Cases

Gaddafi v Telegraph Group Ltd (No.3)

Case Reference 12 March 2002
Court Queen's Bench Division
Judge Sir Oliver Popplewell
Date of Judgment 12 Mar 2002

Summary

Defamation - Libel - pre-trial review - application by defendant to strike out claim as an abuse of the process on grounds that the Libyan claimant did not have sufficient standing or reputation in England to warrant his libel action going before a jury - application by defendant to strike out plea of foreign publication on grounds that reliance on common law presumption that foreign law the same as English law incompatible with Article 10 ECHR

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