Lawyer in the NewsWho? Martin Kramer, head of the media and Internet litigation group at 61-partner City firm Theodore Goddard.Why is he in the news? Acted for the Sunday Times in its successfulapplication to publish extracts from the memoirs of Richard Tomlinson, the ex-MI6 officer whose book - The Big Breach: From Top Secret to Maximum Security - the government claimed contains material damaging to national security.

The paper argued that as the book was already published in Russia, the information was in the public domain, and the injunction preventing publication in this country should be lifted.Background: Qualified at Theodore Goddard in 1969, and - barring a spell working for a law firm in Sydney in the 1970s - has been there since.

Made partner in 1978.

For ten years he was a general litigator before concentrating on media-related work for organisations such as Times Newspapers.Route to the case: 'Theodore Goddard has acted for the Sunday Times since the 1960s, and I've been involved with them since the 1970s.

This case first came to me in 1996, when an injunction was served against the Sunday Times preventing them from publishing extracts.'Thoughts on the case: 'This is not necessarily a landmark decision, but it is a timely reminder of the principles set out in the Spycatcher case in the late 1980s - that once certain confidential information is in the public domain, it loses the quality of confidence.

This book is available in Russia, it is available to buy through Web sites such as Amazon, and so anyone who wants to get hold of the information will have done so by now.

The information contained in it may or may not be damaging, I really don't know, but it's so widely available now that any damage has already been done - the government's energies would be better directed at trying to keep information secret which is truly damaging to the national security.'Dealing with the media: 'I've acted for media organisations for many years now - including some tabloids such as Today and the Mirror - so I've picked up an idea of how to best deal with them.

Surprisingly, I haven't had a huge amount of media interest regarding this case.'Victoria MacCallum