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Rebekah Vardy v Coleen Rooney
Libel – Defence under s.2 of the Defamation Act 2013
Guardian News & Media v The Executor of HRH Prince Philip, the Duke of Edinburgh (deceased) & Her Majesty’s Attorney-General
Open Justice - Non-Contentious Probate Proceedings - Whether the media has a right to be heard in proceedings in which it is not a party - Whether the President of the Family Division should have held a private hearing not on notice to the media - the role of the Attorney-General
George v Cannell (CA)
Malicious falsehood - proper interpretation of s.3, Defamation Act 1952 - whether s.3 requires a claimant to prove actual pecuniary damage or only its likelihood at the time of publication - whether damages for injury to feelings are recoverable if pecuniary damage sustained is only nominal
Soriano v Le Point & Anor
Libel – summary judgment – strike out – serious harm
(1) Dr Fatima Jabbar (2) DRJ55 Limited v AVIVA Insurance UK and others (No 1)
Libel – summary judgment – absolute privilege – experts – CPR Part 35
(1) Kumlin (2) EEW Eco Energy World plc v (1) Jonsson (2) Agerman (3) Östlund (4) Realtid Media AB
Libel - jurisdiction - centre of interests - Brussels Recast Regulation - serious harm - serious financial loss - rule against Reflective Loss - holding companies - trading reputation - rule in Marinari - causation - applicable law - double-actionability - eCommerce Directive
Millicom Services UK Limited & Ors v Michael Clifford
Reporting Restrictions – Open Justice – Article 8 – Article 10 – Confidentiality
BW Legal Services Limited v Glassdoor Inc
Norwich Pharmacal relief - Allegedly defamatory posts - Whether a declaration should be made that the court had no jurisdiction to try the claim because no valid service had been effected - Whether a declaration should be made that the court should not exercise its jurisdiction because of an exclusive jurisdiction clause in the Defendant's Terms of Use and/or because it was contended that the Claimant obtained an Order improperly or unfairly
Raffaele Mincione v Gedi Gruppo Editoriale S.p.A
Defamation – Libel – Internet injunction – Jurisdiction
Rebekah Vardy v Coleen Rooney
Libel – disclosure – journalistic sources – section 10 Contempt of Court Act 1981 – Article 10 ECHR – waiver – witness summonses
(1) Dr Fatima Jabbar (2) DRJ55 Limited v AVIVA Insurance UK and others (No 2)
Libel; absolute privilege; jurisdiction to hand down of judgment after parties conclude settlement.
Guardian News & Media v (1) Rozanov; (2) EFG Private Bank Ltd
Open Justice - Access to Documents
Attorney General v BBC
Open justice – whether hearing in public or private pursuant to CPR 39.2 – national security
ZXC v Bloomberg LP
Misuse of Private Information – Breach of Confidence – Data Protection Act 1998 – Article 8 – Article 10 – criminal investigations – letter of request – journalism
Vardy v Rooney
Joinder – Disclosure – Amendments – Further Information
Stadler v Currys Group Ltd
Data protection – misuse of private information – breach of confidence – negligence – smart devices – Jameel – de minimis – allocation
R (on the application of Newsquest Media Group Ltd) v Legally Qualified Chair of the Police Misconduct Tribunal
Open justice – anonymity – statutory disciplinary proceedings
Blake, Seymour & Thorp v Fox
Trials of Preliminary Issue - Meaning - Honest Opinion - Default Judgment - Relief From Sanctions - Trial by Jury - Shadow Pleadings
Soriano v Forensic News LLC & ors
Libel – Jurisdiction – Service Out – s.9 Defamation Act 2013 – Malicious Falsehood – s.3 Defamation Act 1952 – Loutchansky Malice – data protection – GDPR – Data Protection Act 2018 – UKGDPR – territorial applicability
Mahmudov & Mahmudova v Goni Sanzberro & ors
Libel – Jurisdiction – Brussels Recast Regulation – Centre of Interests
Abdulrazaq v Hassan & Ors
Libel - Publication of reasons for exclusion of individuals from mosque - Qualified privilege - Duty/interest - Reply to attack - Malice - Summary judgment
Johnson v Eastlight Community Homes
Data Protection – Misuse of Private Information – Breach of Confidence – Negligence – Jameel – De Minimis – Allocation
Wright v McCormack
