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Mueen-Uddin v SSHD
Libel – Hunter abuse – Jameel abuse – Rule in Dingle
Cooper v Evans & anor
Electoral law - s.106 injunction - false statements of fact - personal character or political
Wright v McCormack (CA)
Libel – Reduction of general damages for litigation misconduct
McGee v Lewis
Libel – Harassment – Privacy – Judgment in Default – Injunctive relief
Chishti v Spottiswoode & Ors
Defamation – preliminary issue – single meaning –- context – hyperlink – Chase levels
Soriano v Le Point & Anor
Libel - Specific disclosure - Subscriber data
Smith v Backhouse
Enforceability and acceptance of undertakings - Settlement
Rebekah Vardy v Coleen Rooney
Libel – Defence under s.2 of the Defamation Act 2013
Soriano v Le Point & Anor
Libel – summary judgment – strike out – serious harm
(1) Dr Fatima Jabbar (2) DRJ55 Limited v AVIVA Insurance UK and others (No 1)
Libel – summary judgment – absolute privilege – experts – CPR Part 35
BW Legal Services Limited v Glassdoor Inc
Norwich Pharmacal relief - Allegedly defamatory posts - Whether a declaration should be made that the court had no jurisdiction to try the claim because no valid service had been effected - Whether a declaration should be made that the court should not exercise its jurisdiction because of an exclusive jurisdiction clause in the Defendant's Terms of Use and/or because it was contended that the Claimant obtained an Order improperly or unfairly
Vardy v Rooney
Joinder – Disclosure – Amendments – Further Information
Soriano v Forensic News LLC & ors
Libel – Jurisdiction – Service Out – s.9 Defamation Act 2013 – Malicious Falsehood – s.3 Defamation Act 1952 – Loutchansky Malice – data protection – GDPR – Data Protection Act 2018 – UKGDPR – territorial applicability
Mahmudov & Mahmudova v Goni Sanzberro & ors
Libel – Jurisdiction – Brussels Recast Regulation – Centre of Interests
Abdulrazaq v Hassan & Ors
Libel - Publication of reasons for exclusion of individuals from mosque - Qualified privilege - Duty/interest - Reply to attack - Malice - Summary judgment
Wright v McCormack
Defamation – libel – amendment – serious harm – Dingle – Burstein
Farhan Junejo v New Vision TV Limited
Preliminary issue – whether publication occurred within jurisdiction – litigation bias – delay in issuing – destruction of records
Ashley v Times Newspapers Limited
Defamation - Libel - Trial of Preliminary Issues - Meaning - Defamatory imputation - Statement of fact / expression of opinion - Whether the repetition rule is engaged - Multiple publications
Blackledge v Persons Unknown
Defamation – Libel – Harassment – Data Protection – Quantum – Damages – Injunction – Section 13 order
Greenstein v Campaign Against Antisemitism
Defamation - Libel - Malice- Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 - Spent Convictions - Whether the malice plea relating to spent convictions was correctly struck out
Rebekah Vardy v Coleen Rooney
Libel – summary judgment – strike out – social media – proportionality
Hodges v Naish
Slander - preliminary issues - publication - defamatory meaning - slanders actionable per se - serious harm - limitation
Lachaux v Independent Print Ltd
Libel - publication on matter of public interest - s.4, Defamation Act 2013 - damages
(1) Allen (2) Wood v (1) Panorama Limited (2) Olivero
Defamation claims in Gibraltar – right to trial by jury – application of Defamation Act 2013 to Gibraltar - jurisdiction
Corbyn v Millett
Preliminary issue – whether statement fact or opinion – bare comment – whether statement defamatory at common law
Soriano v Silverstein
Libel – section 9 Defamation Act 2013 – jurisdiction – service out – forum conveniens – service gateways – centre of interests
Lady Colin Campbell v MGN Ltd
Defamation - Meaning - Ambiguity - Extraneous Evidence - General Knowledge
Sahota v Middlesex Broadcasting Corporation Ltd & Ors
Defamatory meaning - Foreign language television broadcast - Whether defamatory - Whether fact or opinion
Parris v Ajayi & Ors
Libel - Malicious Falsehood - Strike out - Amendments - Henderson v Henderson abuse of process - Consent to disciplinary procedure within employment context - Friend v Civil Aviation Authority- Claim for losses flowing from dismissal - Jurisdiction of Employment Tribunal - Johnson exclusion area - Johnson v Unisys Ltd - Jameel abuse of process - Failure to provide reference
Duchess of Sussex v Associated Newspapers Ltd
Misuse of private information-breach of copyright-summary judgment and/or strike out of defence
Tinkler v Ferguson & others
Malicious Falsehood – Abuse of Process – Section 3 Defamation Act 1952
Wright v Granath (CA)
Defamation – Jurisdiction – Lis Pendens – Lugano Convention – Negative Declaratory Relief
Soriano v Forensic News & ors
Libel - section 9 Defamation Act 2013 - jurisdiction - service-out - forum conveniens - malicious falsehood - GDPR - data protection - establishment - extra-territoriality - service gateways - centre of interests
Napag Trading Ltd & Ors v GEDI Gruppo Editoriale S.p.A & Anor
Defamation – Libel – CPR Part 11 – Jurisdiction – Serious Harm – s.1, Defamation Act 2013 – Reference – Publication
Greenstein v Campaign against Antisemitism
Defamation - Libel - s3, Defamation Act 2013 - Honest Opinion - Malice - Truth - Spent Convictions - Whether the Defendant should be granted summary judgment - Whether the malice plea should be struck out -
Data Protection - Misuse of Private Information - Spent Convictions- Abuse of Process
Depp v News Group Newspapers
libel – Defence under s.2 of the Defamation Act 2013
Tinkler v Ferguson & Ors
Malicious Falsehood – Strike Out – Abuse of Process – Damage – Jameel abuse
CWD v Nevitt & Ors
Privacy - defamation - anonymity - r16 order - reporting restrictions - s11 Contempt of Court Act 1981
(1) Greensill Capital (UK) Limited (2) Alexander Greensill v Reuters News And Media Limited
Defamation - Meaning - Preliminary Issue - Hearing Bundle
Anna Turley v Unite the Union and Stephen Walker
Libel – Trial – Liability for publication – Serious harm – Truth – Public interest – Assessment of damages – CPR Part 36
Chandler v O’Connor
Libel – Twitter – Summary Relief – Defamation Act 1996 – Assessment of Damages
EuroEco Fuels (Poland) Ltd & Ors v Szczecin and Swinoujscie Seaports Authority SA & Ors
Tort - Defamation - Libel - Jurisdiction - Regulation (EU) No 1215/2012 ("Brussels Recast Regulation") - Arts 7(2) & 30 - related actions - declining jurisdiction - stay of proceedings - Shevill
Sadik v Sadik
Defamation - Libel - Strike out - Summary judgment - s.9, Defamation Act 2013 - CPR r.11 - Jurisdiction - Domicile - s.1, Defamation Act 2013 - Serious harm to reputation - Jameel abuse of process
Simon v Lyder
Defamation - Libel - Appeal from Court of Appeal of the Republic of Trinidad and Tobago - Reliance upon subsequent facts - The extent which, if at all, two or more different statements made upon different occasions by the same defendant may be aggregated for the purpose of giving rise to a cause of action in defamation
Lachaux v Independent Print Ltd
Defamation – serious harm to reputation under s.1, Defamation Act 2013 – construction – accrual of cause of action – role of meaning of words – role of inference in determination of issue of serious harm – applicability of repetition rule and rule in Dingle v Associated Newspapers to determination of issue of serious harm
Spicer v Commissioner of Police of the Metropolis
Defamation - meaning - preliminary issue trial - bane and antidote
Butt v Secretary of State for the Home Department
Defamation – meaning – honest opinion
Alsaifi v Secretary of State for Education
Defamation - Spokesperson's quote in newspaper article - Meaning - Principles governing quoted source liability - Serious Harm - Effect of Prior Court Judgment on reputational harm - Qualified Privilege - Press Releases
Serafin v Malkiewicz
Libel – public interest – truth – damages – unfair judicial treatment
Greenstein v Campaign against Antisemitism
Defamation - Meaning - Expressions of Opinion or Statements of Fact - Preliminary Issue Trial - Antisemitism allegations
Nugent v Willers
Defamation - Limitation - Discretionary exclusion of time limit for actions for defamation or malicious falsehood - s.30A of the Limitation Act 1984 (Isle of Man) - s.32A Limitation Act 1980 (England & Wales)
Carruthers v Associated Newspapers Limited, Carruthers v News Group Newspapers Limited
Defamation – Meaning – Honest Opinion – Summary Judgment
Wafic Rida Saïd v (1) Groupe L’Express (2) Guillaume Dubois
Defamation – Jurisdiction – Serious Harm – Jameel Abuse – Online Publication - Injunction - Centre of Interests
Zahir Monir v Steve Wood
Libel – Social Media – Twitter – Meaning – Reference – Agency – Vicarious Liability – Serious Harm – Damages
Poulter v Times Newspapers Limited
Defamation - Libel - Meaning - Trial of Preliminary Issue on meaning
Kenny v Commissioners for Her Majesty’s Revenue & Customs & Another
Slander - Strike out - Summary Judgment - s.1 Defamation Act 2013 - serious harm - abuse of process (Jameel)
Morgan v Associated Newspapers Ltd
Defamation – strike out – amendment – summary judgment – pleading – honest opinion – section 3 Defamation Act 2013
Sube v News Group Newspapers Ltd & Express Newspapers (No 2)
Defamation - Defamation Act 2013, s. 1 - Serious Harm - Whether Serious Harm Requirement Can Be Met By Taking Indivual Less Serious Imputations Together Cummulatively
Sube v News Group Newspapers Ltd & Express Newspapers
Defamation - Meaning - Preliminary Issue - Serious Harm - s.1 Defamation Act 2013 - Data Protection Act 1998 - Equality Act 2010 - Harassment - Striking Out - Amendment
Stocker v Stocker
Libel – social media – meaning – justification – publication
LJY v Persons Unknown
Privacy - libel - harassment - injunction - blackmail
Brown v Bower & Another
Defamation
Butt v Secretary of State for the Home Department
Defamation - meaning - honest opinion
Lachaux v Independent Print Ltd (Serious harm)
On appeal from the decision of Warby J [2016] QB 402; [2015] EWHC 2242 (QB): what was the proper approach to determining whether a statement satisfied the 'serious harm' test in section 1(1) of the Defamation Act 2013?
Libel - Serious Harm - Rule in Dingle - Presumption of Harm - Limitation - Defamation Act 2013
Lachaux v Independent Print Ltd (Privilege)
On appeal from a decision of Sir Michael Tugendhat [2015] EWHC 3677 (QB): whether the judge erred in granting the Claimant an injunction in respect of material said to be both confidential and covered by Legal Professional Privilege.
