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R (Alexander) v Secretary of State for Justice
Judicial review – Prisoner communications – Irrationality – Article 10 – PSI 37/2010
R (MNL) v Westminster Magistrates’ Court
Reporting restrictions – Article 8 – open justice – Proceeds of Crime Act 2002
Rebekah Vardy v Coleen Rooney
Libel – Defence under s.2 of the Defamation Act 2013
Raffaele Mincione v Gedi Gruppo Editoriale S.p.A
Defamation – Libel – Internet injunction – Jurisdiction
Rebekah Vardy v Coleen Rooney
Libel – disclosure – journalistic sources – section 10 Contempt of Court Act 1981 – Article 10 ECHR – waiver – witness summonses
R (on the application of Newsquest Media Group Ltd) v Legally Qualified Chair of the Police Misconduct Tribunal
Open justice – anonymity – statutory disciplinary proceedings
Rolfe v Veale Wasbrough Vizards LLP
Data protection – harm – de minimis - summary judgment
Rebekah Vardy v Coleen Rooney
Libel – summary judgment – strike out – social media – proportionality
R (Autonomous Non-Profit Organisation TV-Novosti) v The Office of Communications
Media regulation - Ofcom - codes of practice - sanction - impartiality - political speech - Judicial Review - Article 10 - proportionality
Re Al M (Reporting Restrictions Order)
Reporting Restrictions - Witness Anonymity - Right to Life (Art 2) - Prohibition against torture, inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment (Art 3) - Freedom of Expression (Article 10) - Blackmail
R (BBC) v Newcastle Crown Court
Judicial Review of a Production Order under PACE
R (oao TT) v The Registrar General for England and Wales
Anonymity - Parties to proceedings - Article 8 - Article 10 - rights of children
RJ v Tigipko 2
Reporting Restrictions – Contempt of Court Act 1981 – Anonymity
Richard Burgon MP v News Group Newspapers Limited and Thomas Newton Dunn
Libel - Malicious Falsehood - Data Protection
RJ v Tigipko
Family proceedings – Reporting Restrictions – Administration of Justice Act 1960 - Children Act 1989 - Anonymity
Reay v Beamont
Defamation - privacy - data protection - harassment - preliminary issue - meaning
R (on the application of Drain) v Birmingham Crown Court and others
Trade Marks Act - s.97 Trade Marks Act 1994 - Trade marked goods - Forfeiture order - Article 1 Protocol 1 (A1P1) - Comatibility with European Convention Rights
R (on the application of Emblin) v Commissioners for HM Revenue & Customs
Judicial Review -Breach of Confidence - Legal Professional Privilege - Suspected Tax Avoidance Schemes - No Confidence in Iniquity - Inducement to Breach Confidence - Alternative Remedies - s.316B Finance Act 2004 (voluntary disclosure to HMRC not restricted by any duty of confidentiality) - Data Protection Act 1998
R v R & Anor
Reporting Restrictions – Court of Appeal – Anonymity Orders – Section 97 Children Act 1989 – Open Justice
R v Jemma Beale
Sexual Offences Amendment Act 1992 - anonymity - Contempt of Court Act 1981 - postponement of reporting
R ((1) Ingenious Media Holdings plc and (2) Mr Patrick McKenna) v Commissioners for Her Majesty’s Revenue and Customs
Ingenious Media v HMRC – Judicial Review – Breach of Confidence – “off the record” – publicity – Supreme Court – statutory construction – common law
Richardson v (1) Trinity Mirror (Merseyside) Ltd (2) Neil Docking
Libel – report of court proceedings - qualified privilege – rehabilitation of offenders – privacy – negligence - harassment
Richardson v Facebook; Richardson v Google (UK) Ltd
Defamation – privacy – identity of defendant - definition of publisher – liability of ISPs
Rhodes (previously “MLA”) v OPO
Elements of the tort of Wilkinson v Downton - interim injunction - article 10 - freedom of expression - whether Wilkinson v Downton should operate to prohibit a writer from telling a true autobiographical account of his upbringing which risks causing psychological harm to his son
Rada-Ortiz v Espinosa-Vadillo
Harassment - websites - injunction - justification
R (Evans) v HM Attorney General (Supreme Court)
Prince Charles letters - Freedom of Information Act 2000 – Environmental Information Regulations 2004 – Constitutional Law – Executive Veto – EU Charter of Fundamental Rights
Rufus v Elliott (preliminary issue)
Defamation - Libel - Meaning - Trial - Preliminary Issue
Rufus v Elliott (CA)
Defamation – Libel – Meaning – Capability
R v William Cornick
