5RB

5RB is a leading set of media and communications law barristers who practise in all areas of media law, including defamation, privacy, confidence, data protection, harassment, media regulation, intellectual property, sport and human rights.

Members of 5RB provide the full range of legal services within our specialism of media and communications law, including advocacy; advice – in conference and as written Opinions; the preparation of pleadings and other legal documents; drafting legal correspondence; advice to the media in respect of action by, and the decisions of, media regulators; and pre-publication advice – including ‘libel reading’ for newspapers, book publishers and broadcasters.

Members are used to being instructed at short notice to seek and resist pre-publication injunctions. They also appear in arbitrations and mediations and represent or advise clients before professional, regulatory and disciplinary tribunals.