Chang Wa Shan v Esther Chan Pui Kwan
Defamation - malicious falsehood - slander - absolute privilege - civil proceedings - informant - damages - causation - remoteness - Hong Kong
Mionis v Democratic Press SA and others
Appeal - Defamation - Article 10 of the European Convention - Section 12, Human Rights Act 1998 - Settlement - Whether Judge below was correct to have refused application to lift a stay in the proceedings imposed by a Tomlin Order
Howell v South London Church Fund and Southwark Diocesan Board of Finance
Application for pre-action disclosure and interim injunction in libel claim
Nick Brown v (1) Tom Bower & (2) Faber & Faber Limited
Defamation - libel - serious harm - trial of preliminary issue
Ahmed v (1) Express Newspapers (2) Associated Newspapers Ltd
Defamation - s.1 Defamation Act 2013 - serious harm - Jameel grounds - Strike Out CPR 3.4(2) - Summary Judgment CPR 24
Mohamed Ali Harrath v (1) Stand for Peace Limited & (2) Samuel Westrop
Libel - Defamation - Damages
Lisle-Mainwaring v Associated Newspapers Ltd & Anor
Defamation – offer of amends – s3(5) defamation act 1996 – Burstein mitigation – s12 Defamation Act 1952 – special damages - removal of republication
Barron v Collins
Defamation – slander - libel - offer of amends – s3(5) Defamation Act 1996 – political libels – aggravating conduct during the offer of amends procedure
Flymenow Limited v Quick Air Jet Charter GmbH
Defamation – Meaning – Justification – Qualified Privilege – Abuse of Process - Damages
(1) Khaled Undre (2) Down to Earth (London) Ltd v London Borough of Harrow (No.2)
Defamation - Offer of Amends - Serious Harm - Burstein Mitigation - Damages
Begg v BBC
Libel – Justification – Meaning - Broadcasting – Islam – Extremism
Richardson v (1) Trinity Mirror (Merseyside) Ltd (2) Neil Docking
Libel – report of court proceedings - qualified privilege – rehabilitation of offenders – privacy – negligence - harassment
Alexander Economou v David de Freitas
Libel - newspapers, radio, television - identification - responsibility for publication - meaning - serious harm - publication on matter of public interest - Defamation Act 2013 sections 1 and 4
Mohamed Ali Harrath v (1) Stand for Peace Ltd (2) Samuel Westrop
Libel - Defamation Act 2013 - serious harm - mitigation of damage - pleading
Anglia Research Ltd v Finders Genealogists Ltd
Pre-action disclosure - defamation - harassment - Norwich Pharmacal - serious harm
Hiranandani-Vandrevala v Times Newspapers Limited
Defamation, Meaning, Repetition Rule, Levels of Meaning, Preliminary Issue
Abdel-Bari v Nottingham University NHS Trust
Defamation - Libel - Malicious Falsehood - Data Protection Act 1998 - whether to disapply limitation period for claims in libel and malicious falsehood - whether to allow permission to amend to include claim under Data Protection Act 1998
Alvaro Sobrinho v Impresa Publishing SA
Libel – Portuguese Newspaper and Website – Preliminary Issues – Defamatory Meaning – Serious Harm, Defamation Act 2013 s1 – Abuse of Process
Niall Horan v Express Newspapers
libel - meaning - capability - CPR Part 53 PD 4.1(1)
Mir Shakil-Ur-Rahman v ARY Network Limited & Fayaz Ghafoor
Defamation – Trial of preliminary issues – Meaning – Fact or opinion - Chase levels - TV broadcasts – Foreign language (Urdu)
Weston v Bates & Leeds United Football Club
Libel – delay – abuse of process – appeal – striking out – civil procedure
Richardson v Facebook; Richardson v Google (UK) Ltd
Defamation – privacy – identity of defendant - definition of publisher – liability of ISPs
Pinard-Byrne v Linton
Privy Council Appeal from Court of Appeal of the Eastern Caribbean Supreme Court (Commonwealth of Dominica) - Defamation - Libel - Reynolds qualified privilege/ public interest defence - Whether the Court of Appeal was wrong to have overturned the first instance judge's rejection of the defence
Lachaux v Independent Print Ltd, Evening Standard Ltd, AOL (UK) Ltd
Libel – Serious Harm – Section 1, Defamation Act 2013 – the rule in Dingle – evidence – reference – meaning – Jameel abuse – preliminary issues
Sloutsker v Romanova
Defamation - Assessment of damages for publications online - whether to grant an injunction against a defendant overseas- whether to proceed in the defendant's absence- whether the court needed to rule on meaning where default judgment had been entered
His Highness Prince Moulay Hicham Ben Abdullah Al Alaoui of Morocco v Elaph Publishing Limited
Defamation - Data Protection - inaccuracy - permission to amend
Associated Newspapers v Murray
Libel
Lachaux v AOL UK
Libel – Defamation Act 2013 – serious harm – trial of preliminary issue – meaning – evidence – costs budgeting – proportionality
Rufus v Elliott (preliminary issue)
Defamation - Libel - Meaning - Trial - Preliminary Issue
Cruddas v Calvert (CA)
Defamation - libel - justification - malicious falsehood - malice - single meaning rule - damages
Lachaux v Independent Print Ltd
Libel – Trial of a Preliminary Issue on Meaning – Repetition Rule – pleadings – meanings – truth – Lucas-Box meanings – Polly-Peck
Sloutsker v Romanova
Defamation - libel - foreign claimant - foreign defendant - service out of the jurisdiction - whether material non disclosure - whether real and substantial tort within jurisdiction of England and Wales - whether England is the proper forum - likelihood of serious harm - service of English proceedings in Russian Federation - whether valid service effected under Hague Convention - CPR 6.40(3)
Rufus v Elliott (CA)
Defamation – Libel – Meaning – Capability
Ames & anor v The Spamhaus Project Ltd & anor
Libel - serious harm - Jameel abuse - US publication - foreign claimants - real and substantial tort
Mionis v Democratic Press SA
Defamation - Libel - Foreign Parties - Settlement of Action by way of Tomlin Order - Whether contractual undertakings restricting freedom of expression had been breached - Whether contractual undertakings restricting freedom of expression should be coverted into an injunction - Whether an inquiry as to damages should be ordered - Applications for Derogations from Open Justice - Hearing in Private- Restrictions on Access to Papers
HRH Prince Al-Waleed v Forbes
Libel – trial of preliminary issues – meaning – serious harm (common law threshold)
Bewry v Reed Elsevier UK Ltd (CA)
Defamation - Libel - Internet publication - Limitation period - Disapplication - s.32A Limitation Act 1980 - Jameel abuse
Donovan v Gibbons
Ruling on meaning and comment
Jose Antonio Serrano Garcia v Associated Newspapers Limited
Libel- Defamation- Trial- Justification- Honest comment- Damages- Aggravated damages
Yeo MP v Times Newspapers Ltd
Libel - jury trial - s11 Defamation Act 2013 - s69(3) Senior Courts Act 1981 - discretion - meaning - relief from sanctions
Cooke v MGN Ltd
Defamation - serious harm threshold - section 1(1) Defamation Act 2013 -evidence of serious harm - effect of apology
Hegglin v Persons Unknown
Libel - Data Protection Act 1998 - Norwich Pharmacal order - interim injunction - permission for service out of the jurisdiction
Crawford v Jenkins
Witness Immunity Rule; Harassment; Protection from Harassment Act 1997; Malicious Procurement of Arrest; Complaint to the Police; Whether complaint is immune from suit; Whether the immunity that covers defamation also covers torts of false imprisonment, malicious procurement of arrest and harassment.
Building Register Ltd v Weston
Defamation - libel - res judicata - abuse of process - amendment to defence - justification - honest comment - case management conference
Hannon v News Group Newspapers Ltd
Striking out - cause of action - defamation - privacy
Thompson v James
Defamation - Libel- Appeal - Meaning - Whether Blog post bore meaning found by Judge - Whether Rules on Meaning needed to be amended for political speech- Article 10
Mughal v Telegraph Media Group Ltd
Defamation - meaning - political speech - ruling on meaning
(1) Contostavlos (2) Simpson v News Group Newspapers Ltd
Defamation- meaning- preliminary ruling
Weller v Associated Newspapers Limited
Misuse of private information- Data protection- Human rights- Photographs- Reasonable expectation of privacy- Children- Freedom of expression
Meadows Care v Lambert
Defamation - Slander -Meaning - Comment - Permission to re-amend
Murray v Associated Newspapers Ltd
Libel - Statement in open court - Unilateral statement - CPR PD 53 para 6.1
Uppal v Endemol UK Ltd
Defamation- meaning- ridicule
Johnston v League Publications Ltd
Defamation- Preliminary Ruling- Meaning- Innuendo
White v Express Newspapers (Costs)
libel - costs - meaning - costs of ruling on meaning
White v Express Newspapers (Meaning)
libel - meaning - Chase levels
McEvoy v Michael
Defamation- preliminary ruling- meaning- comment- publisher- political criticism- picture
Jerrard v Blyth & Ors
Defamation - Setting aside - Claim form not served - Proceedings in limbo - Costs - Indemnity basis
Makudi v Baron Triesman of Tottenham
defamation - parliamentary privilege - absolute privilege - Article 9 Bill of Rights 1689 - FA
Jackson v Universal Music Operations Ltd
Libel - Malicious falsehood - Responsibility for publication - Internet - YouTube - Defamatory meaning - Statement that copyright claim made
RBOS Shareholders Action Group Ltd v News Group Newspapers Ltd
Defamation - Meaning - Preliminary Ruling
Miller v Associated Newspapers Ltd (CA)
Defamation - Justification - Chase Level 2 - Conduct Rule
Reynolds v Bovey
Defamation - Internet - Strike Out - Publication - Pleadings - Litigants in Person
Flood v Times Newspapers Ltd (No.3)
Libel - Damages - Defendant's conduct - Deterrence - Vindication
Fox v Boulter (disclosure)
Libel - specific disclosure - non-party disclosure - CPR 31.12 - CPR 31.17
Ungvary v Hungary
Defamation - fact and comment - Article 8 - Article 10
Krause v Newsquest Media Group Ltd
court reports - absolute privilege - defamatory meaning - abuse of process - Gender Recognition Act 2004
Rufus v Elliott
Defamation - Libel – Meaning – Innuendo - Capability
Briggs v Jordan
Libel – meaning – natural and ordinary meaning – innuendo meaning – breach of confidence – misuse of private information – strike out – Jameel abuse
Karpov v Browder
Libel - strike out - Jameel abuse - forum - proof of loss - justification
Subotic v Knezevic
Defamation - Jurisdiction - Jameel abuse
Delfi AS v Estonia
Defamation - human rights - user-generated content - online publishers - user comments - freedom of expression - right to reputation
Cruddas v Calvert & Others (No.4)
Libel - Malicious Falsehood - subterfuge - covert recording - Press Complaints Commission Code of Conduct - Public Interest - Justification - s.5 Defamation Act 1952 - Malice - Intention to Injure - Falsity - s.3 Defamation Act 1952 - Damages - Aggravated Damages
Hunt v Times Newspapers Ltd (No. 5)
Libel - justification - Reynolds Privilege - s.5 Defamation Act 1952
Cruddas v Calvert & Others (No.3)
Libel - Malicious Falsehood - Trial Judge reversed by Court of Appeal in relation to pre-trial ruling - Recusal application - appearance of bias
Cruddas v Calvert & Others (No.2) (CA)
Libel - Malicious Falsehood - Single-meaning rule - Determination of meaning for purposes of libel and malicious falsehood claims - justification - striking out
Dar Al Arkan Real Estate Co v Al Refai
Defamation - Conspiracy - Joint Tortfeasorship - Summary judgment - Defamatory website - Liability for publication where defendant did not know precise words to be published
Euromoney Institutional Investor Plc v Aviation News Ltd
Libel – defamatory meaning – malicious falsehood – meaning in malicious falsehood - statements of opinion – Jameel abuse
Cruddas v Calvert & Others (No.2)
Libel - Malicious Falsehood - Single-meaning rule - Determination of meaning for purposes of libel and malicious falsehood claims - justification - striking out
Evidence - admissibility of evidence of the meaning understood by publishes in malicious falsehood actions.
Fox v Boulter
Defamation - Libel – Meaning – Innuendo - Trial of meaning as preliminary issue
The Lord McAlpine of West Green v Sally Bercow
Defamation - Meaning – Natural and Ordinary Meaning – Innuendo – Repetition Rule - Social Media
Cruddas v Calvert
Libel - Malicious Falsehood - Amendments to Particulars of Claim - Malice - Aggravated Damages - Jury Trial
Smith v Dha
Defamation - CPR 40.7 - Death of Claimant - Abatement of Action - Power to revive
Thompson v James and Carmarthenshire County Council
Libel – justification – honest comment – qualified privilege – malice - public authorities – Article 8 HRA – Derbyshire v Times Newspapers – Part 20 claim - damages
Waterson v Lloyd
Libel - honest comment - meaning - appeal
McCann v Bennett
Contempt - committal - undertakings - penalty
Tamiz v Google Inc
Defamation - liability of ISPs - Publisher - Defamation Act 1996 - Google Inc
Al Amoudi v Kifle
Libel - assessment of damages
Cruddas v Adams
Defamation - Libel - Assessment of Damages - Twitter - Blog - s.12 Defamation Act 1952
Henry v News Group Newspapers Ltd (Costs) (CA)
Summary costs – defamation – costs budgeting – Defamation Proceedings Costs Management Scheme – Practice Direction PD51D – ‘good reason’
KC v MGN Ltd (Costs)
Defamation - Offer of Amends - Costs
Hussein & Ors v Hamilton Franks & Co Ltd & Anr
Defamation - default judgment - meaning - injunction - damages
Miller v Associated Newspapers Ltd
Defamation - libel - justification - cronyism - willing beneficiary - Chase level 2 meaning - reasonable grounds to suspect - what has to be proved - whether proof made out - abuse of process - disproportionate cost - damages
Cammish v Hughes (CA)
Libel – meaning – fact or comment – honest comment and single meaning rule - Jameel abuse – costs as a condition of dismissal
Andrew James Enforcement Ltd v ITV PLC
Libel - defamatory meaning - capability
Mengi v Hermitage (No 2)
Libel - internet blog - justification - reply to attack qualified privilege
Ansari v Knowles
Defamation – joint tortfeasors – settlement with one joint tortfeasor – release of cause of action – satisfaction – Jameel abuse
Cairns v Modi; KC v MGN Ltd
Defamation - Appeal - Damages
Qadir v Associated Newspapers Ltd
Defamation - qualified privilege - s 15 Defamation Act 1996 - Schedule to 1996 Act - document on public register - Particulars of Claim - extract - fair and accurate - of public concern - publication for public benefit - malice - recklessness - indifference - common law qualified privilege - court reporting - contemporaneous - s14 Defamation Act 1996 - absolute privilege
Mengi v Hermitage (security for costs appeal)
Defamation - Libel - Security for costs - Costs Budgeting – Conditional Fee Agreement
Crow v Johnson
Defamation - meaning - capability - strike out - CPR 3.4
Tilbrook v Parr
Tilbrook- Parr- defamation- malicious falsehood- whether words capable of referring to Claimant- strike out –summary judgment
Tilbrook v Parr
Defamation - Reference
El Naschie v Macmillan Publishers Ltd
Libel claim based on a news article in Nature magazine
Bento v Chief Constable of Bedfordshire Police
Bento- Chief Constable of Bedfordshire Police- CPS- murder- press release- defamation- justification- qualified privilege- informing the public- reply to attack- trial- damages award
Mark Lewis v Commissioner of Police for the Metropolis
Libel - Mode of Trial - judge or jury - public authority - phone hacking
Henry v News Group Newspapers Ltd (costs)
Summary costs – defamation – costs budgeting – Defamation Proceedings Costs Management Scheme – Practice Direction PD51D – ‘good reason’
King v Grundon
Libel - strike out - Jameel abuse
Hunt v Times Newspapers Ltd (No. 2)
David Hunt- Times Newspapers Limited- TNL- defamation- Reynolds privilege- justification- strike out application- Flood v Times Newspapers Ltd [2012] UKSC 11
Cammish v Hughes
Libel - meaning - strike out - Jameel - Thornton
Foley & Others v Lord Ashcroft
Defamation - libel - The Independent - allegations of involvement in corruption - pleading - justification - honest comment - defences struck out - application for permission to amend by adding back both defences - application dismissed - appeals - threshold requirements for pleading - clarity - precision of indictment - pleading fraud - appeals dismissed
Church v MGN Limited
Defamation - libel - ruling on meaning - procedure - application for ruling without a hearing - direction for hearing - open justice - costs
Cairns v Modi No 2
Defamation - justification - guilt - reasonable grounds to suspect - aggravated damages
Flood v Times Newspapers Limited (SC)
Libel - Reynolds privilege - Public interest - Responsible journalism
Weston v Bates
Libel - service of claim form - service abroad - service of original or copy
KC v MGN
Defamation - offer of amends - damages
Spelman v Express Newspapers (No. 2)
Injunction - Privacy - Public Interest - Bonnard v Perryman - Minors - Article 8 - Article 10
Spelman v Express Newspapers (No.1)
Injunction - Privacy - Public Interest - Bonnard v Perryman - Anonymity of Parties - Minors - Article 8 - Article 10 - Preservation of Anonymity pending appeal
Cambridge v Makin
Defamation - libel - qualified privilege - malice
Hunt v Times Newspapers Ltd
Defamation - strike out - CPR 3.4 - Justification - Reynolds privilege
Dell’Olio v Associated Newspapers Ltd
Libel - ruling on meaning - whether pleaded meaning possible - approach to question whether words can bear any other defamatory meaning - relevance of Pre-Action Protocol and letter of claim - pleaded meaning impossible - C identified no other meaning of which she might complain - action dismissed
Morrison v Buckinghamshire County Council
Libel – public authority defendant – qualified privilege for public authority – amendment – malice – summary judgment
Zinda v ARK Academies
Defamation - limitation - discretion to disappy limitation - qualified privilege - malice
Dominic Raab MP v Associated Newspapers Ltd
Libel - application for stay - strike out - abuse of process - overriding objective - Art 10 ECHR - ability to defend a claim - Dominic Raab MP - Associated Newspapers Ltd - employment dispute - settlement agreement - confidentiality clause
Terluk v Berezovsky (No.2)
Defamation -appeal- damages- meaning- liability for republication- privilege- justification – fresh evidence - jury trial
Waterson v Lloyd (No 2)
Amendment - part 24 - summary judgment - delay - justification
Cooper v Turrell
Libel - breach of confidence - misuse of private information - assessment of damages - injunctions
Waterson v Lloyd
summary judgment - part 24 - defamation - comment or fact - meaning - innuendo meaning - honest comment - newspapers - elections
McKeown v Attheraces Ltd (No 2)
Libel - jockey - broadcast interview - allegations of deliberate non-trying - permission to amend defence - adding Reynolds defence - other defences - reporting privilege - comment - justification - mode of trial - preliminary issue - C was a senior jockey who sued D for libel over a broadcast interview which he argued meant that he was a corrut jockey who had repeatedly, for corrupt reasons, stopped horses from winning. The defences were privilege, honest comment and justificaiton. The court held that the trial of the issues raised should be by Judge alone, but that all the issues should be tried together.