Identification - s. 39 Children and Young Persons Act 1933 - Article 2 - Article 8 - Article 10
R v NCJ Media Ltd; R v Aitken
Reporting restrictions - s.39 Children & Young Persons Act 1933 - breach of court order - contempt
Rapisarda v Colladon
Reporting restrictions- financial remedy proceedings- Judicial Proceedings (Regulation of Reports) Act 1926- judicial discretion
R (British Sky Broadcasting Ltd) v Commissioner of Police of the Metropolis
production order - access to evidence - PACE schedule 1 - journalistic material
R (Evans) v Attorney General
freedom of information - privacy - advocacy correspondence - Prince of Wales - executive power under s.53(2) of FOIA 2000 - reasonableness
RBOS Shareholders Action Group Ltd v News Group Newspapers Ltd
Defamation - Meaning - Preliminary Ruling
Reynolds v Bovey
Defamation - Internet - Strike Out - Publication - Pleadings - Litigants in Person
Rufus v Elliott
Defamation - Libel – Meaning – Innuendo - Capability
Robyn Rihanna Fenty v Arcadia Group Brands Ltd (T/A Topshop)
passing off - t-shirt - intellectual property - goodwill
R (T) v Greater Manchester Chief Constable (CA)
Cautions and convictions - rehabilitation of offenders - disclosure - Article 8
RocknRoll v News Group Newspapers Ltd
Privacy - Injunction - Expectation of Privacy - Public Figure - Public Domain - Public Interest
Rugby Football Union v Viagogo Ltd
Disclosure - Norwich Pharmacal Order - Charter of Fundamental Rights of the EU - Article 8
R (UK2 Telecom Limited) v Sir Hayden Phillips, Independent Reviewer of ASA Adjudications
UK2 Telecom Limited- Sir Hayden Phillips- The Advertising Standards Authority- Judicial Review – Costs - proceedings concluded before permission
R (On the application of Guardian News and Media) v (1) City of Westminster Magistrates Court (2) Government of the United States
Extradition - Application by Media for Access to Documents referred to in Open Court - Criminal Procedure Rules - Inherent Jurisdiction
R (Associated Newspapers Ltd) v Rt Hon Sir Brian Leveson (as Chairman of the Leveson Inquiry)
Judicial review - public inquiry - press practices, ethics - journalists as witnesses - anonymous evidence - ruling - fairness - reputation - Convention rights - judicial review - application dismissed
R (Bonhoeffer) v GMC
Judicial review - disciplinary proceedings - General Medical Council - fitness to practice - doctor - serious allegations - hearsay evidence - fairness - Article 6 ECHR - Panel decision to admit - challenge by practitioner - evidence yet to be heard - whether availability of subsequent appeal sufficient remedy - reliance on hearsay unfair
RJA v AJR
Privacy - Breach of Confidence - Misuse of Private Information - Derogations from Open Justice - Whether the hearing should take place in private - whether anonymity should be continued
Re Baby RB (Press Injunction)
Family proceedings - Reporting restrictions - Article 8 - Article 10
Re MGN Ltd
Reporting restrictions - Criminal proceedings - Blanket ban on reporting trial - Contempt of Court Act 1981, s.4(2) - Effect of contemporaneous reporting on witnesses at trial
R (On the application of Guardian News and Media Ltd) v City of Westminster Magistrates’ Court
Extradition proceedings – Criminal proceedings - Disclosure to media of documents referred to in open court – Case stated – Judicial review
R (on the application of Secretary of State for the Home Department) v HM Coroner for Inner West London
Open justice - Coroners inquests - Private hearings - National security - Terrorism - Meaning of "the public" in r.17 Coroners Rules 1984 - s.8(3) Coroners Act 1988
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
R (on the application of Harper and Johncox) v Aldershot Magistrates Court
Reporting restrictions - Magistrates court - Application for order banning publication of defendant police officers home address - Order refused - Judicial review
R v Sheppard & Whittle
Public order offences - Racially inflammatory material - Racial hatred - Internet - Publication to a section of the public - Web server outside jurisdiction - Public Order Act 1986
Re SC (Children) sub nom SC v HC
Contempt - Orders - Penal notices - Disclosure - Foreign lawyers
Re Ward; sub nom Dr A & Others v Ward & Ward
Care Proceedings - Anonymity - Expert witnesses - Contra mundum injunctions - Publication of information relating to the proceedings - s.12 Administration of Justice Act 1960 - Article 8 - Privacy
