Cases

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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

[2010] EWHC 2819 (QB) - Queen's Bench Division

Judge Tugendhat J

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

[2010] EWHC 2011 (QB) - Queen's Bench Division

Judge Tugendhat J

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

[2008] EWHC 339 (QB) - Queen's Bench Division

Judge Eady J

Independent News & Media v Ireland

Defamation - Libel - Damages - Ireland - Safeguards against disproportionately high jury awards at first instance and on appeal - Article 10

(2006) 42 EHRR 1024 - European Court of Human Rights

Judge Ress P & Cabral Barreto, Caflisch, Turmen, Zupanèiè, Hedigan & Traja JJ

ICN Photonics Ltd v Patterson

Defamation - Libel - Rulings on Meaning - Slander of Goods - Whether defamatory imputation carried about the manufacturer - Function of Appeal Court

[2003] EWCA Civ 343 - Court of Appeal

Judge Schiemann, Rix & Keene LJJ