Cases

Jameel & Another v Wall Street Journal Europe (CA)

Facts

The Wall Street Journal Europe published a report that the authorities were monitoring the Claimants' bank accounts to prevent them being used wittingly or unwittingly for financing terrorism. The Judge ruled that the words were not capable of bearing any lesser meaning than reasonable grounds to suspect. The substantive defence was qualified (Reynolds) privilege. There was no plea of justification. The Judge ruled that evidence was nevertheless admissible to prove that the Claimants' accounts were not subject to monitoring, to support a case that the Defendant's alleged sources could not have told the journalist what he claimed they had told him.

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