Gill Phillips

Gill Phillips is the Director of Editorial Legal Services for the Guardian News & Media and a media law specialist. She advises on a range of content-related matters including defamation, privacy, contempt of court and reporting restrictions. She has worked as an in-house lawyer dealing with pre- and post- publication review and litigation matters for the BBC, News Group Newspapers and Times Newspapers Limited where she was also Head of Litigation. Since 2009 she has advised Guardian News & Media on its ground-breaking coverage of major issues pertaining to the freedom of information in recent years, including phone-hacking, Wikileaks, the Leveson Inquiry and most recently the NSA leaks from Edward Snowden. She was a member of the Ministry of Justice’s Working Group on Libel Reform. She also sits as a part-time Employment Tribunal Judge and co-authors the College of Law Employment Law handbook.