Cases

Hewitt & Others v Grunwald & Others

Held

Declining to strike out the defences, that: (1) the draft Amended Defence was viable as a matter of law (subject to a need for further particularity in a few areas). The concept of 'terrorist organisation' was arguably wide enough to embrace those who facilitated or funded acts of terror whether knowingly or recklessly. It would be for the jury to decide whether the press release in fact bore this wider meaning. (2) As to qualified privilege, it could not be said that the defence was bound to fail simply because the Defendants' mode of publication - via the Internet - was potentially so wide, particularly as it had not yet been established whether or not the press release had in fact been published to persons outside the scope of the privilege.

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