A major new UN study of 121 countries' legal source protection frameworks has found that they are out of date and need strengthening in many cases. It also recommends that ‘acts of journalism’ s...
Gill Phillips
dir. legal services The Guardian (via skype)
Gill Phillips is Director of Editorial Legal Services for Guardian News & Media Limited (publishers of the Guardian and Observer newspapers and theguardian.com). She qualified as a solicitor in 1984 and joined the BBC as an in-house lawyer in 1987, later working for News Group Newspapers and Times Newspapers. She advises on a range of content-related legal matters including defamation, privacy, contempt of court and reporting restrictions. She was involved in the Trafigura super injunction case and was a member of the Master of the Rolls Injunction Committee. She has advised GNM on phone-hacking, Wikileaks, the Leveson Inquiry, the NSA leaks from Edward Snowden and the HSBC files.