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Loutchansky v Times Newspapers Ltd and others (No. 8)
Defamation - Libel - application to amend Defence to plead justification after judgment entered
Gutnick v Dow Jones & Co Inc
Libel - Publication - Internet - Single publication rule - Appropriate forum
Lakah Group and Lakah v Al Jazeera and Mansour (No 2)
Contempt of court - Committal - Foreign citizens - Non-resident parties
Chase v News Group Newspapers Ltd
Defamation - Libel - Human rights - Freedom of expression - Justification - Conduct rule - Repetition rule - Matters post-dating publication
Milne v Express Newspapers (QBD)
Defamation - Offer of amends - s.4(3) Defamation Act 1996 - "knew or had reason to believe"
Times Newspapers Ltd v Burstein
Defamation - Libel - Costs - Conditional Fee Agreement - Indemnity principle - Preliminary issue - Order for cross-examination
Loutchansky v Times Newspapers Ltd and others (No. 7)
Defamation - Libel - Qualified privilege - Reconsideration of original decision on qualified privilege following the Court of Appeal's decision ([2002] QB 783)
Komarek v Ramco Energy Plc
Defamation - Libel - Conflict of laws - Legal professional privilege - Double actionability - Summary judgment - Qualified privilege - Malice
Clarke v Davey
Defamation - Slander - Strike out - CPR Part 24 - Abuse of process - Summary judgment - s.8 Defamation Act 1996 - Absolute privilege - Qualified privilege - Malice
Abu v MGN Ltd
Defamation - Libel - offer of amends- principles to be applied in assessing compensation under s3(5) of the Defamation Act 1996- damages
Grobbelaar v News Group Newspapers Ltd
Defamation - Libel - Review of jury verdict - Damages - Inherent power of House of Lords
Spencer v Sillitoe and International Computers Ltd
Defamation - Libel - Summary judgment - Disputed facts - Role of Jury - CPR Part 24 - s.69 Supreme Court Act 1981
Wilkey & Another v BBC
Civil procedure - Late service of claim form - Deemed date of service - Actual date of service - Dispensing with service under CPR Part 6.9 - Exceptional circumstances - Claimant at fault
Foster & Another v Associated Newspapers Limited
Defamation - Libel - meaning - justification - amendment - mode of trial - s.69 Supreme Court Act 1981 - adjournment of trial
Bataille v Newland & Ors
Defamation - Libel - Publication - Strike out - CPR Part 3.1 and 3.4 - No reasonable grounds for alleging publication - Summary Judgment under CRP Part 24.2 - no prospect of proving publication - Mini-trial.
Campbell v News Group Newspapers Ltd (No.2)
Defamation - Libel - quantum - justification - whether judge had misdirected jury - effect of attempt by claimant to pervert the course of justice - appeal allowed and damages reduced from £350,000 to £30,000
Lillie & Reed v Newcastle City Council & Others (No.2)
Defamation - Libel - Justification - Qualified privilege - Malice - Public authorities - Damages - Local Government (Access to Information) Act 1985.
Mawdsley v Guardian Newspapers Ltd
Defamation - Libel - Failure to mitigate - Summary disposal - s.8 Defamation Act 1996- damages
MacIntyre v Phillips
Defamation - Libel - qualified privilege - similar fact evidence - preliminary issue - rule of practice that qualified privilege be tried first
Fayed v Telegraph Group Ltd
Defamation - Libel - meaning
Wallis v Valentine
Defamation - Libel - Summary Judgment - Evidence of Publication - No prospect of Success - CPR Part 24 - Abuse of Process
Mills v MGN Ltd
Defamation - Libel - ruling on meaning - striking out - CPR Part 3.4(2) - exemplary damages
Gregson v Channel Four Television
Defamation - Libel - Mode of Trial - Prolonged Examination of documents - s.69 Supreme Court Act 1981
McManus v Beckham
Defamation - Slander - liability for republication - foreseeability - special damage
Bonnick v Morris
Defamation - Libel- qualified privilege to the world at large- meaning- whether single meaning rule applied applicable in determining whether Reynolds privilege available - whether article met standard of responsible journalism
Mark v Associated Newspapers Limited
Defamation - Libel - Meaning - Repetition rule - Bane and antidote - Whether repetition rule consistent with ECHR Article 10 jurisprudence - Interface between defences of justification and Reynolds privilege
Cook & Carlton Communications Ltd v News Group Newspapers Ltd (No.2)
Defamation - Libel - Justification - Amendment - Principles governing late application to amend to add extensive particulars of justification - Overriding Objective.
Hamilton v Al Fayed (No 2)
Costs - application for contributors to fighting fund to pay costs of successful defendant - discretion as to costs under Supreme Court Act 1981 s 51
McVicar v United Kingdom
Human rights - Defamation - Libel - Unavailability of legal aid - Exclusion of evidence - Burden of proof - Costs - Injunction - Effective access to a court - Article 6, ECHR - Freedom of expression - Article 10, ECHR
Kinch v Associated Newspapers Ltd
Defamation - Libel - meaning - justification - allegation of infamy - bad reputation
Ferguson v Associated Newspapers Limited
Defamation - Libel - football manager - summary disposal - section 8 Defamation Act 1996 - defamatory meaning - summary relief - quantum of damages
Gaddafi v Telegraph Group Ltd (No.3)
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
Gillick v Brook Advisory Centres & Another (No.2)
Defamation - Libel - Summary Disposal - s.8 Defamation Act 1996 - Determination of Meaning - Whether words complained of were defamatory
Lillie & Reed v Newcastle City Council & others
Defamation - Libel - Malice- Application to strike out plea of malice at the close of the Claimants' case
English & Another v Hastie & Another
Defamation - Libel - Qualified privilege - Reynolds privilege - Jury trial - Reportage - s.15 & Schedule 1 Part 2 Defamation Act 1996
Kiam v MGN Ltd
Defamation- Libel - Damages - Jury trial - Appeal on quantum - whether award of £105,000 was excessive - procedure to determine size of bracket - referrring jury to comparable awards