Defamation – libel – amendment – serious harm – Dingle – Burstein
Rolfe v Veale Wasbrough Vizards LLP
Data protection – harm – de minimis - summary judgment
Farhan Junejo v New Vision TV Limited
Preliminary issue – whether publication occurred within jurisdiction – litigation bias – delay in issuing – destruction of records
Ashley v Times Newspapers Limited
Defamation - Libel - Trial of Preliminary Issues - Meaning - Defamatory imputation - Statement of fact / expression of opinion - Whether the repetition rule is engaged - Multiple publications
Cilliers v Gibraltar Health Authority
Libel – Malicious Falsehood – Slander - Strike out – Jurisdiction of Employment Tribunal - Johnson exclusion area – Summary judgment – Jameel abuse
Blackledge v Persons Unknown
Defamation – Libel – Harassment – Data Protection – Quantum – Damages – Injunction – Section 13 order
Greenstein v Campaign Against Antisemitism
Defamation - Libel - Malice- Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 - Spent Convictions - Whether the malice plea relating to spent convictions was correctly struck out
Rebekah Vardy v Coleen Rooney
Libel – summary judgment – strike out – social media – proportionality
Lachaux v Independent Print Ltd
Libel - publication on matter of public interest - s.4, Defamation Act 2013 - damages
Hodges v Naish
Slander - preliminary issues - publication - defamatory meaning - slanders actionable per se - serious harm - limitation
Canary Riverside Estate Management Ltd & Ors v Coates
Confidentiality – Abuse of Process – Amendments – Confidentiality Club – Disclosure
(1) Allen (2) Wood v (1) Panorama Limited (2) Olivero
Defamation claims in Gibraltar – right to trial by jury – application of Defamation Act 2013 to Gibraltar - jurisdiction
Corbyn v Millett
Preliminary issue – whether statement fact or opinion – bare comment – whether statement defamatory at common law
Soriano v Silverstein
Libel – section 9 Defamation Act 2013 – jurisdiction – service out – forum conveniens – service gateways – centre of interests
Lady Colin Campbell v MGN Ltd
Defamation - Meaning - Ambiguity - Extraneous Evidence - General Knowledge
Sahota v Middlesex Broadcasting Corporation Ltd & Ors
Defamatory meaning - Foreign language television broadcast - Whether defamatory - Whether fact or opinion
Parris v Ajayi & Ors
Libel - Malicious Falsehood - Strike out - Amendments - Henderson v Henderson abuse of process - Consent to disciplinary procedure within employment context - Friend v Civil Aviation Authority- Claim for losses flowing from dismissal - Jurisdiction of Employment Tribunal - Johnson exclusion area - Johnson v Unisys Ltd - Jameel abuse of process - Failure to provide reference
Duchess of Sussex v Associated Newspapers Ltd
Misuse of private information-breach of copyright-summary judgment and/or strike out of defence
Tinkler v Ferguson & others
Malicious Falsehood – Abuse of Process – Section 3 Defamation Act 1952
(1) Williams (2) Wickham-Jones (3) Lownie v (1) IC (2) FCDO
FOIA - exemptions - national security - Information Commissioner's Guidance - "in the alternative" - public law
Wright v Granath (CA)
Defamation – Jurisdiction – Lis Pendens – Lugano Convention – Negative Declaratory Relief
Soriano v Forensic News & ors
Libel - section 9 Defamation Act 2013 - jurisdiction - service-out - forum conveniens - malicious falsehood - GDPR - data protection - establishment - extra-territoriality - service gateways - centre of interests
True Vision Productions Ltd v Information Commissioner
Data Protection – Journalism Exemption (DPA 1998, s32) – Monetary Penalty Notices
Gerrard & Anor v (1) ENRC Ltd (2) Diligence International LLC
Covert surveillance – harassment – strike out - legal professional privilege
Napag Trading Ltd & Ors v GEDI Gruppo Editoriale S.p.A & Anor
Defamation – Libel – CPR Part 11 – Jurisdiction – Serious Harm – s.1, Defamation Act 2013 – Reference – Publication
Wan-Bissaka & Anor v Bentley
Greenstein v Campaign against Antisemitism
Defamation - Libel - s3, Defamation Act 2013 - Honest Opinion - Malice - Truth - Spent Convictions - Whether the Defendant should be granted summary judgment - Whether the malice plea should be struck out -
