Cases

Mahfouz and another v Brisard and another

Comment

The Court made clear that whether or not publication did in fact take place in England and Wales was a matter for a future hearing and that the issue was the determination of the legal contracts. The ruling does demonstrate how easy it is to be held liable as a publisher in the libel sense in this jurisdiction and it how difficult it is and will become for foreign publishers to limit being held liable here now that much book selling takes place on the internet and across borders. The example posed by the Judge of the letter marked private and confidential would not seem to assist a book publisher. The only safe course would seem to be not to publish at all.

Areas of work

Defamation
Foreign Jurisdictions
Media Law

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