Cases

Briscoe Mitchell v Hodder & Stoughton Ltd & Anr, Associated Newspapers Limited (non-party)

Facts

The claimant sued her daughter and her daughter’s publishers over the contents of a book written by her daughter about her upbringing in the 1960s and 1970s. When it was published in 2006, the book was serialised by the Mail on Sunday and that newspaper and its sister newspaper the Daily Mail (both newspapers being owned by Associated Newspapers Limited) ran articles reporting reactions to the book expressed in interview with journalists by various of the claimant’s other children. The defendants issued a witness summons against a lawyer employed by the newspaper group to produce all documentary records and recordings of the interviews. They then revised their application to one for non-party disclosure.

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