Davison v Habeeb & Ors
Defamation – Service out of jurisdiction - Internet blogs – Liability of blog hosting provider for publication at common law – Immunity under Reg. 19 Electronic Commerce (EC Directive) Regulations 2002
Miller v Associated Newspapers Limited (No 2)
Defamation - Libel - Trial of Preliminary Issue on Meaning - Whether words complained of are defamatory - The actual meaning of the words complained of
Tesla Motors Ltd v BBC
Malicious Falsehood - Particulars of Claim - Particulars of Damage - Defamation Act 1952 s. 3
Crookes v Newton
Defamation - Publication - Liability for Hyperlinks - Internet - Supreme Court of Canada
Sleeman v Panchaud
Defamation -- Injunctions - Without Notice Injunctions - Bonnard v Perryman - Practice & Procedure - s.110 Patents Act 1997 - Unauthorised Claim of Patent Rights
Al-Amoudi v Kifle
Libel - assessment of damages
Farid El Diwany v Ministry of Justice
immunity of states - defamation - Lugano convention 2007 - strike out - abuse of process - internet publication
Modi & IMG v Clarke
Appeal - Permission to Appeal - Defamation - Libel - Meaning - Whether the Judge was correct to rule that the words complained of were incapable of bearing any meaning defamatory of either Claimant
Lait v Evening Standard Ltd (CA)
Libel - MPs' expenses - Honest comment - Summary judgment - Justification - Jameel abuse - Summary judgment for D on honest comment - Residual claims dismissed as an abuse - Appeal - Single meaning rule - Alleged breach of rule by Judge - Single meaning rule applies to comment - Judge did not err - Jameel jurisdiction part of law's balancing of rights
Wright v Caan
Defamation - Libel - Meaning - Natural and ordinary meaning - Innuendo meaning - Whether words complained of capable of bearing meanings pleaded - Whether innuendo properly pleaded - Malicious falsehood - Whether words complained of capable of being likely to cause pecuniary damage - Whether claims in malicious falsehood properly pleaded - Application to amend particulars of claim
Thornton v Telegraph Group (No. 4)
Defamation - Malicious Falsehood - offer of amends - malice - knowledge - Defamation Act 1996
Ashcroft v Foley (No 2)
Libel - pleading - justification - honest comment - application for permission to amend - serious allegations - clarity - particularity - relevance - evidential sufficiency - test for pleading justification of serious allegations
Commissioner of Police of the Metropolis v Times Newspapers Ltd
Third party disclosure - breach of confidence - injunction - freedom of expression - fair trial
Caplin v Associated Newspapers Ltd
Defamation - Meaning - Capability - Bane and antidote - CPR PD 53 4.1
Cook v Telegraph Media Group Limited (No 3)
Libel - honest comment - trial of preliminary issues - malice
Modi v Clarke; IMG v Clarke
Defamation - Libel - Costs - Defamation Proceedings Costs Management Scheme - Practice Direction 51D - Whether it is necessary or appropriate under the Scheme to refer a Master or Judge to settlement offers
Bacon v Automattic Inc
Libel - Disclosure - Norwich Pharmacal - Foreign Websites - Respondents outside jurisdiction - Permission to serve application outside jurisdiction - alternative service of Claim Form by e-mail - Jurisdiction to order
Henry v News Group Newspapers Ltd (No 3)
Defamation - aggravated damages - malice - disclosure - case management
Awdry Bailey and Douglas v Kordowski
Libel - strike out - summary judgment - publisher - section 1 Defamation Act 1996 - qualified privilege - abuse of process - amendments - online publication
White v Southampton University Hospitals NHS Trust
Libel - strike out - summary judgment - absolute privilege - qualified privilege - communications to professional bodies - General Medicial Council - use of material disclosed in the course of proceedings
Lewis v Commissioner of Police for the Metropolis
Defamation - Libel - Mode of trial - Senior Courts Act s.69 - Meaning - Amendment - Qualified privilege - Malice - Abuse
Cook v Telegraph Media Group Ltd
Defamation - Part 24 - Justification - Honest comment - Reynolds privilege - Mode of trial
Bowker v RSPB
Defamation – Libel - Defamatory meaning - Mode of trial – Summary judgment - Qualified privilege – Malice – Scientific issues
Baturina v Times Newspapers Ltd (CA)
Defamation – Innuendo meanings – Strict liability – Requirement to plead publishees with knowledge of relevant facts – Liability for third party re-publications - Foreseeability of damage – Jameel abuse of process
Henry v News Group Newspapers Ltd (No 2)
Libel – Non-party disclosure – CPR 31.17 - Public interest as a ground for resisting disclosure
Hunt v Evening Standard Ltd
Libel - Strike out - Justification - Relevance of particulars of justification - Evidence of general bad character - Admissibility - CPR r.3.4(2)
Ashcroft v Foley
Defamation - Libel - Justification - Fair comment - Honest comment - Reynolds Privilege - Strike out
Defamation - Libel - Further information - Whether corporate defendant could be ordered to provide information about its means and ability to pay a costs order
Brady v Norman (No 2) (CA)
Defamation - limitation - section 32A of the Limitation Act 1980 - s.33 Limitation Act 1980
McKeown v Attheraces Ltd
Libel - jockey - disciplinary proceedings - findings of non-trying - appeal - unsuccessful judicial review - broadcast interview with jockey - defence of qualified privilege - defence of honest comment - applications by defendant - summary judgment - striking out - abuse of process - no real and substantial tort - re-litigation abuse - application dismissed
Thornton v Telegraph Media Group Ltd (No 3)
Defamation – Malicious falsehood – Amendment – Application to amend defence to malicious falsehood claim to plead honest comment – Whether amendment should be permitted
Wallis v Meredith
Libel - Abuse of process - Jameel - Publication only to Claimant's solicitor - Reliance on Defendant's refusal to specify further publishees as evidence of further publications
Woodbridge v Stapleton
Libel - Qualified privilege - Malice - Summary judgment - Strike out - Jameel v Dow Jones - Abuse of process - Proportionality
Henry v News Group Newspapers Ltd
Libel – Non-party disclosure – CPR 31.17
Jan Cambridge v Guillermo Makin
Libel - trial - judge alone - justification - qualified privilege - malice - joint tortfeasors - damages
Clift v Slough Borough Council (CA)
Defamation - Libel - Qualified privilege - Local Authority duties - Public Authorities - Anti-social behaviour - Violent Persons Register - Article 8 - Necessity and proportionality of publication - Human Rights Act 1998
Lait v Evening Standard Ltd (No 2)
Libel - Defamation - Honest comment - Abuse of process - Summary judgment - Meaning
Hayden & Anor v Charlton; Hayden & Anor v Carver
Libel - Striking out - Delay - Non compliance with court orders - CPR Rule 3.4(2)(c) - Litigants in Person - Article 10, ECHR
Spiller v Joseph
Defamation - Fair comment - Extent to which defence requires that the comment should identify the matter to which it relates
Terluk v Berezovsky (CA)
Defamation - Adjournment – Refusal of adjournment – Delay – Legal representation – Fair trial – Litigant in person - Right to jury trial - Waiver
Daniels v BBC
Defamation - Meaning - Summary judgment - Malice - Civil restraint order
Cairns v Modi
Libel – Publication – Twitter – Preliminary issue – Substantial tort – Abuse of process
Ernst & Young v Coomber
Defamation - Summary disposal - Damages - Civil Restraint Order
Ifedha v Archant Regional Ltd
Libel - Stay - Application to lift stay - Strike out - CPR r.3.4(2) - Reasonable grounds for bringing claim - Abuse of process - Summary judgment - Qualified privilege - s.15, Defamation Act 1996 - Report of council press release - Justification
McLaughlin v London Borough of Lambeth
Defamation – Human Rights Act 1998 – Arts 8 and 10 ECHR - Striking out – Rule in Derbyshire v Times Newspapers – collateral purpose – Jameel abuse of process
Ronaldo v Telegraph Media Limited
Defamation - Libel - Abuse of process - Whether action should be struck out in accordance with Jameel v Dow Jones - Section 12 Defamation Act 1952 - Actions against different publishers - Whether settlement with one makes it an abuse to continue against the other
Driza v Mirror Group Newspapers Ltd
Libel - privacy - limitation period - publication - abuse of process
Farrall v Kordowski
Libel - Interim injunction - Freedom of expression - s.12 Human Rights Act 1998 - Article 10, ECHR - 'Solicitors from Hell' website
Metropolitan International Schools Ltd v Designtechnica Corporation
Defamation - publication on the internet - damages
Islam Expo Ltd v The Spectator (1828) Ltd & Pollard
Defamation - Libel - Reference - Context - Hyperlinks - Whether, in context, words capable of referring to claimant in pleaded defamatory meaning
Peacock v MGN Ltd (Costs)
Defamation - Libel - Costs - Conditional fee agreement - Staged success fee - Whether amount of success fee sought reasonable - Proportionality - Whether overall fees claimed reasonable
Kaschke v Gray & Hilton (No 2)
Libel - Abuse of process - Strike out - Damages award out of proportion to time and costs
Flood v Times Newspapers Ltd (CA)
Libel - Reynolds privilege - Public interest - Responsible journalism - Continued internet publication following receipt of new information - Appellate jurisdiction
Henderson v The London Borough of Hackney & The Learning Trust
Libel - Qualified privilege - Meaning - Malice - Summary judgment - Strike out - Abuse of process - Section 5, Defamation Act 1952
Mariapori v Finland
Defamation - Freedom of expression - Article 10, ECHR
Fiddes v Channel Four Television Corporation & Ors (No 2) (CA)
Libel - Mode of trial - Jury or judge alone - Prolonged examination of documents - Convenience of trial with jury - Discretion - s.69 Senior Courts Act 1981
Khader v Aziz & Ors (CA)
Defamation – Slander - Strike out - Summary judgment - Abuse of process – Qualified privilege – Reply to attack -Skeleton argument
Thornton v Telegraph Media Group Ltd (No 2)
Defamation – Libel – Summary judgment - Determination of meaning – Whether words capable of bearing defamatory meaning – Threshold of seriousness
Brady v Norman (No 2)
Libel - Slander - Limitation period - Disapplication of limitation period - s.32A Limitation Act 1980 - Appeal
Hays Plc v Hartley
Defamation - Abuse of process - No real or substantial tort - Collateral purpose - Qualified privilege - Reynolds privilege
HH Sant Baba Jeet Singh Ji Maharaj v Eastern Media Group & Anor
Defamation - Libel - Justiciabillity of claim - Issues of religious doctrine - Regulation or governance of religious groups
Sanders v Percy & Ministry of Justice (No 2)
Defamation - Slander - Delay - Strike out - Unless order - Relief from sanction - CPR r.3.9
Mireskandari v Associated Newspapers Limited (No 3)
Defamation - Application for specific disclosure and/or further information to support allegation of judicial bias
Dee v Telegraph Media Group Ltd (No 2)
Libel - Summary judgment - Defamatory meaning - Whether articles in newspaper to be read together - Justification - Fair comment - Whether real prospect of rebutting defences
Bowman v MGN Ltd
Libel - Offer to make amends - Defamation Act 1996, ss.2 - 4 - Compensation - Costs - Rejection of settlement offers
British Chiropractic Association v Singh (CA)
Libel – Fair comment (‘honest opinion’) – Whether words fact or comment/opinion
Miller v Associated Newspapers Limited
Defamation - Libel - Defamatory meaning - CPR 53 PD 4.1 - Whether words complained of are capable of bearing the meanings pleaded in the Particulars of Claim - Whether words complained of are capable of bearing any meaning defamatory of the Claimant
Lait v Evening Standard Ltd
Libel - Meaning - Aggravated damages
Fiddes v Channel 4 Television Corporation & Ors (CA)
Defamation - Civil Evidence - Disclosure - Duty of Search - Electronic Documents - Deleted Emails - Restoration of Back up tapes - CPR Practice Direction 31
Bridle v Williams
Defamation - Slander - Strike out - Summary judgment - Qualified privilege - Malice - Abuse of process
Berezovsky v Russian State Television & Another (No 2)
Defamation - Libel – Liability for publication – Justification – Damages – Joint tortfeasors
Mireskandari v Associated Newspapers Ltd (No 2)
Media Law - Defamation - Libel - Disclosure - CPR 31.22 - Corrective witness statement to explain change of stance - CPR 18 - Appeal from decision of Master whether to Order the Claimant to produce the original of his United States Security Card
Fedchenko v Russia (No 2)
Defamation - Human rights - Article 10, European Convention on Human Rights
Kubaszewski v Poland
Defamation - Human Rights - Article 10, ECHR
Hughes v Risbridger & British Airways Plc
