Each person and every organisation generally have the right to their good reputation. With the growth, speed and immediacy of universal communication reputations are being more easily and frequently undermined than ever before.

English defamation law has been brought substantially up-to-date as a result of recent legislation, but nonetheless remains a difficult and rather arcane area of English law. We have the specialist ability to provide an excellent defamation service at a cost substantially lower than is normally charged by defamation lawyers.

Recent defamation work undertaken by Prettys has included;

- acting for a professional footballer in relation to media claim about a criminal conviction;

- acting for the chairman of a substantial sporting organisation who was reported in the media as having been party to financial mismanagement;

- acting for a police authority in relation to claims that it had libelled someone about suspected criminal activities;

- acting for a company whose solvency was being doubted by a supplier.