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Berezovsky v Russian State Television & Another
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The Judge accepted the Defendant's description of the Application as "unusual". In Prebble v Television New Zealand Ltd [1995] 1 AC 321, the Privy Council declined to stay proceedings on the grounds that the case could not be tried fairly because parliamentary privilege prevented investigation of part of the case. The Court accepted that there might be cases where the interests of justice required that a stay be granted, but that "a stay should only be granted in the most extreme circumstances. The effect of a stay is to deny justice to the plaintiff by preventing him from establishing his good name in the courts" (Lord Browne-Wilkinson).