Libel - Qualified privilege - Malice - Summary judgment - Amendments
Williams v MGN Ltd
Libel - Abuse of process - Defamatory meaning - Limitation - Strike out - Real and substantial tort
Karsai v Hungary
Defamation - Human Rights - Article 10, ECHR - Comment
North London Central Mosque Trust v Policy Exchange & Anor
Libel - Unincorporated charitable trust - Strike out - Whether reputation of unincorporated charitable trust could be the subject of defamation claim
DW v The Scottish Ministers
Legal aid - Defamation - Scottish law - Availability of legal aid for claim - Civil Legal Aid for Defamation or Verbal Injury Proceedings (Scotland) Directions 2007 and 2008
Thornton v Telegraph Media Group Ltd
Defamation – Libel - Fair comment – Striking out - Words capable of being comment – Facts not truly stated by reviewer - s.6 Defamation Act 1952
Lonzim Plc & others v Sprague
Defamation - Slander - Libel - Publication - Extent of publication - Internet publication - Abuse of process - Striking out - Summary judgment - Foreign publisher - Aggravated damages - Striking out - No real damage - Vindication - Injunction - Proportionality
Ecclestone v Telegraph Media Group Ltd
Defamation - Libel - Meaning - CPR PD 53 para 4.1 - Whether words complained capable of being defamatory
Winslet v Associated Newspapers Ltd
Defamation - Libel - Offer of Amends - ss.2-4 Defamation Act 1996- Statement in open court - Unilateral statement in open court after offer of amends - CPR 53PD para 6.1
Karim v Newsquest Media Group
Libel - Absolute privilege - s.14 Defamation Act 1996 - Fair and accurate report of court proceedings - Regulation 19, E-commerce Regulations 2002 - User-generated content
Europapress Holding D.O.O v Croatia
Freedom of expression - Article 10 - Defamation - Whether interference "necessary in a democratic society" - Proportionality
Joseph & others v Spiller & another
Defamation - Fair comment - s.6 Defamation Act 1952 - Public interest - Words capable of being comment - Justification - Breach of contract - Employment Agencies & Employment Business Regulations 2003
Dee v Telegraph Media Group Ltd
Libel - Meaning - CPR Part 18
Ronaldo v Mirror Group Newsapers Ltd; Ronaldo v Telegraph Media Group Ltd
Defamation - Libel - Pre-Trial Review - Whether two actions for libel should be heard at the same time or separately
Kahangi & Ors v Nourizadeh
Defamation - security for costs - resident out of jurisdiction - enforcement - Iran - discretion
Bloom v Robinson-Millar
Defamation - Libel - Harassment - Trial of action - Neighbour dispute - Publication of letters over a long period - Whether course of conduct was harassment of claimant - Damages
RFS Capital LLC & RFS Capital BV v MD7 Europe & Michael Gianni
Slander - Malicious falsehood - Causing loss by unlawful means - Notice of discontinuance - Costs - Non-party liability for costs - s.51(3) Supreme Court Act 1981 - CPR 48.2
Flood v Times Newspapers Ltd
Defamation - Allegations published in print and on website - Reynolds privilege - Preliminary issue - Police officer - Allegation of corruption - Police investigation - Anonymous ources
Marathon Mutual Ltd & Anor v Waters & Anor
Defamation - Libel - Slander - Malicious falsehood - Whether the tort of malicious falsehood requires reference to the claimant in the words complained of - Whether pleadings needed to be amended
McLaughlin & Ors v Newall
Defamation – Striking out - Defence of compromise
Sanders v Percy & Ministry of Justice
Slander - Strike out - Slander actionable per se - Harrassment - Abuse of process - Jameel abuse
Metropolitan International Schools Ltd v (1) Designtechnica Corporation (2) Google UK Ltd & (3) Google Inc
Defamation - Internet - s.1 Defamation Act 1996 - E-commerce Regulations 2002 - Innocent dissemination at common law - Abuse of process - CPR r.11 - Service out of the jurisdiction
Desmond v Bower (CA)
Defamation - Libel -Justification - Similar fact evidence - Admissibility to prove specific charge
Clift v Slough Borough Council & Kelleher
Defamation - Libel - Qualified privilege - Malice - Local Authority duties - Anti-social behaviour - Violent Persons Register - Necessity and proportionality of publication - Human Rights Act 1998
Levi v Bates
Defamation - Libel - Meaning - Qualified privilege - Justification - Fair Comment - Damages
Johnson v MGN Ltd
Libel - Meaning - Innuendo - CPR 53, PD 4.1 - Whether words capable of bearing pleaded defamatory meanings
Bray v Deutsche Bank AG (No 2)
Libel - Part 24 - Publication - Successive Part 24 applications - Malice - qualified privilege - preliminary issues
Monks v Warwick District Council
Defamation – Libel – Strike out - Meaning - Malice – Damages claim – General loss of custom and business – Amendments – Special damages - Exemplary damages - CPR r.3.1 – Summary judgment – Whether real prospect of success – CPR Part 24.2
Karako v Hungary
Defamation - Libel - Criminal proceedings - Right to respect for private life - Article 8, European Convention on Human Rights - Freedom of expression - Article 10, European Convention on Human Rights - Political campaign - Value judgments
Peacock v MGN Ltd
Defamation – Libel – Costs capping order – Conditional fee agreement – After the event insurance – New costs capping rules - Whether a costs cap should be ordered
Noorani v Calver (No 2 Costs)
Defamation - Libel - Discontinuance - Indemnity costs - Payment on account - Conditional fee agreements
Noorani v Calver (No 1)
Defamation - Slander - Vulgar abuse - Actionability per se - Abuse of process - Real and substantial tort
Times Newspapers Ltd (Nos 1 and 2) v The United Kingdom
Freedom of expression - Article 10 ECHR - Libel - Internet publication - Archives - Qualified privilege - Reynolds privilege - Freedom of expression - Article 10 ECHR - Single publication rule - Internet publication rule
Flood v Times Newspapers Ltd (Third Party Disclosure)
Defamation - Libel - Third-party Disclosure Order - CPR Part 31.17 - Classes of document - Likely to support a party's case - Confidentiality/privacy interests of third parties mentioned in the documents - Necessity for disclosure order - Discretion
Radu v Houston & Another (No.4)
Libel - Justification - Pleading of a Chase level 2 defence - Striking out
Eerikäinen & Ors v Finland
Freedom of Expression - Privacy – European Convention for the Protection of Human Rights and Fundamental Freedoms 1950 Article 10 – Freedom of the press - Reporting on pending criminal proceedings – Photos - Public interest
Wall Street Journal Europe Sprl v UK (Admissibility)
Human rights - Admissibility - Freedom of expression - Article 10, European Convention on Human Rights - Fair trial - Article 6, European Convention on Human Rights - Defamation - Reynolds privilege - Jury directions - Presumption of falsity - Meaning
Haji-Ioannou v (1) Dixon (2) Regus Group PLC (3) Regan
Defamation - Libel - Slander - Application to strike out - Abuse of process
Wakefield v Ford & Anor
Defamation - Libel - Contract - Malice - Costs - Discontinuance by Claimant - Whether Claimant could accept an 'offer' made by Defendant in without prejudice save as to costs correspondence - Indemnity costs - Payment on account of costs
R (On the application of Taranissi) v HFEA
Access to court documents - Non-party - CPR 5.4(2) - Judicial review
Mardas v New York Times; Mardas v International Herald Tribune
Defamation - Libel - Abuse of process - Internet publication - Forum non conveniens - Prior publication of defamatory allegations
John v Guardian News & Media Ltd
Defamation – Libel – Meaning – Ruling on meaning – Whether words capable of bearing contended meaning – Comment
Crossley & Crossley v Newsquest (Midlands South) Limited
Libel – Privacy - Summary judgment – Absolute privilege – Qualified privilege – Fair comment – Malice – Abuse of process - Newspaper article reporting neighbours’ dispute
Tycon Energy Corp v The Motley Fool Limited
Defamation - Libel - Internet postings - Norwich Pharmacal order - Anonymous representations by posters - Costs
Tiscali UK Ltd v British Telecommunications Plc
Libel - Meaning - Innuendo - Whether words capable of bearing defamatory meanings
Briscoe Mitchell v Hodder & Stoughton Ltd & Anr, Associated Newspapers Limited (non-party)
Defamation action – Witness summons – Non-party disclosure – CPR 31.17
Clarke t/a Elumina Iberica UK v Bain & Prolink Holdings Corp
Defamation - Libel - Jurisdiction - Foreign publication - Aggravated damages - Striking out - Case management - Proportionality
Mireskandari v Associated Newspapers Ltd
Defamation - Extension of Time for Service of a Defence - Solicitors duty to make own investigation of facts independent of their client
H v Tomlinson
Privacy - Human Rights Act claim for an Article 8 right to reputation - Defamation - Justification - Common sting
Hayter v Fahie
Defamation - Libel - Qualified privilege - Malice - Summary judgment
Club La Costa (UK) PLC v (1) Toby Gebhard (2) Inventory Solutions (UK) Limited
Defamation - offer of amends - s. 2 Defamation Act 1996 - qualified privilege
Hughes v Alan Dick & Co Ltd
Defamation - Slander - Absolute privilege - Qualified privilege - Malice - Default judgment - Setting aside - CPR r.13.3(1)
Hussein v Farooq & Sheik
Defamation - Slander - Adequacy of evidence - Proof of oral publication - Slander actionable without proof of special damage
Brady v Norman
Defamation - Libel - Qualified privilege - Defamatory meaning - Internet publication - Trade journal
Apsion v The Bar Standards Board
Appeal from the Disciplinary Tribunal of the Council of the Inns of Court - Whether Tribunal had been correct to conclude that the appellant did not have sufficient competence or expertise to advise in a defamation claim - Whether the charges infringed the Appellant's Art 10 rights
Crossley & Anor v Wallace & Anor
Defamation - libel - abuse of process - no reasonable basis for bringing a claim - review of Master's decision under CPR 3.4(2)(a) and (b) - ruling on meaning
Gentoo Group Ltd (formerly Sunderland Housing Co Ltd) v Hanratty
Defamation - Libel - Harassment - Mode of trial - Judge and jury - Prolonged examination of documents - s.69 Supreme Court Act 1981
Berezovsky v Russian State Television & Another
Defamation - Libel - Foreign broadcaster - Jurisdiction - Fair trial - Defence not justiciable - Anonymity of sources - s.10 Contempt of Court Act 1981
Tesco Stores Ltd v Guardian News & Media Ltd and Rusbridger
Defamation – Libel – Malicious falsehood - Offer of amends – Stay – Burstein plea - Amendments
Smith v ADVFN Plc & Ors (No 2)
Defamation - Libel - Stay - Postings on internet bulletin board - Whether to be treated as libels or slanders
Applause Store Productions Ltd & Firsht v Raphael
Libel - Privacy - Internet publication - Social networking website - Quantum
Ewing v News International & Ors
Vexatious litigant - Leave to bring proceedings - Media organisations - Defamation - Libel - Harassment - Privacy - Chilling effect - Disproportionality
Warren v The Random House Group Ltd (Nos.1-3) (CA)
Defamation – Libel – Offer of Amends – Defamation Act 1996 – Justification – Articles 6 & 10 ECHR - Burstein particulars – Aggravated damages – Disclosure – Lucas Box meaning - Polly Peck – Severable and distinct charges
Radu v Houston & Another (No.3) (CA)
Defamation - Libel - Reynolds privilege - Public interest - Obtaining comment - Gist of claimant's position
Westcott v Westcott (CA)
Defamation - Libel - Slander - Defences - Absolute privilege - Whether complaints to police are covered by absolute or qualified privilege - Preliminary issue
Mond & Ors v Mason & Ors
Libel - Malicious falsehood - Causing loss by unlawful means - Freezing order - Good arguable case - Real risk of removal or disposal of assets - Injunction restraining publication
Kieren Fallon v MGN Limited (No 3)
Justification of Level 2 Meaning - Reasonable Grounds to suspect the Claimant of complicity in race-fixing - Whether adverse expert evidence on manner of Claimant's race riding is essential to the viability of the Defence
Bray v Deutsche Bank AG
Defamation - Libel - Qualified privilege - Malice - Anonymity of witnesses
Alitha Publishing Ltd & Constantinides v Cyprus
Defamation - Article 10 - Reynolds privilege - Responsible journalism - Justification - Fair comment - Qualified privilege - Burdens of proof - Article 8
Atlantis World Group of Companies NV & Another v Gruppo Editoriale L’Espresso SpA
Libel - foreign magazine - English publication - small circulation - foreign claimant - corporate claims - proof of reputation - reference - "Jameel" abuse of process
Curistan v Times Newspapers Ltd (CA)
Defamation - Libel - Meaning - Qualified privilege - Repetition rule - Single-meaning rule - Preliminary issue
Gur v Avrupa Newspaper Ltd & Anor (CA)
