Helen Morris

Helen Morris leads Kingsley Napley’s successful Reputation and Media team and is a highly regarded litigator with over 20 years of experience.

Helen has a proven track record of representing both claimants and defendants who are facing damaging attacks on their reputation, and has worked on a range of high-profile defamation, privacy, harassment and data protection cases.

She specialises in particular in providing pre and post-publication advice to a broad range of clients, from high profile celebrities and sports stars to politicians, heads of international institutions and HNW families.

Her goal is always to pre-empt any risk for her clients, and she employs creative and highly effective solutions to ensure their personal and professional lives and businesses are kept out of the spotlight, including obtaining and resisting injunctions.

Helen also has extensive experience advising clients in harassment and blackmail cases. She understands the unique vulnerabilities that individuals, families and corporates face at such times, and can provide tailored guidance to protect their interests.

In the event that there is the potential for a regulatory and/or criminal investigation, Helen is able to draw on the expertise of her top-ranked colleagues to provide comprehensive advice and support at every stage of the process.

In addition to advising individual clients and their families, Helen also acts for corporate entities, providing long-term strategic advice, litigation support and crisis management.

Helen is named in Spear’s 2025 as a Recommended Reputation & Privacy Lawyer, and in Chambers UK for Defamation & Reputation Management. She was shortlisted for 'Lawyer of the Year – Reputation’ at the 2023 Spears Awards. 

Recent and Current Cases

• Acting for a former Prime Minister in a data protection and libel claim.
• Advising a celebrity client on trademark infringement.
• Advising a picture agency threatened with a copyright infringement claim.
• Advising an educational institution on its intellectual property rights in relation to a former employee’s use of social media.
• Acting for a financial services company threatened with inclusion in a prime time television broadcast regarding allegations of wrongdoing, which resulted in it being omitted from the broadcast.
• Acting for a well-known actress in relation to inaccurate stories published in the national press which resulted in their removal.
• Advising clients in relation to privacy and harassment claims following family and relationship breakdown.
• Acting for a wide range of clients in providing pre-publication advice and successfully deterring newspapers from publishing material that is damaging to reputation.
• Acting for a telecommunications company in relation to claims made by a broadcaster that they had engaged in illegal activity, which resulted in it being omitted from the broadcast.
• Acting for a wide range of clients in having defamatory, private and inaccurate material removed from websites.
• Providing reputation management advice to clients who are under criminal or regulatory investigation.
• Advising a charity in relation to a privacy, fairness and due impartiality complaint to Ofcom in relation to a high profile TV programme.
• Acting for clients in complaints to the press regulator IPSO on the grounds of inaccuracy and press harassment.

Other notable cases

• Freddie Starr v Karin Ward [2015] EWHC 1987 (QB) ­- Acting for the Defendant in her successful defence of a libel claim.
• Joseph v Spiller [2012] EWHC 2958 (QB) - Acting for the Defendant in defence of a libel claim in which it was established that the claimants had fabricated a special damages claim.
• CTB v Thomas and NGN Ltd [2011] EWHC 1232 (QB) – acted for the First Defendant in the highly publicised privacy injunction brought by Ryan Giggs.
• Frank Cook MP v Telegraph Media Group Ltd [2011] EWHC 1519 (QB) – successfully defending a newspaper publisher in a libel claim brought in relation to MP’s expenses.
• CDE & Anor v MGN Ltd & Anor [2010] EWHC 3308 – representing a well-known actor in obtaining a privacy injunction.
• Alin Turcu v News Group Newspapers Ltd [2005] EWHC 799 (QB) – acting for the Claimant in obtaining fresh evidence, on which the Court of Appeal granted permission to appeal.
• Brian Maccaba v Dayan Lichtenstein [2005] EMLR 109 - successfully defending the Defendant in the longest slander trial in legal history.

WHAT CLIENTS AND DIRECTORIES SAY

Helen Morris is a very safe pair of hands. She is incredibly user-friendly, and clients are always very positive about her."

Chambers and Partners, High Net Worth Guide, 2025

Helen did a brilliant job. She is highly knowledgeable, highly realistic, practical and fun to work with."

Chambers and Partners, High Net Worth Guide, 2025

I trust and rate her as a bright and knowledgeable lawyer who is also an empathetic human."

Chambers and Partners, High Net Worth Guide, 2025

Helen inspired absolute confidence. Her knowledge of the law was very impressive."

Chambers and Partners, 2025

Helen is brilliant. She was able to get a clear grasp of a complex set of issues and represent my position with clarity."

Chambers and Partners, 2025

Helen was excellent, efficient, professional, knowledgeable and acted quickly but with caution."

Chambers and Partners, 2025

Helen is very helpful and always able to put the legal issues into a sensible real-world context."

Chambers and Partners, 2025

Helen is responsive and clearly knows her onions."

Chambers and Partners, 2025

Helen Morris is smart and very well prepared at all times. Her experience serves her well, and she is always available to answer questions. She listens to her clients and provides excellent advice. She is very approachable."

The Legal 500, 2025

Helen Morris has very good legal knowledge and experience of defamation, privacy and data protection. She can handle both traditional media claims and also data and privacy in the social media online sphere and is experienced on the data regulatory side too."

The Legal 500, 2025

Helen Morris is great and experienced."

The Legal 500, 2024

Helen Morris is an exceptional lawyer who genuinely cares about getting the best outcome for her clients. Helen is incredibly calm and considered, and all of her advice is underpinned by an unrivalled knowledge of privacy law."

The Legal 500, 2024

Helen dealt with a complex privacy matter for me, and she absolutely ran rings around the other side. I could not have hoped for a more personable and intellectually sharp lawyer to deal with my matter."

The Legal 500, 2024

Helen Morris is approachable, sensible and an extremely good and capable lawyer."

The Legal 500, 2024

Helen is an incredibly astute, compassionate and intellectual lawyer."

Chambers and Partners, 2024

Sensible and pragmatic, she doesn't get lost in the fight. She can see the wood for the trees."

Chambers and Partners, 2024

Helen Morris is a solid lawyer and very experienced."

Chambers and Partners, High Net Worth Guide, 2023

Helen Morris is very personable, easy to work with and very knowledgeable."

Chambers and Partners, High Net Worth Guide, 2023

Helen Morris is a relatively newly made partner and is excellent with clients, has great strategic sense and works very well as a part of a solicitor/counsel team. She has years of experience of libel and privacy claims and brings an unusual perspective of having worked for both defendants and claimants."

The Legal 500, 2023