R (on the application of A) v B
Human Rights - s.7(1)(a), Human Rights Act - Jurisdiction - Investigatory Powers Tribunal - s 65(2)(a), Regulation of Investigatory Powers Act 2000 - Judicial review - Bias - Freedom of expression - Right to fair trial - Articles 6, 10, ECHR
R (on the application of L) v Comr of Police of the Metropolis
Judicial review – Enhanced criminal record certificate - Inclusion of information in certificate - Declaration of incompatibility - Police Act 1997, s.115(7) – Privacy – Article 8
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
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
RST v UVW
Article 10 - Freedom of expression - Article 8 - Respect for privacy - s.12 Human Rights Act 1998 - Privacy – Confidence – Interim injunction
Re Child X (Residence and Contact – Rights of media attendance – FPR Rule 10.28(4))
Family proceedings - Reporting Restrictions - Family Procedure Rules 1991 - The Family Proceedings (Amendment No 2) Rules 2009 - Children - Rights of Media Attendance - Rule 10.28(4)
Re Stedman & Patten (& Others)
Reporting restrictions - Family - Children - Injunctions - Article 10 - Freedom of expression - Article 8 - Respect for privacy and family life - Public domain - 'Canute' principle - s.12 Human Rights Act 1998
Radu v Houston & Another (No.4)
Libel - Justification - Pleading of a Chase level 2 defence - Striking out
Reklos and Davourlis v Greece
European Convention on Human Rights - Article 8 – Right to respect for private and family life –Photography – Consent – New-born baby
R (On the application of Taranissi) v HFEA
Access to court documents - Non-party - CPR 5.4(2) - Judicial review
Radu v Houston & Another (No.3) (CA)
Defamation - Libel - Reynolds privilege - Public interest - Obtaining comment - Gist of claimant's position
R (Animal Defenders International) v Culture Secretary (HL)
Human rights - Freedom of expression - Article 10, ECHR - Prohibition of political advertising - Broadcasting - Television -Human Rights Act 1998 - Declaration of incompatibility - Communications Act 2003
R v Westminster Mags Court & ASIC ex p Hafner & Ors
Criminal evidence - Mutual assistance - Private documents - Article 8, European Convention on Human Rights - s.15, Crime (International Co-operation) Act 2003
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
R (Corner House Research & Another) v Director of Serious Fraud Office
Open justice - CPR 5.4C - access to documents - Administrative law - Privacy
R v Croydon Crown Court & A & B ex parte Trinity Mirror plc & Ors
Reporting restrictions - Criminal conviction - Order to protect defendant's children - Open justice - s.11, Contempt of Court Act 1981 - s.45(4), Supreme Court Act 1981 - s.159, Criminal Justice Act 1988
R (on the application of British Board of Film Classification) v Video Appeals Committee
Judicial review - Classification - s.4A(1), Video Recordings Act 1984 - Refusal to classify - Test to be applied - Parliamentary comments - Whether actual harm or potential harm required - Misdirection
R v Swansea Crown Court, ex parte BBC
Reporting restrictions - s.39, Children and Young Persons Act 1933 - Criminal offence - Order to prohibit publication of particulars identifying child as defendant - Application to lift restrictions - Whether any good reason for restrictions
R (Green) v City of Westminster Magistrates’ Court
Judicial review - offence of blasphemous libel - Art 10 ECHR - s.2(4) Theatres Act 1968 - discretion to issue summons
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
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
Re LM (Reporting Restrictions: Coroner’s Inquest)
Family law - Reporting restrictions - Inquest - Injunctions - Human rights - Privacy - Article 8 ECHR - Freedom of expression - Article 10 ECHR
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
Re Bournemouth & Boscombe Athletic Community Football Club Ltd (CA)
Contempt - Reporting restrictions - Private hearing - Party disclosing information to journalist - s.12 Administration of Justice Act 1960 - CPR Part 39.2(3)
RWE NPower v Carrol & Others
Harassment - Trespass - Injunction - Representative Capacity of Defendant - CPR 19.6(4) - Enforcement of Order - Power of Arrest under Protection from Harassment Act 1997.
