Dougal is a Senior Associate in the Defamation & Media team, who joined BHF from Minter Ellison in 2024. He acts for publishers in defamation and media litigation, and in intellectual property and general commercial disputes.

Dougal provides urgent pre-publication advice to newsrooms and editors across Australia (covering defamation, intellectual property, contempt of court, suppression, statutory reporting restrictions, trade practices, privacy, and confidentiality). He also holds interests in financial crime advisory and regulatory matters, competition and consumer law, and sports law.

He is the co-author of the "Australian Media Law" Chapter of the International Libel and Privacy Handbook (LexisNexis, 2020-2021 and 2022-2023 editions),and was a contributor to the Neuberger and Clooney edited Freedom of Speech in International Law (OUP, 2024).

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