Hugh Richard Edward Tomlinson[1][2] KC (born January 1954 in Leeds) is a barrister in England and Wales, an English translator of the philosopher Gilles Deleuze and a founding member of Matrix Chambers.
He acted in the litigation that sought the full disclosure of UK MP's parliamentary expenses[3] and in the Phone hacking scandal case.
After winning a place at Leeds Grammar School he went on to Balliol College, Oxford where he earned the top first in the University in PPE.
[27] Tomlinson is known as a "super injunction"[28] specialist protecting celebrities from the disclosure of "private" information but in accordance with the bar’s taxi rank principle he works on both sides of this legal divide.
[31] Tomlinson successfully represented the publisher HarperCollins when the BBC sought to prevent a publication revealing the identity of Top Gear’s secret racing-driver, The Stig.
Murat, an Anglo Portuguese local seeking to help was falsely accused by the British press of being involved in the disappearance of the three-year-old Madeleine McCann.
[36] He acted for Amnesty International in its subsequent challenge to the legality of the bulk interception of communications by UK intelligence agencies in the European Court of Human Rights.
[37] Tomlinson represented the pianist James Rhodes in his successful 2015 appeal to the Supreme Court which led to the overturning of an injunction to prevent the publication of his autobiography, Instrumental.