Gill Phillips
Gill is a highly experienced, effective and well-respected editorial content lawyer, advising on all aspects of pre-and post-publication including defamation, privacy and data protection, contempt, confidentiality and copyright.
Gill was the Guardian's Director of Editorial Legal Services between 2009 and 2023, advising on phone hacking, Wikileaks, the Trafigura injunction, the Leveson Inquiry, the NSA leaks from Edward Snowden as well as big data leak projects such as the Panama Papers, the Pegasus Project and the Uber files. In all of her work, Gill’s advice embraced a blend of legal and ethical considerations.
Qualifying as a solicitor in 1984, Gill joined the BBC as an in-house content and employment lawyer in 1987, and later worked for News Group Newspapers and Times Newspapers.
Gill is the current co-editor of McNae's Essential Law for Journalists. Gill also sits as a part-time Employment Tribunal Judge and co-authors the College of Law Employment Law handbook. She is a non-resident fellow of the Centre for Media, Data and Society at the Central European University School of Public Policy and holds an honorary law doctorate from London South Bank University.
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