Cases

Kahangi & Ors v Nourizadeh

Facts

The claimants brought actions for libel in relation to six articles published in a newspaper called Kayhan and on different websites. The first and second claimants were resident in Iran. The Third Claimant was a non-trading UK company. The Fourth Claimant was a company registered in Gibraltar. D, a dissident Iranian journalist domiciled in the UK applied for an order for security for costs down to the end of trial, arguing, on evidence of (a) Iranian state involvement with the Claimants and (b) evidence from an anonymous Iranian lawyer that enforcement in Iran would be problematic. C accepted that the grounds for security were met but argued that the discretion should not be exercised in favour of D on the basis that the application for security was in bad faith, the personal claimants were wealthy and evidence of difficulty of enforcement was insufficient.

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