Senior barrister joins media team
Senior barrister at the BBC, Nicola Cain has joined RPC as a legal director. Nicola will sit within the firm's well-established media practice and her arrival will also bring significant additional contentious data protection expertise to RPC's multi-disciplinary data protection group.
Nicola has over eight years’ experience as a barrister and extensive knowledge of all aspects of media and information law and data protection and regulation. While at the BBC, Nicola provided both pre-publication and litigation advice on a wide range of programmes including Panorama, Top Gear and Have I Got News For You. She had responsibility for all FOI legal advice, internal reviews, complaints to the Information Commissioner and litigation, as well as advising on aspects of data protection compliance, significant cyber-incidents and data breaches, complaints, regulatory investigations and enforcement and litigation.
Prior to joining the BBC, Nicola trained at the specialist media and entertainment law set of chambers 5RB.
Nicola has also co-authored the third edition of Defamation: Law, Procedure and Practice and was the assistant editor of Human Rights Practice. She has spoken at numerous industry events including the Information Commissioner’s conference on the Right to be Forgotten in 2015.
Keith Mathieson, partner and head of RPC’s media team comments: “Nicola’s appointment will help to further strengthen the media team here at RPC and in particular the firm's contentious data protection capabilities.”
“Data protection is an increasingly important area for RPC's commercial and insurance client base, and so the vast experience and knowledge that Nicola has gained whilst working in-house at one of the world’s busiest media organisations will be invaluable to our clients.”
Nicola adds: “RPC’s Media team has extensive knowledge of the media landscape and the issues that affect it.”
“By moving into private practice, I’ll be able to take what I’ve learned from my time in house and apply it to a wider range of clients and cases.”
