Rachel Atkins debates privacy for Intelligence Squared

Rachel Atkins

Partner at Schillings law firm, specialising in privacy and defamation. She has successfully acted for Wayne Rooney, Sir Stelios Haji-loannou, Kate Winslet and others.

Rachel Atkins is a partner at Schillings law firm, specialising in reputation protection for corporate organisations, entrepreneurs and high-profile individuals from both the business world and entertainment industry. She also heads up Schillings’ family law department ensuring damaging press coverage does not make the coping with family disputes more difficult.

In July this year Rachel successfully obtained an apology and damages for the founder of easyJet and the easyGroup business empire, Sir Stelios Haji-loannou against Michael O’Leary and Ryanair.

As part of the firm’s family and matrimonial practice, Rachel successfully acted for a high profile celebrity father, who supported by the mother, successfully challenged the media’s right of access under rules designed to open up family courts to public scrutiny. In the first test case under the rules the High Court division ruled that the media should be excluded from the hearing in the best interests of the child.