Gavin Millar QC joined the Centre for Investigative Journalism Board in 2008. He is a practising barrister specialising in media, public and employment (and discrimination) law.
Gavin studied law at Oxford and was called to the Bar in 1981. He is a founder member of the leading human rights set, Doughty Street Chambers.
Much of Gavin’s media work is for clients asserting free speech rights. He mainly undertakes defamation, privacy, contempt and reporting restriction cases. He acts for the BBC, Times, Guardian among other well-known UK media organisations, as well as many smaller publishers as well as addition to American publishers when they are sued in the UK.
Gavin co-authored Media Law and Human Rights.