Defamation - Libel - Damages - Article 6, ECHR - Reference to personal injury awards
Seray-Wurie v Charity Commission of England and Wales
Defamation - Striking out - Summary judgment - Qualified privilege - Malice
Smith v ADVFN Plc (CA)
Defamation - Norwich Pharmacal disclosure – Defamatory material on bulletin board
Gentoo Group Ltd (formerly Sunderland Housing Co Ltd) v Hanratty
Libel - Disapplication of limitation period - s.32A, Limitation Act 1980 - Discretion - Abuse of process
Kulis v Poland
Human rights - Freedom of expression - Article 10, European Convention on Human Rights - Defamation - Publication of interview - Politician - Matter of public interest - Fact/value judgment dichotomy
Sharma v Singh & Associated Newspapers (No. 2)
Anonymity of witnesses - Allegations of sexual harassment - CPR 39.2(4) - Libel trial
Rath v Guardian News & Media Limited & Anor
Libel - Striking out - Summary judgment - Defence - Justification - Severable and distinct allegation - Fair comment - Error in facts stated - s.6 Defamation Act 1952 - Damages - Reliance on other articles publishing similar allegations
W v JH & A County Council Limited
Libel – Summary judgment – Qualified privilege – ‘Off the peg’ privilege – Lapse of time - Data Protection Act 1998 - Criminal Justice Act 2003
Adelson v Associated Newspapers Ltd (No 3)
Libel - Stay - Striking out - Open offer to settle - Abuse of process - Proportionality - Damages - Vindication - Statement in open court - Costs
Freer v Zeb & Ors
Defamation - Slander - Publication - Summary Judgment - Abuse of process - Vicarious liability - Civil restraint orders
Ivereigh v Associated Newspapers Ltd
Witness anonymity - inherent jurisdiction - CPR 39.2(4) - interests of witness and her children - private and family life - open justice - balancing - intense focus - order granted
Jeynes v News Magazines Limited & Anor
Libel – Defamatory meaning - Whether words complained of capable of bearing pleaded meaning
Seaga v Harper
Defamation - Slander - Defences - Qualified privilege - Reynolds privilege - Statement by politician - Application of Reynolds privilege to non-media publication
Trumm v Norman
Defamation - Libel – Qualified privilege – Meaning – Damages –Assessment of damages
Akinleye v East Sussex Hospitals NHS Trust
Summary judgment - Part 24 - Defamation - Qualified privilege - Malice - Dominant motive - No honest belief in truth - Evidence of malice
Condé Nast Publications Ltd & Anor v UK
Human rights - Right to fair trial - Right to freedom of expression - Arts 6, 10, 18, ECHR - Civil procedure - Video conference link - Defamation - Claimant in libel proceedings giving evidence by video conference link
Blackwell v Bates & Ors
Libel - Defences - Qualified privilege - Reply to attack - Fair Comment - Meaning - Malice
Warren v The Random House Group Ltd (No.3)
Defamation - Libel - Defences - Justification - Lucas-Box meaning - Whether Lucas-Box meaning severable and distinct from meaning complained of - Whether proportionate to allow issues raised by Lucas-Box meaning to be tried
Adelson v Associated Newspapers Ltd (No. 2)
Libel - Amendment - Adding parties - Disapplication of limitation period - Corporate libel claims - Discretion
Malik v Newspost Ltd & Ors
Defamation - Libel - Defences - Reynolds privilege- Public interest - Responsible journalism - Letter to editor - Whether letter writer could rely on Reynolds privilege
Sharma v Singh & Associated Newspapers Ltd
Defamation - Libel - Defences - Justification - Lucas-Box meaning - Legitimate scope of plea of justification to a level 1 meaning - Repetition rule
Harassment - Whether conduct constituted harassment - Protection from Harassment Act 1997
Warren v The Random House Group Ltd
Defamation - Libel - Offer of amends - Justification - Amendment - Discretion - Article 6 ECHR - Article 10 ECHR
Warren v The Random House Group Ltd (No.2)
Defamation - Libel - Burstein particulars - Amendment - Aggravated damages - Offer of amends
Radu v Houston & Another (No.3)
Defamation - Libel - Trial of a preliminary issue - Whether article protected by qualified privilege - Reportage - Reynolds privilege - Common interest privilege
Pfeifer v Austria
Article 8 - Right to private life - Right to reputation - Article 10 - Freedom of expression - Defamation - Libel - Political criticism - Value judgments
Ghannouchi v Al Arabiya News Channel FZ-LLC
Libel - Assessment of damages - Judge alone - Aggravation of damages
Lepojic v Serbia
Human rights - Freedom of expression - Art 10, ECHR - Necessary in a democratic society - Protection of the reputation of others - Defamation - Criminal defamation - Statements on matter of public interest - Political discussion
Chemodurov v Russia
Article 10 - Freedom of expression - Defamation - Political criticism - Value judgments - Whether 'necessary in a democratic society'
Westcott v Westcott
Defamation - Libel - Slander - Defences - Absolute privilege - Complaints to police
Flux & Samson v Moldova
Human rights - Freedom of expression - Article 10, ECHR - Defamation - Value judgments - Requirement to prove truth - Balance - Public interest - Responsible journalism - Exaggeration and provocation - Dissemination of the statements of others
Lindon & Others v France
Human Rights - Freedom of expression - Art 10, ECHR - Privacy - Art 8, ECHR - Fair trial - Art 6, ECHR - Defamation - Libel - Proportionality of damages and penalties - Value judgments and facts - Republication in the media
Sheffield Wednesday FC & ors v Hargreaves
Defamation - Libel - Norwich Pharmacal relief - Anonymous website postings
Radu v Houston & Another (No.2)
Defamation - Libel - Mode of Trial - s.69 Supreme Court Act 1981 - Role of Jury - Trial of a Preliminary Issue - Qualified Privilege - Responsible Journalism - Reportage - Duty/ Interest
Charman v Orion Publishing Group & others (No.3) (CA)
Defamation - Libel - Qualified Privilege - Responsible journalism and authorship- Fair and accurate court reports - Reportage- Whether book protected by qualified privilege at common law
Grovit v De Nederlandsche Bank & Ors
Defamation - Conflict of laws - Jurisdiction - Scope of Council Regulation (EC) No 44/2001, art 1(1) - Claimant suing in place where harmful event occurred - Libel claim over letter sent by bank in Netherlands - Bank's reliance on state immunity - Whether claim "civil … matter"
Roberts & Another v Gable & others (CA)
Defamation - Libel - Qualified privilege - Reynolds privilege - Dispute between members of political party - Allegations of commission of criminal offences - Reportage
McBride v Body Shop International plc
Libel - Summary judgment - Abuse of process - Use of documents obtained in the course of disclosure
Adelson v Associated Newspapers Ltd (CA)
Defamation – Limitation – Substitution of parties – Addition of parties - Mistake - s.35 Limitation Act 1980 – CPR 17.4 and 19.5(3)
Flux v Moldova (No 2)
Right to fair trial - Art 6, ECHR - Right to freedom of expression - Art 10, ECHR - Libel - Judicial impartiality - Sufficiency of reasons
Jones v Associated Newspapers Limited
Libel - Costs - Claimant's Part 36 offer - CPR 36.14 - CFAs
Burstein v Associated Newspapers Ltd
Defamation - Libel - Meaning - Fair Comment - Striking Out - Summary Judgment - CPR Part 24
Boehringer Ingelheim Ltd & Others v Vetplus Ltd (CA)
Prior restraint – Interim Injunctions – Human Rights Act section 12(3) – European Convention on Human Rights Article 10 – Comparative Advertising – Libel – Malicious Falsehood – Trade Marks
Flux v Moldova (No.3)
Libel - Accuracy - Public Interest - Article 10
Drury v Carnegie (CA)
Libel - Claim form – Service – r.7.6(3)(b) Civil Procedure Rules – Extensions of time
Buckley v Dalziel
Defamation - Absolute privilege - Qualified privilege - Witness statement provided to police officer - Limitation - s.32A Limitation Act 1980
Adelson v Associated Newspapers Ltd
Defamation – Limitation – Substitution of parties – Addition of parties - Mistake - s.35 Limitation Act 1980 – Civil Procedure Rules 1998
Boehringer Ingelheim Ltd & Others v Vetplus Ltd (ChD)
Prior restraint – Interim Injunctions – Human Rights Act section 12(3) – European Convention on Human Rights Article 10 – Comparative Advertising – Libel – Malicious Falsehood – Trade Marks
Curistan v Times Newspapers Ltd
Defamation - Libel - Meaning - Qualified Privilege - Preliminary Issue
Davies v WM Morrison Supermarkets plc
Defamation - Qualified privilege - Malice - Evidence of malice - Strike out - Fresh evidence - Adjournment - Appropriateness of striking out
Purnell v F1 Business Magazine Ltd & Another
Defamation - Justification defence struck out - Jury to determine quantum of damages - Effect of the prior reasoned judgment re the strike out on vindicatory element of the jury award
Edwards v Golding & Others (CA)
Defamation – Libel - Limitation – Accrual of cause of action - Addition of parties - s.32A Limitation Act 1980 - CPR 19.5 - CPR 3.1(7)
Nikowitz & Verlagsgruppe News GmbH v Austria
Human rights - Freedom of expression - Article 10, European Convention on Human Rights - Necessary in a democratic society - Relevant and sufficient reasons for interference - Defamation - Satirical commentary - Statement that views not in fact expressed
Moore v Scottish Daily Record
Scotland - Defamation - Offer of amends - rejection - late acceptance - statutory construction - costs
Wakefield v Channel Four Television & Others (No.3)
Defamation - Libel - Disclosure - Inspection - Documents obtained by GMC in course of inquiry - s.35A Medical Act 1983 - Restriction on collateral use
High Tech International AG & Others v Deripaska
Defamation - Jurisdiction - Judgments Regulations - Domicile
Tierney v News Group Newspapers Ltd (No.2) (Costs)
Defamation - Libel - Appeal - Costs capping orders - Conditional Fee Agreements - Level of costs cap - Expenditure within a costs cap - Recoverability of a QC's fees
Turkot & Global GOLD Holding v Oxus Gold & Trew
Libel - Trial of preliminary issues - Whether suitable for trial by judge alone - s.69(4) Supreme Court Act - Whether appropriate to order in the claim
Karman v Russia
Defamation - Libel - Article 10 ECHR - Politicians - Value judgments - Whether interference with Article 10 necessary in a democratic society
Verlagsgruppe News GmbH v Austria
Defamation - Neutral Reportage - Adoption - Comment - Article 10 - Freedom of Expression
SD Marine Ltd v Powell
Defamation - Libel - Offer of amends - Offer and acceptance - Whether offer of amends validly made and accepted - s.2 Defamation Act 1996
Radu v Houston & Another (CA)
Security for costs - Stay - Failure to comply with unless orders - Summary judgment
Barrett v Rosenthal
Libel – Liability of Website Providers - Immunity under US law
Jameel & Another v Wall Street Journal Europe (No.2) (HL)
Defamation - Libel – Reynolds qualified privilege - Presumption of damage - Corporate claimants
Zakharov v Russia
Human Rights - Defamation - Article 10 ECHR - Criticism of public officials - Private correspondence - Statements of fact - Value judgments
Australian Broadcasting Corporation v O’Neill
Defamation – Injunctive relief – Plea of justification – Restraint on publication
White v Sweden
Human rights - Right to protection of reputation - Article 8 - Freedom of expression - Article 10 - Defamation - Criminal defamation - Gross defamation - Allegation of murder - Allegation not proven but held 'justifiable' to print on 'reasonable basis'
Al-Koronky v Time-Life Entertainment Group Ltd & Another (CA)
Libel - Security for costs - Claimants resident in the Sudan - Enforcement of costs - CPR Part 25.12 - CFAs - After the event insurance (ATE) - Discretion - Appeals - Stifling - Fresh evidence - Comity
McKenna v MGN Ltd
Libel - Meaning - Justification - Substantial truth - Allegation of fraudulently boasting of bogus PhD obtained merely for money - Damages - Assessment of damages
Sunderland Housing Company & another v Baines & others
Defamation- Libel - Harassment - Data protection - Injunctive relief - Responsibility for website - Whether injunctive relief should be granted - John Doe order
Charman v Orion Publishing Group & others (No.3)
Defamation - Libel - Reynolds privilege - Responsible journalism - Fair and accurate reports - Reportage - Whether book protected by qualified privilege
Veliu v Mazrekaj
Defamation - Offer of Amends - Amount of compensation payable - limited publication
Armstrong v Times Newspapers Ltd & Others (No.3) (QB)
Defamation - Libel - Meaning - Preliminary Issue
Merelie v Newcastle Primary Health Care Trust & Others (No.3)
Libel - meaning - malice - justification -Protection from Harassment Act 1997 - Breach of Contract - Personal Injury
Armstrong v Times Newspapers Ltd & Others (No.2) (CA)
