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Abdulrazaq v Hassan & Ors
Libel - Publication of reasons for exclusion of individuals from mosque - Qualified privilege - Duty/interest - Reply to attack - Malice - Summary judgment
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
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
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)
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
Murray v Associated Newspapers Ltd
Libel - Statement in open court - Unilateral statement - CPR PD 53 para 6.1
Jackson v Universal Music Operations Ltd
Libel - Malicious falsehood - Responsibility for publication - Internet - YouTube - Defamatory meaning - Statement that copyright claim made
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
Smith v Dha
Defamation - CPR 40.7 - Death of Claimant - Abatement of Action - Power to revive
von Hannover v Germany (No. 2)
Privacy - Photographs - Article 8 - public figure- public interest - injunction - debate of general interest
Axel Springer AG v Germany
Article 8 - Article 10 - privacy - reputation - freedom of expression
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
Bowker v RSPB
Defamation – Libel - Defamatory meaning - Mode of trial – Summary judgment - Qualified privilege – Malice – Scientific issues
Woodbridge v Stapleton
Libel - Qualified privilege - Malice - Summary judgment - Strike out - Jameel v Dow Jones - Abuse of process - Proportionality
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
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
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
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
Hughes v Alan Dick & Co Ltd
Defamation - Slander - Absolute privilege - Qualified privilege - Malice - Default judgment - Setting aside - CPR r.13.3(1)
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
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
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
Barrett v Universal-Island Records & Others
Contract - Parties - Agency - Copyright - Authorship - Performers' rights - ss.182A, 182B, Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988 - Regulation 27, Copyright and Related Rights Regulations 1996 - Unjust enrichment - Settlement agreement - Enforcement of settlement agreement - Abuse of process - Estoppel, acquiescence and laches - Cause of action estoppel - Trust of a promise
Hussein v William Hill
Defamation - Libel - Slander - Abuse of process - Issue estoppel - Attempt to reopen matters decided by court of competent jurisdiction