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Jonathan Barnes KC

Jonathan Barnes KC

Jonathan Barnes KC joined specialist media and communications set 5RB – then 5 Raymond Buildings – in 2000 on completion of pupillage and took silk in 2021. He has acted in a number of cases concerned with online liability. He represented the internet service provider Tiscali in Bunt v Tilley (2006), which confirmed that an ISP could not be deemed to be a ‘publisher’ under English common law. More recently he acted for the claimants in NT1 & NT2 v Google LLC (2018), resulting in the first ‘right to be forgotten’ de-listing order made against Google in England and Wales.

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The Online Safety Act 2023 – where are we now?

Jonathan Barnes KC and Samuel Rowe assess the outlook for freedom of speech and OFCOM’s role as designated online harms regulator

14 October 2024
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Defamation County Court

Jonathan Barnes examines the High Court’s effective monopoly on hearing defamation cases, and against a background of calls for county courts to get involved too asks, WHY NOT?

On October 2011 the Parliamentary Joint Committee on the then Draft Defamation Bill considered at paragraph 87 of its First Report that the availability of county courts to hear defamation cases, particularly outside London, should increase accessibility for ordinary citizens and would, in many cases, reduce costs as well. The Committee suggested that the Ministry of Justice should implement a pilot scheme to determine how this proposal might work in practice.

10 July 2014
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