Defamation - Libel - Meaning - Preliminary Issue - Mode of Trial - s.69(1) Supreme Court Act 1981 - prolonged investigation of documents - s.69(3) - discretion - s.69(4) - trials of separate issues
Cox v MGN Ltd (Costs)
Costs - Privacy - Data protection - Appeal - Proportionality - Conditional fee agreement - Success fee - Appropriate hourly fee - Entitlement to claim for increases in hourly rates
Loughton Contracts Plc v Dun & Bradstreet Ltd
Defamation - Libel - Offer of amends - Summary judgment - Further information - Whether Claimant had accepted offer of amends - Whether Claimant entitled to further information as to the identity of publishees
Mahfouz and another v Brisard & another
Defamation - Libel - ss8-10 Defamation Act 1996 - Whether Claimants entitled to summary disposal - Whether Claimants entitled to all remedies sought under summary disposal procedure - Declaration of falsity rejected
Baker v Maynard
Libel - Internet publication - Qualified privilege - Common interest - Whether Defendant in existing relationship with members of closed website or an officious bystander - Whether Defendant could rely on fair comment defence solely in mitigation of damages
Al Amoudi v Brisard & Another
Defamation - Libel - Publication on the Internet - Whether Claimant is entitled to presumption of law that substantial publication has taken place
Turner v News Group Newspapers Ltd (CA)
Defamation - Libel - Offer of amends - Assessment of compensation under s.3(5) Defamation Act 1996 - Burstein plea - 'Directly relevant background context' - Mitigation of damages
Roberts & Another v Gable & others (QBD)
Defamation - Libel - Qualified privilege - Reynolds privilege - Dispute between members of political party - Allegations of commission of criminal offences - Reportage
Campbell v Safra
Defamation - Responsibility for publication - Inducing breach of contract - Elements of cause of action - Summary judgment
Brasilier v France
Human rights - Freedom of expression - Article 10 ECHR - Defamation - Election candidates in dispute - Allegations of ballot rigging, fraud and theft - One French franc in damages awarded - Importance of open political debate - Basis in truth - Sanction disproportionate
Fallon v MGN Ltd (No.2)
Libel - Meaning - Justification of Chase Level 2 and 3 Meanings - Seriousness of allegations - Adequacy of particulars
Angel v Stainton & Another
Defamation - Libel - Offer of Amends - Compensation
Purnell v Business F1 Magazine Ltd & Another
Libel - Allegation of bribery - Justification - Summary judgment - CPR Part 24
Bunt v Tilley & Others
Libel - Internet Service Providers - Liability at common law - Electronic Commerce (EC Directive) Regulations 2002 - s.1 Defamation Act 1996 - Abuse of process
Henry v BBC (No.3)
Defamation - Libel - Meaning - Justification - Substantial Justification - s.5 Defamation Act 1952
Radu v Houston & Another
Security for costs - non-Brussels Convention national - Romania - adjournment - equality of arms - effect of judgment having been entered against a claimant by the time of the appeal
Lowe v Associated Newspapers Ltd
Defamation - Libel - Fair Comment - Meaning - Requirements as to facts relied upon as supporting comment - Knowledge of relevant facts at the time of publication
Moss v Channel Five Broadcasting Ltd
Defamation - Libel - Meaning - General/Specific Charge - Justification
Tierney v News Group Newspapers Ltd
Defamation - Libel - Cost-capping orders - Conditional Fee Agreements - After-the-event insurance policies - CPR Rule 3.1 - CPR Part 26 Practice Direction
Galloway v Telegraph Group Ltd (CA)
Libel – Qualified privilege – Reynolds privilege – Reportage – Adoption – Public interest – Fair comment on privileged report – Damages
Hussein v William Hill
Defamation - Libel - Slander - Abuse of process - Issue estoppel - Attempt to reopen matters decided by court of competent jurisdiction
Albert-Engelmann-Gesellschaft mbH v Austria
Human rights - Freedom of expression - Article 10 ECHR - Defamation - Statement of fact/value judgment - Factual basis - Letter - Author unidentifiable - Publisher not distancing itself from statements
Wirtschafts-Trend Zeitschriften-Verlagsgesellschaft v Austria (No.3)
Human rights - Freedom of expression - Art 10, ECHR - Defamation - Meaning - Criminal offence - Public interest/public figure - Photograph - Injunction
Armstrong v Times Newspapers Ltd & Others (No.2)
Defamation - Libel - Meaning - Preliminary Issue - Mode of Trial - s.69(1) Supreme Court Act 1981 - prolonged investigation of documents - s.69(3) - discretion - s.69(4) - trials of separate issues
Ascension Securities Limited v The Motley Fool Limited
Defamation - Libel - Injunction - Costs
Henry v BBC (No.2)
Defamation - Libel - Qualified privilege - s.15 Defamation Act 1996 - Reynolds privilege - Reply to attack
Musa King v Telegraph Group Ltd (Costs)
Costs - Detailed assessment - Defamation - Proportionality - Conditional Fee Agreements - Success fees
Rodrigues v Portugal
Human rights - Freedom of expression - Art 10, ECHR - - Newspaper publication - Criticism of public appointment - Rival paper criticising article - Defamation - Libel - Whether sanctions necessary
Henry v BBC
Defamation - Libel - Cost-capping orders - Conditional Fee Agreements - After-the-event insurance policies - CPR Rule 3.1 - CPR Part 26 Practice Direction
Johnson v Perot Systems Europe Ltd & Another
Defamation - Breach of contract - Negligent misstatement - Summary Judgment - CPR Part 24 - Abuse of process - Fraud and dishonesty - Judicial impartiality - Justification - Qualified privilege
Culnane v Morris & Another
Defamation - Libel - Human Rights - Political Speech -Preliminary Issue - Qualified Privilege - Election communications - s.10 Defamation Act 1952 - s.3 Human Rights Act 1998
Ratiu & Others v Conway (CA)
Defamation - Malicious falsehood - Justification - Malice - Misdirection - Withdrawing malice from jury - Damages - Fiduciary duty - Breach of confidence
Cray v Hancock & Another
Libel - Publication - Justification - Harassment - Protection from Harassment Act 1997 - Damages - Injunction - Negligence - Breach of Duty - Solicitor
Wakefield v Channel Four Television & Others
Defamation - Libel - Stay of proceedings - concurrent GMC disciplinary proceedings - concurrent libel proceedings - Article 6 - Right to trial within a reasonable time
Wirtschafts-Trend Zeitschriften-Verlags GmbH v Austria
Human rights - Freedom of expression - Art 10, ECHR - Defamation - Value judgment - Sufficient factual basis - Politician - Proportionality
Beckham & Another v News Group Newspapers Ltd
Libel - Specific Disclosure - CPR Part 31.12 - Correct Test to be Applied
Campbell v MGN Ltd (Costs) HL
Costs - Conditional Fee Agreements - Success Fee - Article 10 - Access to Justice - Article 6 - Proportionality - Cost-capping
Charman v Orion Publishing Group & others (No.2)
Defamation - Libel - Meaning - Trial of a Preliminary Issue on Meaning - the natural and ordinary meaning of the words complained of
Savitchi v Moldova
Human rights - Freedom of expression - Art 10, ECHR - Defamation - Libel - Freedom of the press - Reporting statements of others - Duty to prove - Necessary in a democratic society
Panday v Gordon
Defamation - Slander - Qualified privilege - Malice - Constitutional guarantee of freedom of expression - Level of damages
Mahfouz and another v Brisard and another
Defamation - Libel - Publication - Preliminary Issue - Whether the First Defendant was responsible in law for the publication of a translation of a Book written by him for sale in the United States
Bangoura v Washington Post & Others
Libel - Internet - Jurisdiction - Forum - Publication - Damage
Al-Koronky v Time-Life Entertainment Group Ltd & Another (QB)
Libel - Security for Costs - Claimants resident in the Sudan - Enforcement of costs - CPR Part 25.12 - CFAs - After the event insurance (ATE) - Discretion
Armstrong v Times Newspapers Ltd & Others (CA)
Libel - Justification - Reynolds - Striking Out - Summary Judgment - CPR Part 24
Georgallides v Etzin
Harassment - Protection from Harassment Act 1997 - interim injunction - whether application for injunction for harassment was an attempt to circumvent rule in Bonnard v Perryman - s.12 Human Rights Act 1998- articles 8 and 10 - width of injunction
Steinberg v Pritchard Englefield (No 2)
Adjournments - Defamation - Summary Judgment - Appeal -Absence of party at hearing - Publication - Website
Sofola v Lloyds TSB Bank plc
Defamation - Slander - Qualified privilege - ss.13 and 14 Data Protection Act 1998 - Civil Procedure - CPR Part 3.4 - CPR Part 24 - CPR Part 52(3)(6)
Charman v Orion Publishing Group & others
Defamation - Libel - Case Management Conference - Mode of Trial - Application for trial by Judge alone - s.69 Supreme Court Act 1981 - Application for meaning to be tried as a preliminary issue.
Independent News & Media v Ireland
Defamation - Libel - Damages - Ireland - Safeguards against disproportionately high jury awards at first instance and on appeal - Article 10
Jameel & Another v Times Newspapers Ltd (No.2)
Defamation - Libel - Statutory qualified privilege - Justification - Grounds to inquire - Case management - Striking out
McKeith v News Group Newspapers Ltd
Defamation - Libel - Meaning - Common sting - Justification - Reynolds privilege - Meaning - Justification - Striking out - Case management
Campbell-James v Guardian Media Group plc
Defamation - Libel - Offer of Amends - Assessment of Compensation under <A
href="http://www.bailii.org/uk/legis/num_act/da199699/s3.html"
target=_blank>s.3(5) Defamation Act 1996
Turner v News Group Newspapers Ltd & Another
Defamation - Libel - Offer of Amends - Assessment of Compensation under <A
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target=_blank>s.3(5) Defamation Act 1996 - 'Burstein' plea - Whether mitigation or aggravation
Turcu v News Group Newspapers Ltd (No.2)
Libel - Justification - Video evidence - Privilege against self-incrimination - CFAs
Creative Resins International Ltd v Glasslam Europe Ltd & Others
Defamation - Libel - Solicitors - Qualified Privilege - Protection of client's interests - Malice - Summary Judgment - CPR Part 24
Mahfouz & Ors v Ehrenfeld & Anor
Defamation - Libel - Judgment in default - Summary disposal - ss.8-10 Defamation Act 1996 - Remedies - Damages - Injunction - Declaration of falsity
Miller v Associated Newspapers Ltd (No.4)
Defamation - Libel - Claim dismissed following trial of the action - Defence of justification upheld - Whether costs should follow the event - Whether costs should be assessed on standard or indemnity basis - Whether interest should be awarded - Whether Claimant should have permission to appeal
Miller v Associated Newspapers Ltd (No.3)
Defamation - libel - justification – trial of the action - meaning- whether the plea of justification succeeded
Crossland v Wilkinson Hardware Stores Ltd
Defamation - Libel - Slander - Malicious Falsehood - Malice - Qualified Privilege - Harassment - Summary Judgment - Part 24
Turcu v News Group Newspapers Ltd
Defamation - abuse of process - lack of evidence from Claimant - CFA agreements - inference of desire for vindication - summary judgment - mode of trial
Matadeen v Associated Newspapers Ltd
Defamation - Libel - Costs capping - Conditional Fee Agreements
Milne v David Price Solicitors & Advocates
Costs - Defamation - Conditional Fee Agreements - Settlement on terms not amounting to 'win' - Termination - Entitlement of solicitor to basic charges
Steinberg v Pritchard Englefield & other
Defamation - Libel - Appeal - Summary disposal - Sections 8 to 10 Defamation Act 1996 - Website publication to the world at large - Whether claim could be an abuse of process - Jameel v Dow Jones
Collins Stewart Limited & Another v The Financial Times Ltd (No 2)
Defamation - libel - corporate claimant - aggravated damages - further articles repeating (in part) sting of original libel
Rackham v Sandy and Others
Defamation – Libel – Mode of trial – Prolonged examination of documents – s.69 Supreme Court Act 1981
Steel & Morris v United Kingdom
Libel - Unavailability of Legal Aid - Fair Trial - Corporations - Right to Sue - Burden of Proof - Damages - Article 6 - Article 10
Fallon v MGN Ltd
Libel - Stay of Proceedings - Criminal Inquiry
Polanski v Conde Nast Publications Ltd (HL)
Defamation - Libel - Human Rights - Civil procedure - Civil evidence - evidence by video link - hearsay
W v Westminster City Council (No.2)
Defamation - libel - qualified privilege - malice - Human Rights - Article 8 ECHR - s. 7 & s. 8 Human Rights Act 1998
Jameel & Another v Wall Street Journal Europe (No.2) (CA)
Defamation - Libel – Reynolds privilege – Relevance of Bonnick v Morris - Presumption of damage – Presumption of falsity
Jameel (Yousef) v Dow Jones & Co. Inc.
