Year: 2008

Victoria Beckham fails in privacy bid

Victoria Beckham has lost her bid to cut short a privacy action against Grazia magazine after the High Court refused to grant her summary judgment.   The star brought proceedings over an article in the April edition of… Read More »

Lords refuse leave in Murray

The House of Lords today refused Big Picture (UK) Ltd’s petition for leave to appeal against the Court of Appeal’s interim ruling in the privacy claim involving photographs of J. K. Rowling’s son.    In March this year the Court of… Read More »

PCC reiterates privacy guidance

The Press Complaints Commission has upheld a complaint against the Barking and Dagenham Recorder after it published photographs taken by a journalist who accompanied police on a raid of a woman’s home. It went on… Read More »

Judge lifts adoption injunction

A judge today allowed the Mail on Sunday to publish details of an adoption case involving a child who will need an organ transplant.   Hampshire County Council had earlier obtained an order preventing the… Read More »

Anna Coppola to take maternity leave

Anna Coppola will be on maternity leave from 1st December 2008 and is planning to return to Chambers in June 2009. For any enquiries, please contact the clerks, Kim Janes, John Sizer or Andrew Love… Read More »

‘Tapas Seven’ win libel damages

Express Newspapers has apologised to seven friends of Kate and Gerry McCann over a series of articles – published in the Daily Express, the Sunday Express and the Daily Star between July and December last year… Read More »

High speed trial for former rail union chief

A jury has awarded £30,000 to the former chief of rail union ASLEF in respect of allegations published in Loco Journal in July 2006. Shaun Brady, who had previously brought a successful claim for unfair… Read More »

Sienna Miller wins photo damages

Sienna Miller has accepted £15,000 damages in an out-of-court settlement of the privacy action initiated against the publishers of the Daily Star over a paparazzi photo published in the newspaper.   The actress had brought proceedings over the… Read More »

5RB wins Chambers and Partners award

For the second time in four years, 5RB last night was named ‘Defamation and Privacy Set of the Year’ at a ceremony at London’s Dorchester Hotel.   The award panel said of 5RB: “5RB is… Read More »

5RB hold second conference

5RB held its second Conference at BAFTA, Piccadilly yesterday.  The keynote speaker at the Conference, which sold out, was Joshua Rozenberg, whose talk entitled ‘Another strap across the bottom’ discussed developments in privacy law including the… Read More »

Tesco accepts Guardian apology

Tesco has accepted a front-page apology by The Guardian to settle its claim against the newspaper over articles making false allegations of tax avoidance.   The newspaper had published a series of articles in February… Read More »

Publisher settles Warren libel action

The libel action brought by Frank Warren, the well-known boxing promoter, against Random House the publisher has settled.  Mr Warren has accepted an offer of £115,000 in damages in addition to his costs.    Mr Warren complained… Read More »

Sir Salman Rushdie slurs declared false

Sir Salman Rushdie has received an apology and been granted a declaration of falsity by the High Court in respect of claims contained in a book about his time living under police protection. Former police officer Ron Evans,… Read More »

United Nations attacks UK libel law

The United Nations has expressed concern that UK defamation law is discouraging critical media reporting on matters of serious public interest, including through the “phenomenon of ‘libel tourism’”. A Human Rights Committee report suggests the introduction a ‘public figure’ defence and the imposition… Read More »

CONFERENCE 5RB 24 September 2008

Cost: £350 plus VAT                                  CPD Accredited Book Now The two years since the last 5RB Conference have seen important developments in media and sports law as the Courts have wrestled with the difficult balance to… Read More »