Victoria Beckham fails in privacy bid
Victoria Beckham has lost her bid to cut short a privacy action against Grazia magazine after the High Court refused to grant her summary judgment. The star brought proceedings over an article in the April edition of… Read More »
Mark Warby QC to address Data Protection and Privacy Conference
5RB’s Mark Warby QC will be speaking at the conference on Data Protection and Privacy organised by JUSTICE and Sweet & Maxwell to be held at Pinsent Masons on Wednesday 3 December 2008. Mark’s topic will be… Read More »
Lords refuse leave in Murray
The House of Lords today refused Big Picture (UK) Ltd’s petition for leave to appeal against the Court of Appeal’s interim ruling in the privacy claim involving photographs of J. K. Rowling’s son. In March this year the Court of… Read More »
PCC reiterates privacy guidance
The Press Complaints Commission has upheld a complaint against the Barking and Dagenham Recorder after it published photographs taken by a journalist who accompanied police on a raid of a woman’s home. It went on… Read More »
Judge lifts adoption injunction
A judge today allowed the Mail on Sunday to publish details of an adoption case involving a child who will need an organ transplant. Hampshire County Council had earlier obtained an order preventing the… Read More »
Anna Coppola to take maternity leave
Anna Coppola will be on maternity leave from 1st December 2008 and is planning to return to Chambers in June 2009. For any enquiries, please contact the clerks, Kim Janes, John Sizer or Andrew Love… Read More »
‘Tapas Seven’ win libel damages
Express Newspapers has apologised to seven friends of Kate and Gerry McCann over a series of articles – published in the Daily Express, the Sunday Express and the Daily Star between July and December last year… Read More »
Smaller proportion of defamation actions reaching trial
Media companies are becoming less willing to fight defamation actions all the way through to a verdict, according to a study by Sweet & Maxwell. The survey, based on the publisher’s online archive of law… Read More »
BBC ordered to bear costs after withdrawing privilege defence
Mohammed Taranissi, the IVF doctor suing the BBC in relation to an edition of Panorama entitled ‘IVF Undercover’ and his clinic ARGC have been awarded their legal costs of responding to a defence of Reynolds qualified… Read More »
High speed trial for former rail union chief
A jury has awarded £30,000 to the former chief of rail union ASLEF in respect of allegations published in Loco Journal in July 2006. Shaun Brady, who had previously brought a successful claim for unfair… Read More »
Sienna Miller wins photo damages
Sienna Miller has accepted £15,000 damages in an out-of-court settlement of the privacy action initiated against the publishers of the Daily Star over a paparazzi photo published in the newspaper. The actress had brought proceedings over the… Read More »
5RB wins Chambers and Partners award
For the second time in four years, 5RB last night was named ‘Defamation and Privacy Set of the Year’ at a ceremony at London’s Dorchester Hotel. The award panel said of 5RB: “5RB is… Read More »
5RB hold second conference
5RB held its second Conference at BAFTA, Piccadilly yesterday. The keynote speaker at the Conference, which sold out, was Joshua Rozenberg, whose talk entitled ‘Another strap across the bottom’ discussed developments in privacy law including the… Read More »
Sheffield Wednesday FC drop libel claims against fans
Sheffield Wednesday FC and its Chief Executive, Kaven Walker, have dropped their libel claims against a number of the club’s fans over comments posted on the bulletin boards of supporters’ website owls.co.uk. In regard… Read More »
Tesco accepts Guardian apology
Tesco has accepted a front-page apology by The Guardian to settle its claim against the newspaper over articles making false allegations of tax avoidance. The newspaper had published a series of articles in February… Read More »
Yuli Takatsuki to join 5RB as new tenant from 1 October 2008
5RB is delighted to announce that after the completion of her pupillage, Yuli Takatsuki, will be joining chambers as a tenant from 1 October 2008. From the same date, Andrew Monson and Iain Christie… Read More »
Publisher settles Warren libel action
The libel action brought by Frank Warren, the well-known boxing promoter, against Random House the publisher has settled. Mr Warren has accepted an offer of £115,000 in damages in addition to his costs. Mr Warren complained… Read More »
Sir Salman Rushdie slurs declared false
Sir Salman Rushdie has received an apology and been granted a declaration of falsity by the High Court in respect of claims contained in a book about his time living under police protection. Former police officer Ron Evans,… Read More »
United Nations attacks UK libel law
The United Nations has expressed concern that UK defamation law is discouraging critical media reporting on matters of serious public interest, including through the “phenomenon of ‘libel tourism’”. A Human Rights Committee report suggests the introduction a ‘public figure’ defence and the imposition… Read More »
CONFERENCE 5RB 24 September 2008
Cost: £350 plus VAT CPD Accredited Book Now The two years since the last 5RB Conference have seen important developments in media and sports law as the Courts have wrestled with the difficult balance to… Read More »