Defamation - libel – Internet publication - presumption of damage - identification of Claimant – no real and substantial tort/abuse of process
Miller v Associated Newspapers Ltd (No.2)
Defamation - libel - justification - permission to amend - whether words complained of were capable of Chase level 3 meaning - whether Defendant can rely on Claimant's non-disclosure of relevant documents and/or misrepresentation of their content - lies probative of guilt - admission by conduct
Busuioc v Moldova
Human Rights - Defamation - Libel - Article - ECHR - Freedom of Expression - Damages awarded against journalist for defamation - Whether interference with Art 10 right prescribed by law - Whether interference necessary in a democratic society
Hewitt & Others v Grunwald & Others
Defamation - Libel - Allegation of being a 'terrorist organisation' - Internet publication - Justification - Qualified privilege
Nail v News Group Newspapers Ltd & Others (CA)
Defamation - libel - offer of amends - damages - principles of assessment of compensation by judge under s.3(5) Defamation Act 1996 - extent to which the offer of amends mitigates damages
Armstrong v Times Newspapers Ltd & Others (QB)
Libel - Meaning - Reasonable Grounds to Suspect/Investigate - Justification - Qualified Privilege - Reynolds - Summary Judgment - CPR Part 24 - Striking Out CPR 3.4 - Costs - Security for Costs - Costs Capping Orders
Cumpana and Mazare v Romania
Human rights - Freedom of expression - Defamation - Criminal defamation - Sentence - Articles 8, 10 ECHR
Pedersen and Baadsgaard v Denmark (No.2)
Human Rights - Defamation - Libel - Article 10 - Freedom of Expression - Article 6 - TV Documentary about wrongful conviction - Journalists fined for defaming senior police officer - whether interference necessary in a democratic society
W v Westminster CC & Others
Defamation - libel - absolute privilege - qualified privilege - malice - s.7 Human Rights Act 1998
Wood v Chief Constable of West Midlands Police (CA)
Defamation - libel - qualified privilege - summary judgment - slander - amendment to add case in slander after the close of evidence at trial - s.32A Limitation Act 1980 - CPR 17.4
Galloway v Telegraph Group Ltd (QBD)
Libel – Qualified Privilege – Reynolds – Reportage – Adoption – Public Interest – Fair Comment on Privilege Report – Damages
Gazley v News Group Newspapers Ltd
Costs - Defamation - Instruction of Specialist Solicitors - Reasonableness - CPR 44.4(2)(b) - Appeal - Review - CPR Part 52.11
Selisto v Finland
Human rights - Freedom of expression - Criminal defamation - Prosecution of journalist - Article 10 ECHR - Whether necessary in a democratic society
Merelie v Newcastle Primary Health Care Trust & Others
Defamation - Summary Judgment - Strike Out - Pleading Requirements in Slander cases - Republication - Protection from Harassment Act 1997 - Malicious Falsehood - Human Rights Act 1998 - CPR Part 24 - CPR Part 3.4(2)
Greene v Associated Newspapers Ltd & Another
Defamation - Injunction - s.12 Human Rights Act 1998 - Likelihood of success - Threshold for grant of injunction - Bonnard v Perryman test
Richardson v Schwarzenegger & Others
Libel - Service out - CPR 6.20 - liability for republication - qualified privilege - reply to attack - agent and principal
Collins Stewart Ltd & Another v The Financial Times Ltd
Libel - Damages - Special damages - Strike out - Company - Measure of damages by reference to share price - Mode of trial - General damages
King v Lewis & Others (CA)
Libel - Internet - Publication - Jurisdiction - Whether England was the correct forum - CPR - Leave to Serve Claim Form out of jurisdiction
Sabou & Pircalab v Romania
Human Rights - Criminal Defamation - prosecution of journalists - whether prosecution and conviction were breaches of Articles 8,10 and 13 ECHR
Yazar and others v Turkey
Human Rights - Defamation - Libel - political speech - whether conviction was a breach of arts 6 or 10 ECHR - whether hearing took place before an independent and impartial tribunal
Jameel & Another v Times Newspapers Ltd (CA)
Defamation - Libel - Meaning of words complained of - Chase 'level 2' and 'level 3 meanings' - Pleadings - Whether article capable of being defamatory of corporate claimant
Jennings v Buchanan
Defamation - Libel - Absolute privilege - Parliamentary privilege - Whether statement made out of Parliament enjoying absolute or qualified privilege - Whether necessary to plead precise words used - Appeal from New Zealand Court of Appeal
Mahfouz v Brisard & Others
Defamation - Libel - Judgment in default - Remedies - Summary disposal - ss. 8-10 Defamation Act 1996
Chauvy & Ors v France
Human rights - Freedom of Expression - Defamation - Libel - French criminal and civil law - 'good faith' defence - Articles 8, 10 ECHR
Hamilton v Clifford
Defamation - Libel - Slander - Applications to strike out -Meaning - Justification - Fair comment - Reply to attack - Qualified privilege - Malice - Plea of general bad reputation
Hassan v Holburn and others
Defamation - Libel - permission to appeal - Limitation Act 1980 sections 4A, 32, 35 - publication - republication - costs
Milne v Express Newspapers (CA)
Defamation - Libel- Offer of Amends - s.4(3) Defamation Act 1996 - "knew or had reason to believe"
Pal v General Medical Council and others
Defamation - Libel - Data Protection Act 1998 - Human Rights Act 1998 - Article 8 - General Medical Council - Summary Judgment - CPR Part 24 - Costs
Musa King v Telegraph Group Ltd (CA)
Defamation- Libel - Justification - Conditional fee agreements - Proportionality - Costs capping
Tillery Valley Foods Ltd v Channel Four Television Corpn & Another
Confidential Information - Defamation - Injunction - Secret Footage - Employee- Duty of Confidentiality - Breach of Contract
Oliver v Chief Constable of Northumbria Police (No.2)
Defamation - Libel - Justification - Qualified Privilege - Malice
Maccaba v Lichtenstein (No 2 – mode of trial)
Defamation - Slander - Mode of Trial - Judge and Jury- Prolonged Examination of Documents - s.69 Supreme Court Act 1981
Radio France & Ors v France
Defamation - Libel - French law - Article 7 ECHR - Article 6 ECHR - Sanctions - Requirement to broadcast findings - Freedom of expression - Article 10 ECHR
Nail v News Group Newspapers Ltd & Others (QBD)
Defamation - Libel- offer of amends - assessment of damages
Meade v Pugh & Another
Defamation – Libel – Qualified Privilege – Malice – CPR Part 3.4(2) – Strike out – Summary judgment – CPR Part 24
Coys Limited v Autocherish Limited & others
Defamation - Libel - interim injunction - website publication - s.12(3) Human Rights Act 1998 - Rule in Bonnard v Perryman - test to be applied
Lennon v Scottish Daily Record & Sunday Mail
Defamation - Libel- jurisdiction - meaning
Howe & Co v Burden
Defamation- Slander- Summary judgment - Abuse of process -Qualified privilege -Malice- Consent
Sharma v Jay & Others (No.2)
Defamation - Slander - Stay of proceedings - concurrent GMC disciplinary proceedings
Phillipps v Associated Newspapers Ltd & Another
Defamation - Acceptance of Defendants' Part 36 Offer to Settle - Entitlement to Unilateral Statement in Open Court - Part 53 PD 6.1 - Costs
King v Lewis
Defamation - Libel - Civil procedure - Service out of the jurisdiction - Appropriate forum
Worme & Another v Commissioner of Police of Grenada
Human Rights - Criminal Libel - Public Figures - Public Interest - Freedom of Expression - Reputation - Intentional Libel - Defences - Qualified Privilege - ss.252, 253, 257 and 258 Criminal Code of Granada - s.10 Constitution of Granada
Jameel & Another v Wall Street Journal Europe
Defamation - Libel - Qualified Privilege - Reynolds defence
Wood v Chief Constable of West Midlands Police
Defamation - Libel - qualified privilege - summary judgment - privilege of a police officer to warn the clients of an unconvicted defendant not to trade with his business
Jameel & Another v Wall Street Journal Europe (CA)
Libel - meaning - preliminary ruling as to capable meanings - qualified privilege - admissibility of evidence bearing on truth of allegation complained of
Miller v Associated Newspapers Ltd
Defamation - Libel - Reynolds qualified privilege - application to strike out defence of privilege- alternatively for summary judgment - whether the law as to qualified privilege was in a state of flux
Polanski v Conde Nast Publications Ltd (CA)
Defamation - Libel - Civil procedure - Civil evidence - Human Rights - CPR - Video conference link
Jameel & Another v Times Newspapers Ltd
Defamation - Libel - Meaning of words complained of - Whether article capable of being defamatory of corporate claimant - Justification - Summary judgment
Oliver v Chief Constable of Northumbria Police
Defamation - Slander - Fair Comment - Qualified Privilege -summary judgment - Police
Pedder v News Group Newspapers Ltd
Defamation - Libel - Abuse of process - Human Rights -Whether an attempt to re-litigate issues already decided against Claimants in a similar action should be struck out as an abuse of the process - whether the Defendants could rely upon the Claimants being on a conditional fee agreement without ate insurance to justify striking out the claim
Downtex v Flatley
Defamation - Civil procedure - Summary disposal - Summary judgment - s8 Defamation Act 1996- Qualified Privilege - injunction
Vassiliev v Amazon.com Inc
Defamation - Civil procedure - Summary judgment - Abuse of process - Fair comment - Related proceedings - whether the issues were sufficiently similar
Powell v Boladz & others
Defamation - Libel - Delay - Striking out - Abuse of process - Human Rights - Articles 6, 8 & 10 European Convention on Human Rights
Blake v Associated Newspapers Limited
Defamation- Libel - Civil Procedure- Ecclesiastical- Human Rights- Arts 6, 10 - Stay of Proceedings- Justiciability - whether deference to religious doctrine outweighs right of access to the courts
Gray v Avadis
Defamation - Libel - Absolute privilege - Qualified Privilege - Striking Out - Summary Judgment - whether publications in and to the Office of Supervision of Solicitors were covered by absolute privilege
Oduro v Time Life
Defamation - Libel - Meanings - Strike out application - Abuse of process
Al Rajhi Banking & Investment Corporation v Wall Street Journal Europe (No.2)
Defamation - Libel - justification - sufficient grounds for investigation - reasonable grounds to suspect - allegations of involvement in terrorist funding
Greenaway and Williams v Poole
Defamation - Libel - Justification - Qualified Privilege - Malice - Elections - s.10 Defamation Act 1952 - Damages
Sheikha Mouza al Misnad v Azzaman Ltd & Others
Defamation - Libel - Summary disposal - CPR Part 24 - s.8 Defamation Act 1996 - Conflict of laws - Publication in multiple foreign jurisdictions - Reynolds privilege - Standards of responsible journalism
Gleaner Co v Abrahams
Defamation - Libel - Damages - Whether the award by the jury was excessive - Constitutional law - Human Rights- Freedom of expression - foreign jurisdictions - Jamaica
Milne v Express Newspapers (No.2)
Defamation - Libel - offer of amends - rejection of offer of amends - the correct test under s4(3) Defamation Act 1996
Reuben & Others v Time Inc & Another (No.2)
Defamation - Libel - Validity of service - Service out of jurisdiction - Forum conveniens - Amendment of claim form - Earlier publication - s.35(5)(a), Limitation Act 1980
Keays v Guardian Newspapers Ltd & Others
Defamation - Libel - Fair comment - Inferences as to state of mind - Whether allegation of fact or comment - CPR part 24
Stallwood & Stallwood v Smith
Defamation- Libel - Qualified Privilege- Summary Judgment-Part 24- Whether pre-action correspondence between a prospective litigant and a solicitor are protected by qualified privilege
Pedersen and Baadsgaard v Denmark
Human Rights - Defamation - Libel - Article 10 - Freedom of Expression - TV Documentary about wrongful conviction - Journalists fined for defaming senior police officer - whether interference necessary in a democratic society
Vassiliev v Frank Cass & Co Ltd
Defamation - Libel - Qualified privilege - Reply to attack - Friend of deceased victim - Original victim having no claim in libel - Common interest privilege - Publication in specialist journal - Publication on internet - Reynolds privilege
Al Rajhi Banking & Investment Corp v Wall Street Journal Europe
Defamation - Libel - amendment - justification - allegations of association with institutions or persons suspected of terrorism - whether such allegations breach established principles of law
Maris & Others v Walsh
Defamation - Libel - breach of confidence - threat to publish -interim injunction.
Musa King v Telegraph Group Ltd (QBD)
Defamation - libel - civil procedure - Conditional fee arrangements - Human Rights - Articles 6, 10 - justification - whether it was permissible to justify the meaning that the police suspected the claimant of involvement in terrorist offences
Webster v British Gas Services Ltd
Defamation - Libel - Slander - Qualified privilege - Malice - Malicious Falsehood - Summary judgment -Part 24
Harrods Ltd v Dow Jones & Co Inc
Defamation - libel - jurisdiction - whether the claimant could sue the defendant in this jurisidiction
Adams v Guardian Newspapers Ltd
Libel - Defamatory meaning - Parliamentary privilege - Fair comment - Veritas (justification) - Reynolds qualified privilege - whether a Reynolds qualified privilege defence is applicable in Scotland
Charterhouse Clinical Research Unit Ltd v Richmond Pharmacology Ltd
Defamation - Trade libel - Human rights - Freedom of expression - s.12(4) Human Rights Act 1998 - Art.10 European Convention on Human Rights
Sharma v Jay & Others
Defamation- Harassment- Protection from Harassment Act 1997- Malice- Slander- Application to strike out claim for harassment and plea of malice- CPR Part 3.4 and Part 24.2
Bennett & Another v BBC & Another
Defamation - libel - particulars of justification - whether the defendant could justify the common sting of the whole article when the Claimant only complained about parts of it
Kearns v General Council of the Bar
Defamation - Libel - Qualified privilege - Existing relationship - Summary judgment - CPR Part 24
ICN Photonics Ltd v Patterson
Defamation - Libel - Rulings on Meaning - Slander of Goods - Whether defamatory imputation carried about the manufacturer - Function of Appeal Court
Rigg v Associated Newspapers Ltd
Defamation - Libel - Offer of amends - s2 Defamation Act 1996 - Disclosure - Whether journalist's notes should be disclosed
Howlett v Holding and Holding & Barnes Plc
Defamation - Libel - Qualified privilege - Striking out - CPR 3.4(2) - Summary Judgment - CPR Part 24
Tanner v Filby and Howell
Defamation - Justification - Fair comment - Issue estoppel - Abuse of process - Fair Trial - Freedom of Expression - Human rights - Article 6 - Article 10 - European Convention on Human Rights
Halford v Chief Constable of Hampshire Constabulary & Another
Defamation - Libel - Qualified privilege - Malice - Withdrawal of malice from jury
Cleese v Clark & Associated Newspapers Limited
Defamation- Libel - Offer of Amends Procedure- Hearing to assess compensation- Section 3(5) Defamation Act 1996 - Damages.
