purchased by the Thomson Organization in 1987, and is now part of Thomson Reuters. Its British group includes W. Green in Scotland and Round Hall in Ireland...
, 2010)
External links
- Hugh Tomlinson Matrix Chambers Profile (Matrix Chambers)