Re Ward; BBC v CAFCASS Legal & Ors
Reporting restrictions - Care proceedings - s. 12 Adminstration of Justice Act 1960 - Disclosure - Anonymised judgments - Contra mundum order to protect medical expert witnesses, treating doctors, social workers and other witnesses in care proceedings - Interim orders - Practice and procedure - s. 12 Human Rights Act 1998 -Duration of order - Requirement of notice
R (Laporte) v Chief Constable of Gloucestershire
Demonstrations - Apprehended breach of the peace - Police - Freedom of expression - Article 10 - Freedom of assembly- Article 11
R (Animal Defenders International) v Culture Secretary (DC)
Freedom of expression - Article 10 - Political advertising - ss.319-321, Communications Act 2003 - Declaration of incompatibility - Margin of appreciation
Radu v Houston & Another (CA)
Security for costs - Stay - Failure to comply with unless orders - Summary judgment
R v B
Reporting restrictions - Postponement of reporting - s.4(2), Contempt of Court Act 1981 - Risk of substantial prejudice - Right to fair trial - Art 6, ECHR - Right to freedom of expression - Art 10, ECHR
Re Brampton Manor Trade Mark
Trade Marks - Opposition - School Badges - Trade Marks Act 1994 s.3(1)(b) (devoid of distinctive character) - s.3(1)(c) (descriptive marks) - s.3(6) (bad faith)- Costs
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
Re Bournemouth & Boscombe Athletic Community Football Club Ltd
Civil procedure - Contempt of court - Reporting restrictions - Private hearing - Private judgment - Party disclosing information to journalist - CPR Part 39.2(3) - s.12, Administration of Justice Act 1960
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
R v Central Criminal Crown Court, ex parte Times Newspapers & Ors
Reporting the courts - Proceedings in camera - Open justice - ECHR, Articles 6 and 10
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
Ratiu & Others v Conway (CA)
Defamation - Malicious falsehood - Justification - Malice - Misdirection - Withdrawing malice from jury - Damages - Fiduciary duty - Breach of confidence
R (Mullins) v Appeal Board of the Jockey Club
Judicial review - horseracing - prohibited substance - morphine - disqualification from race - prelminary issues - whether rules required proof of concentration and potential effect on horse - domestic bodies answering no - claim for judicial review - amenability - precedent
R (Grierson) v Ofcom
Judicial review - Permission - media and entertainment - Locus - Delay - Wednesbury unreasonableness - s. 105(c) Broadcasting Act 1990
R (Gazette Media) v Teeside Crown Court
Reporting Restrictions - Children - s.39 Children and Young Persons Act 1933 - Proper scope of order - Appeals - s.159 Criminal Justice Act 1988 - Sexual offences - Automatic restrictions - s.1(2) Sexual Offences (Amendment) Act 1992
Re W
Criminal trial - Injunction to restrain identification of defendant and victim - Children - Non-parties - Privacy - Article 8 - Freedom of expression - Article 10
Rackham v Sandy & Others (No.2)
Defamation - Libel - Trial - Qualified Privilege - Malice - Damages
Rackham v Sandy and Others
Defamation – Libel – Mode of trial – Prolonged examination of documents – s.69 Supreme Court Act 1981
R v Burrell
Rape trial – reporting restriction under s.4(2) Contempt of Court Act 1981 – complainant threatening not to give evidence unless restriction imposed - Articles 8, 10 European Convention on Human Rights
R v Barnes
Sports law - Criminal law - Grievous bodily harm - Football match - Tackle - Consent - Appropriate threshold for criminal proceedings relating to incidents occurring during sporting event
R (Nilsen) v Governor of HMP Full Sutton & Another (CA)
Prisoner writing about his crimes - prisoners' rights - Prison Act 1952 - freedom of expression - Article 10 ECHR
Richardson v Schwarzenegger & Others
Libel - Service out - CPR 6.20 - liability for republication - qualified privilege - reply to attack - agent and principal
Re X & Y
Privacy - Injunctions - Reporting restrictions - Children
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
Re B (A Child) (Disclosure)
Family Proceedings - Publicity - s.12 Administration of Justice Act 1960 - s.97 Children Act 1989 - Rule 4.23 Family Proceedings Rules 1991
Reed Executive plc & Another v Reed Business Information Ltd & Others