Loutchansky v Times Newspapers Ltd and others (No. 8)
Defamation - Libel - application to amend Defence to plead justification after judgment entered
Gutnick v Dow Jones & Co Inc
Libel - Publication - Internet - Single publication rule - Appropriate forum
Chase v News Group Newspapers Ltd
Defamation - Libel - Human rights - Freedom of expression - Justification - Conduct rule - Repetition rule - Matters post-dating publication
Lakah Group and Lakah v Al Jazeera and Mansour (No 2)
Contempt of court - Committal - Foreign citizens - Non-resident parties
Milne v Express Newspapers (QBD)
Defamation - Offer of amends - s.4(3) Defamation Act 1996 - "knew or had reason to believe"
Times Newspapers Ltd v Burstein
Defamation - Libel - Costs - Conditional Fee Agreement - Indemnity principle - Preliminary issue - Order for cross-examination
Loutchansky v Times Newspapers Ltd and others (No. 7)
Defamation - Libel - Qualified privilege - Reconsideration of original decision on qualified privilege following the Court of Appeal's decision ([2002] QB 783)
Komarek v Ramco Energy Plc
Defamation - Libel - Conflict of laws - Legal professional privilege - Double actionability - Summary judgment - Qualified privilege - Malice
Clarke v Davey
Defamation - Slander - Strike out - CPR Part 24 - Abuse of process - Summary judgment - s.8 Defamation Act 1996 - Absolute privilege - Qualified privilege - Malice
Abu v MGN Ltd
Defamation - Libel - offer of amends- principles to be applied in assessing compensation under s3(5) of the Defamation Act 1996- damages
Grobbelaar v News Group Newspapers Ltd
Defamation - Libel - Review of jury verdict - Damages - Inherent power of House of Lords
Spencer v Sillitoe and International Computers Ltd
Defamation - Libel - Summary judgment - Disputed facts - Role of Jury - CPR Part 24 - s.69 Supreme Court Act 1981
Wilkey & Another v BBC
Civil procedure - Late service of claim form - Deemed date of service - Actual date of service - Dispensing with service under CPR Part 6.9 - Exceptional circumstances - Claimant at fault
Foster & Another v Associated Newspapers Limited
Defamation - Libel - meaning - justification - amendment - mode of trial - s.69 Supreme Court Act 1981 - adjournment of trial
Bataille v Newland & Ors
Defamation - Libel - Publication - Strike out - CPR Part 3.1 and 3.4 - No reasonable grounds for alleging publication - Summary Judgment under CRP Part 24.2 - no prospect of proving publication - Mini-trial.
Campbell v News Group Newspapers Ltd (No.2)
Defamation - Libel - quantum - justification - whether judge had misdirected jury - effect of attempt by claimant to pervert the course of justice - appeal allowed and damages reduced from £350,000 to £30,000
Lillie & Reed v Newcastle City Council & Others (No.2)
Defamation - Libel - Justification - Qualified privilege - Malice - Public authorities - Damages - Local Government (Access to Information) Act 1985.
Fayed v Telegraph Group Ltd
Defamation - Libel - meaning
MacIntyre v Phillips
Defamation - Libel - qualified privilege - similar fact evidence - preliminary issue - rule of practice that qualified privilege be tried first
Mawdsley v Guardian Newspapers Ltd
Defamation - Libel - Failure to mitigate - Summary disposal - s.8 Defamation Act 1996- damages
Wallis v Valentine
Defamation - Libel - Summary Judgment - Evidence of Publication - No prospect of Success - CPR Part 24 - Abuse of Process
Mills v MGN Ltd
Defamation - Libel - ruling on meaning - striking out - CPR Part 3.4(2) - exemplary damages
Gregson v Channel Four Television
Defamation - Libel - Mode of Trial - Prolonged Examination of documents - s.69 Supreme Court Act 1981
McManus v Beckham
Defamation - Slander - liability for republication - foreseeability - special damage
Bonnick v Morris
Defamation - Libel- qualified privilege to the world at large- meaning- whether single meaning rule applied applicable in determining whether Reynolds privilege available - whether article met standard of responsible journalism
Mark v Associated Newspapers Limited
Defamation - Libel - Meaning - Repetition rule - Bane and antidote - Whether repetition rule consistent with ECHR Article 10 jurisprudence - Interface between defences of justification and Reynolds privilege
Cook & Carlton Communications Ltd v News Group Newspapers Ltd (No.2)
Defamation - Libel - Justification - Amendment - Principles governing late application to amend to add extensive particulars of justification - Overriding Objective.
Hamilton v Al Fayed (No 2)
Costs - application for contributors to fighting fund to pay costs of successful defendant - discretion as to costs under Supreme Court Act 1981 s 51
McVicar v United Kingdom
Human rights - Defamation - Libel - Unavailability of legal aid - Exclusion of evidence - Burden of proof - Costs - Injunction - Effective access to a court - Article 6, ECHR - Freedom of expression - Article 10, ECHR
Kinch v Associated Newspapers Ltd
Defamation - Libel - meaning - justification - allegation of infamy - bad reputation
Ferguson v Associated Newspapers Limited
Defamation - Libel - football manager - summary disposal - section 8 Defamation Act 1996 - defamatory meaning - summary relief - quantum of damages
Gaddafi v Telegraph Group Ltd (No.3)
Defamation - Libel - pre-trial review - application by defendant to strike out claim as an abuse of the process on grounds that the Libyan claimant did not have sufficient standing or reputation in England to warrant his libel action going before a jury - application by defendant to strike out plea of foreign publication on grounds that reliance on common law presumption that foreign law the same as English law incompatible with Article 10 ECHR
Gillick v Brook Advisory Centres & Another (No.2)
Defamation - Libel - Summary Disposal - s.8 Defamation Act 1996 - Determination of Meaning - Whether words complained of were defamatory
Lillie & Reed v Newcastle City Council & others
Defamation - Libel - Malice- Application to strike out plea of malice at the close of the Claimants' case
English & Another v Hastie & Another
Defamation - Libel - Qualified privilege - Reynolds privilege - Jury trial - Reportage - s.15 & Schedule 1 Part 2 Defamation Act 1996
Kiam v MGN Ltd
Defamation- Libel - Damages - Jury trial - Appeal on quantum - whether award of £105,000 was excessive - procedure to determine size of bracket - referrring jury to comparable awards
Loutchansky v Times Newspapers Ltd and others (Nos. 2-5)
Defamation - Libel - Qualified Privilege - limitation - test to be applied in determining whether Reynolds qualified privilege available - website publication.
Carpenter v Associated Newspapers Ltd
Defamation - Libel- Fair Trial - Striking Out - CPR 3.4(2) - Abuse of Process - article 6 - right to a fair trial
Cook & Carlton Communications plc v News Group Newspapers Ltd
Defamation - Libel - Justification - Justifying allegations sharing a common sting - Lucas-Box - Case management
Al-Fagih v HH Saudi Research & Marketing
Defamation - Libel - Qualified privilege - Reynolds - Duties of responsible journalists - Verification of information - Political debate - Neutral reportage
Donnelly & Others v Young & Another
Defamation - Libel - Qualified Privilege - Election Communications - s.10 Defamation Act 1952 - Malice - Striking Out - CPR 3.4(2)
Best v Charter Medical of England Ltd
Defamation - Slander - Requirement to set out precise words used in Particulars of Claim - Whether Claimant had pleaded words with sufficient precision - Whether Claimant could seek further information from the Defendant as to the precise words used - CPR Part 53 PD 2.4
Hamilton v Milroy-Sloan
Defamation- Libel - Injunctive Relief- Asset freezing order
Berezovsky v Forbes Inc & Michaels (No.2)
Defamation - Libel - Meaning - Justification of lesser meaning - Article 10 - Human Rights Act 1998 - s.5 Defamation Act 1952
Gillick v Brook Advisory Centres & Another
Defamation - Libel - Meaning - Ruling on Meaning - CPR Part 53 PD 4.1 - Principles to be applied
Baldwin v Rusbridger
Defamation - Libel - Republication - Qualified Privilege - Reynolds - Reply to attack - Fair Comment - Freedom of Expression - Article 10 - European Convention on Human Rights
McPhilemy v Times Newspapers Ltd (No.4)
Defamation - Libel - Costs - Claimant's Offer to Settle - CPR Part 36.21 - Consequences of Claimant doing better than offer made - Indemnity Costs
McPhilemy v Times Newspapers Ltd (No.3)
Defamation - Libel - Jury Trial - Appeal against alleged perversity in jury verdict - Question left to the jury specifically on Appellants' insistence - Abuse of Process
Branson v Bower
Defamation - libel - fair comment - defendant publishing article about claimant's motives for bidding for National Lottery franchise - whether words complained of comment or statements of fact - judge ruling that words were comment
Elite Model Agency v BBC
Defamation - libel - reference - defamation of a company - whether correct claimant had sued - whether individuals should have sued
Loutchansky v Times Newspapers Ltd and others (No. 4)
Libel - Reynolds qualified privilege
Alexander v Arts Council of Wales
Defamation - libel - withdrawing of malice from the jury at conclusion of evidence - right to jury determination - CPR Part 24 - summary jdgment - s.69 Supreme Court Act 1981
O’Shea v MGN Limited
Defamation - libel - reference - photograph - look-alike - Article 10 ECHR
Milne v Telegraph Group Ltd
Defamation - libel - summary disposal - s.8 Defamation Act 1996
Burstein v Times Newspapers Ltd
Defamation - Libel - Damages - Evidence in mitigation of damages - rule in Scott v Sampson - Summary disposal under s.8 Defamation Act 1996
Safeway v Tate
Defamation - Libel - CPR Part 24 - Summary Judgment - Right to Jury Trial - s.69 Supreme Court Act 1981
Ruddy v Mercury Personal Communications Ltd
Defamation - Libel - Action brought on document disclosed in earlier proceedings - Striking Out - Abuse of Process - CPR Part 31.22(1)
Gaddafi v Telegraph Group Ltd (No.2)
Defamation - Libel - Striking out - Delay - Abuse of Process - CPR 3.4(2)
Hickey v Marks
Defamation – libel - justification - fair comment – test for permission to appeal against trial findings of judge
Berezovsky v Forbes Inc & Michaels
Defamation - Jurisdiction - Choice of Forum - Forum Non Conveniens - Claimants' connection with and reputation in England and Wales - Admittance of new evidence
Gilbert v MGN Ltd
Defamation - libel - rugby ball manufacturer - qualified privilege - Reynolds - summary disposal
Hamilton v Fayed
Defamation - libel action over allegations on television of corruption by Member of Parliament - parliamentary privilege - waiver under section 13 of Defamation Act 1996 - trial requiring investigation of same issues as Parliamentary Commissioner for Standards - whether libel action involved breach of parliamentary privilege and should be stayed.
McPhilemy v Times Newspapers Ltd (No.2)
Defamation - Libel - Civil Evidence - Use of witness statements at trial - CPR Part 32.5
GKR Karate v Yorkshire Post Ltd (No 2)
Defamation - libel - qualified privilege - Reynolds - information from sports governing body - trial of preliminary issue - whether article complained of protected by qualified privilege
GKR Karate v Yorkshire Post Ltd
Defamation - libel - qualified privilege - Reynolds - preliminary issues - correct approach to assessment of privilege and malice
Gaddafi v Telegraph Group Ltd
Defamation - libel - newspaper publication - qualified privilege - Reynolds - journalist's sources - whether non-disclosure of sources precludes reliance on privilege
Reynolds v Times Newspapers Ltd
Defamation - libel - qualified privilege- newspaper publication concerning public figure engaged in political events- whether qualified privilege attached to all discussion of political matters- whether privilege attached to publication
Dwek v Macmillan Publishers Ltd & Others
Defamation - Libel - Photograph - Identification - Striking Out - Ruling on Meaning
McPhilemy v Times Newspapers Ltd
Defamation - Libel - Amendment - Justification - Lucas Box Meanings - Proportionality - proper role of pleadings
Godfrey v Demon Internet Ltd
Defamation - Libel - Damages - Evidence in mitigation of damages
Norman v Future Publishing
Defamation - libel - defamatory content - ridicule - attribution of joke - whether words capable of being defamatory
Basham v Gregory (No.2)
Defamation - Libel - Meaning - Justification - Defamation Act 1952, s.5 - Summing up - Misdirection - Criticism of counsel - Retrial
Service Corporation International plc & Anor v Channel Four Television & Anor
Copyright - Confidential information - Trespass - Funeral directors - Undercover filming for broadcast - Employee of plaintiffs - Interim injunction - Serious issue to be tried - Balance of convenience
Marks & Spencer plc v Granada Television Ltd
Defamation - Libel - Evidence - Hearsay - Civil Evidence Act 1968
Holley v Smyth
Defamation - libel - interim injunction - justification - whether motive of publisher relevant
Brady v United Kingdom
Human Rights- Defamation - Libel - malicious falsehood - legal aid - mental patients - access to court - right to private life - inhuman and degrading treatment
Aitken v Preston and Others
Defamation - Libel - Mode of Trial - Trial by Judge alone - Prolonged Examination of Documents - s.69 Supreme Court Act 1981
Jones v Pollard
Defamation - Libel - Quantum of damages - whether award was excessive
Broxton v McClelland (No.2)
Defamation - Libel - conduct of jury trial
Basham v Gregory
Defamation - Late Amendments - Justification
Tolstoy Miloslavsky v United Kingdom
Defamation - Libel - Freedom of expression - article 10- access to court - artcile 6- quantum of libel damages - injunction restraining further publication - security for costs order
Charleston & Smith v News Group Newspapers Ltd
Defamation - Libel - Headline - Photographs - Meaning
Broxton v McClelland
Defamation - libel - abuse of process - collateral purpose - striking out
McDonalds Corp v Steel and Morris
Defamation - Libel - Striking Out - Defence - Justification - Basis on which it was proper to advance plea of justification - defences of justification and fair comment form part of the framework by which free speech is protected
Charlton v EMAP plc and others
Defamation - settlement - statement in open court - defendant's objection to terms - court's approach - relevant considerations - whether commercial reasons for settlement offer to be referred to
Warren v Marsh
Sport - libel - television broadcast - boxer accusing manager of impropriety - justification - consent - whether one joint publisher could rely on consent given to another
ex parte Coventry Newspapers Ltd
Disclosure - Defamation - Libel - public interest immunity - implied undertaking - criminal proceedings
Brent Walker Group Plc v Time Out Ltd
Defamation - fair comment on privileged statement - striking out of defence - what facts to be proved for valid defence
US Tobacco v BBC
Defamation - Libel - justification of meanings not complained of - twin defamatory stings - complaint of one only - defendant justifying both - whether case to be confined to one sting only
Barnett v Crozier
Defamation - settlement with one of two defendants - statement in open court - objection by remaining defendant -discretion to permit
Williams v Reason
Libel - Appeal - Justification - Wider meaning - Admissible Evidence