Charlie Moloney is a freelance journalist and media law trainer. Charlie draws on an extensive knowledge of reporting from courts for national publishers - including the Times, the Guardian, the Mail on Sunday and the Law Society Gazette. See clippings below. He has been cited in McNae’s Essential Law for Journalists (27th edition, 2024) and the UK Media Law Pocketbook (2nd edition, 2022). He has obtained a law degree with distinction and won the Oxford University Press Media Law Award (2018) and the Sky Sports News Shorthand Award (2020).
Charlie has successfully challenged numerous reporting restrictions in court. Notable cases include:
Solicitors Regulation Authority Limited v George Fahim Sa’id [2024] EWHC 1619 (Admin) at [4], [12], [33]-[34], [40] - read the High Court case here and the SDT case here.
Robin Simon Graham Makin v Ministry of Justice [2023] EWHC 1920 (KB) at [35] and [38] - read more here.
R v Louise Caplan, Aylesbury Crown Court, October 8th 2021 - read more here.
R v Shammi Akter, Aylesbury Crown Court, February 5th 2021 - read more here.
R v Kyrese Cashley, Reading Crown Court, September 16th 2020 - read more here.
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charlie@charliemoloney.com / +447901850319