Intellectual Property- Trade Marks - Company Name - Identical/Similar Marks - Use of Trade Marks as Metatags
R (Nilsen) v Governor of HMP Full Sutton & Another
Public law - Judicial review - Human Rights - Prisoners - Prison Rules - Freedom of expression - Art 10, ECHR - Autobiographical writings - Proportionality - Rationality
Re Roddy (A Minor); Torbay Borough Council v Associated Newspapers Ltd
Family law- Human Rights - Children - local authorities - care proceedings- privacy - rights of mature teenager - Article 8 - Article 10- freedom of expression - proper approach to varying injunction
R (A) v Secretary of State for the Home Office
Public Law - Judicial review - Human rights - Freedom of expression - ECHR, Art 10, 6 - Suspected terrorists - Asylum seekers - Interviews
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
R (Pro-Life Alliance) v BBC & Others
Public Law - Judicial review - Party election broadcast - Broadcasters - Offensive material - Freedom of expression - Art 10 ECHR
Rigg v Associated Newspapers Ltd
Defamation - Libel - Offer of amends - s2 Defamation Act 1996 - Disclosure - Whether journalist's notes should be disclosed
R v Shayler
Human Rights - Criminal Law - Article 10 - Freedom of Expression - prosecution under the the Official Secrets Act 1989 - whether the OSA is compatible with article 10 of the ECHR
R (Persey) v Secretary of State for Environment Food and Rural Affairs
Public Law - Administrative law - judicial review - foot and mouth disease inqury - in public or in private - access to information - Article 10 ECHR
R v L
Reporting Restrictions - s.4 Contempt of Court 1981 - Appeal of refusal to make an order to the Court of Appeal - s.159 Criminal Justice Act 1988 - Jurisdiction
RWD Technologies Ltd v Gibbs & Others
Intellectual property - confidential information - employment law - copyright - without notice order - discharge for non-disclosure - injunction
Radio Taxicabs (London) Ltd v Owner Drivers Radio Taxi Services Ltd
Intellectual property - Passing off - Instrument of fraud - Domain name - Injunction - delivery up
R (Ford) v Press Complaints Commission
Public Law - Judicial review - Privacy - Application for permission - Press Complaints Commission - Public authority - s.6 Human Rights Act 1998 - s.12(4)(b) Human Rights Act 1998
R v Secretary of State for Health ex parte Associated Newspapers & Others
Public Law - Judicial Review - Shipman Inquiry - Public or Private - Human Rights - Article 10 - Freedom to impart information - s.2 National Health Act 1977
Re Gracie Attard
Family - Children - Reporting Restrictions - Injunction - Privacy - Confidence - Press Complaints Commission Code of Conduct - s.12 Human Rights Act 1998
R v Sherwood ex parte Telegraph Group & Others
Reporting Restrictions - s.4(2) Contempt of Court Act 1981 - Subsequent trials - s.159 Criminal Justice Act 1988 - European Convention on Human Rights - Article 6, Article 10.
Raducan v IOC
Sport - Gymnastics - Disqualification - Doping / drug taking - Strict Liability - Relevance to penalty
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)
Ryder v Nicholl & Anor
Contract - Management agreement - Undue influence - Restraint of trade - Agency - Agent's knowledge
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
Re G (Celebrities: Publicity)
Family proceedings - press restrictions - celebrities - prohibition on taking or publishing photographs of children - prohibition on parents communicating with news media about each other or about children - prohibition on publishing order or summary of order - application by newspaper to discharge or vary court's order to permit publication of summary of court's decision
Reed International Books v King & Prior Limited
Liability of Directors - Liability of receivers - Whether potential liability for damages constitutes incurring of a debt
R v Disciplinary Committee of the Jockey Club, ex parte Aga Khan
Judicial Review - Domestic tribunal - whether amenable to judicial review
R v Jockey Club, ex p RAM Racecourses Ltd
Judicial Review - Availability of remedy - Legitimate Expectation
R v Disciplinary Committee of the Jockey Club, ex p Massingberd-Mundy
Judicial Review - Availability of remedy - Whether decision susceptible to judicial review
Re L (a minor)
Ward of court - Protection of ward - Freedom of publication - Jurisdiction - Contempt - s.12(1) Administration of Justice Act 1960