Data Protection - Misuse of Private Information - Spent Convictions- Abuse of Process
Depp v News Group Newspapers
libel – Defence under s.2 of the Defamation Act 2013
Sir Stelios Haji-Ioannou v (1) Telegraph Media Group (2) Mr Ben Marlow
Defamation – Trial of Preliminary Issues – Meaning – Honest Opinion – Defamatory at common law
Aven & Ors v Orbis Business Intelligence Ltd
Data Protection Act 1998 – s.35 exemption (legal purposes) – s.28 exemption (national security) – remedies
Tinkler v Ferguson & Ors
Malicious Falsehood – Strike Out – Abuse of Process – Damage – Jameel abuse
Serafin v Malkiewicz & Others
Libel - unfair judicial treatment - order for retrial - s 4 Defamation Act 2013 - defence of publication on matter of public interest
JQL v NTP
Privacy - breach of confidence - social media - real and substantial tort - general damages - aggravated damages - injunctive relief
Fortescue Metals Group & anor v (1) Argus Media Ltd (2) S&P Global Inc
Breach of Confidence - Trade Secrets - Injunction - Public Interest
CWD v Nevitt & Ors
Privacy - defamation - anonymity - r16 order - reporting restrictions - s11 Contempt of Court Act 1981
ZXC v Bloomberg LP
Misuse of Private Information – Breach of Confidence – Data Protection Act 1998 – Article 8 – Article 10 – criminal investigations – letter of request – journalism
(1) Greensill Capital (UK) Limited (2) Alexander Greensill v Reuters News And Media Limited
Defamation - Meaning - Preliminary Issue - Hearing Bundle
Sube v News Group Newspapers Ltd & Express Newspapers (No 3)
Harassment - Protection from Harassment Act 1997 - Harassment by Media Publications - Data Protection Act 1998 - s.10 Data Protection Act 1998 - s.14 Data Protection Act 1998
Hunter v Cooper & ors
Defamation – Libel – Slander – Limitation – Strike-Out – Summary Judgment – Equality Act 2010 – contract – tort – County Court – transfer – Abuse of Process
BVG v LAR (No 2)
Blackmail - Privacy - Misuse of Private Information - Harassment - Summary Judgment - Final Injunction
WM Morrison Supermarkets plc (Appellant) v Various Claimants (Respondents)
Vicarious liability – Data Protection Act 1998 – Misuse of private information – Breach of confidence
R (Autonomous Non-Profit Organisation TV-Novosti) v The Office of Communications
Media regulation - Ofcom - codes of practice - sanction - impartiality - political speech - Judicial Review - Article 10 - proportionality
Re Al M (Reporting Restrictions Order)
Reporting Restrictions - Witness Anonymity - Right to Life (Art 2) - Prohibition against torture, inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment (Art 3) - Freedom of Expression (Article 10) - Blackmail
Dimitri Rozanov v EFG Private Bank Limited
Open Justice – Access to Court Documents – Disclosure of documents to a non-party
Triplark Limited v Northwood Hall (Freehold) Ltd & others
Defamation - Trial of Preliminary Issues - Corporate Claimant - Meaning - Defamatory Meaning at Common Law - Honest Opinion
DSM SFG Group Holdings Limited v Kelly
Breach of Confidence - Harassment - Discharge of Undertakings to the Court - The extent, if at all, that it is permissible for a litigant to rely on confidential information, obtained by covert recording of another's premises, to support a legal claim before that litigant has established the right to use that information
Anna Turley v Unite the Union and Stephen Walker
Libel – Trial – Liability for publication – Serious harm – Truth – Public interest – Assessment of damages – CPR Part 36
UKIP Ltd v Braine & Ors
Injunction - Without Notice - Blackmail - Disclosure - Breach of Confidence – s.12, Human Rights Act 1998 - Interim Non-Disclosure Orders
Kirkegaard v Smith
Defamation - Meaning - Honest Opinion - Preliminary Issue Trial
UUU v BBB
Blackmail - Harassment - Legitimate Expectation of Privacy - ECHR Article 8 - "Without Prejudice" privilege - Anonymity - Private Hearing - Practice Guidance: Interim Non-Disclosure Orders
Chandler v O’Connor
Libel – Twitter – Summary Relief – Defamation Act 1996 – Assessment of Damages
EuroEco Fuels (Poland) Ltd & Ors v Szczecin and Swinoujscie Seaports Authority SA & Ors
Tort - Defamation - Libel - Jurisdiction - Regulation (EU) No 1215/2012 ("Brussels Recast Regulation") - Arts 7(2) & 30 - related actions - declining jurisdiction - stay of proceedings - Shevill
