Cases

Metropolitan International Schools Ltd v (1) Designtechnica Corporation (2) Google UK Ltd & (3) Google Inc

Issue

(1) Whether Google was a publisher at common law;

(2) Whether Google could avail itself of the defence of innocent dissemination (if the defence had not been abolished by the Defamation Act 1996);

(3) Whether Google could avail itself of the s. 1 defence;

(4) Whether sections 17 - 19 of the E-commerce regulations applied to search engines when read purposively with the Directive and decisions of European courts on the equivalent national provisions;

(5) Whether the Master's order for service out should be set aside.

Also