Cases

Berezovsky & Another v Forbes Inc & Another

Facts

Forbes Inc ('F') were the publishers an American magazine which published a story alleging that Berezovsky ('B') was heavily involved in organised crime and corruption in Russia, and that Glouchkov (‘G’) was a criminal associate of his. The issue of the magazine in which the story appeared sold 785,710 copies in the US and Canada, 1,915 in England and Wales and 13 in Russia. B and G were frequent visitors to England and B had family there. B and G sought to issue defamation proceedings against F in England for damage to their reputation there. Leave to serve outside the jurisdiction was given by the Master, set aside by the High Court, and, after admitting new evidence on B’s reputation in England and the effect of the article on business with which B was associated, reinstated by the Court of Appeal. F appealed to the House of Lords.

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