Sheikh v Associated Newspapers Limited
Defamation - Meaning - Honest Opinion - Preliminary Issue Trial
R (BBC) v Newcastle Crown Court
Judicial Review of a Production Order under PACE
Sadik v Sadik
Defamation - Libel - Strike out - Summary judgment - s.9, Defamation Act 2013 - CPR r.11 - Jurisdiction - Domicile - s.1, Defamation Act 2013 - Serious harm to reputation - Jameel abuse of process
SOJ v JAO
Injunction - Without Notice - Private Hearing- Anonymity - Blackmail - Data Protection - Privacy - Confidentiality - s12, Human Rights Act 1998
Lloyd v Google LLC
Data protection – personal data – Claimant seeking compensation for “damage” suffered by reason of contravention of statutory data protection requirement – whether “same interest” condition satisfied for bringing representative action under CPR r19.6
AAA v Rakoff
Injunction - Privacy – Anonymity - Expedition
BVC v EWF (No. 2)
Injunction - Privacy - Harassment - jurisdiction - summary judgment
(1) GC (2) AF (3) BH (4) ED v CNIL
Right to be forgotten – special category data– full controller obligations only bite on search engine when delisting request made – obligation to create accurate impression about current legal proceedings
Google v CNIL
Right to be forgotten – territorial scope of de-referencing request – no requirement for global delisting – use of geo-blocking
BVG v LAR (No 1)
Blackmail - Privacy - Misuse of Private Information - Harassment - Interim Injunction- Non-Disclosure Application
Caine v Advertiser & Times Ltd and Ors (No. 2)
libel – malicious falsehood – res judicata / cause of action estoppel – abuse of process – Extended Civil Restraint Order – liability for hyperlinked content – jurisdiction of a Deputy High Court Judge – totally without merit applications
Simon v Lyder
Defamation - Libel - Appeal from Court of Appeal of the Republic of Trinidad and Tobago - Reliance upon subsequent facts - The extent which, if at all, two or more different statements made upon different occasions by the same defendant may be aggregated for the purpose of giving rise to a cause of action in defamation
Fashion ID GmbH & Co. KG v Verbraucherzentrale NRW eV
Data protection – Facebook plugin embedded on website – joint controllers
Choudhrie v Choudhrie
Declaration – Breach of confidence – Marital confidence – Strike out - Jameel Abuse
R (oao TT) v The Registrar General for England and Wales
Anonymity - Parties to proceedings - Article 8 - Article 10 - rights of children
A & B v X & Y and Times Newspapers Ltd
Anonymity - employment - Employment Appeal Tribunal - sexual offences
Solicitor General v Holmes
Contempt in the face of the court – guidance where committal pursued in the Divisional Court
Lachaux v Independent Print Ltd
Defamation – serious harm to reputation under s.1, Defamation Act 2013 – construction – accrual of cause of action – role of meaning of words – role of inference in determination of issue of serious harm – applicability of repetition rule and rule in Dingle v Associated Newspapers to determination of issue of serious harm
Spicer v Commissioner of Police of the Metropolis
Defamation - meaning - preliminary issue trial - bane and antidote
Alsaifi v Secretary of State for Education
Defamation - Spokesperson's quote in newspaper article - Meaning - Principles governing quoted source liability - Serious Harm - Effect of Prior Court Judgment on reputational harm - Qualified Privilege - Press Releases
Butt v Secretary of State for the Home Department
Defamation – meaning – honest opinion
Serafin v Malkiewicz
Libel – public interest – truth – damages – unfair judicial treatment
Kennedy v National Trust for Scotland
Libel – Data Protection – Service within the Jurisdiction – forum non conveniens – Scotland – Deemed Service – Validity of the Claim Form
XW v XH (Court of Appeal)
Court of Appeal – Financial remedies – Reporting Restrictions – Anonymity
RJ v Tigipko 2
Reporting Restrictions – Contempt of Court Act 1981 – Anonymity
Greenstein v Campaign against Antisemitism
Defamation - Meaning - Expressions of Opinion or Statements of Fact - Preliminary Issue Trial - Antisemitism allegations