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Morrison v Buckinghamshire County Council
Libel – public authority defendant – qualified privilege for public authority – amendment – malice – summary judgment
Dell’Olio v Associated Newspapers Ltd
Libel - ruling on meaning - whether pleaded meaning possible - approach to question whether words can bear any other defamatory meaning - relevance of Pre-Action Protocol and letter of claim - pleaded meaning impossible - C identified no other meaning of which she might complain - action dismissed
Zinda v ARK Academies
Defamation - limitation - discretion to disappy limitation - qualified privilege - malice
Dominic Raab MP v Associated Newspapers Ltd
Libel - application for stay - strike out - abuse of process - overriding objective - Art 10 ECHR - ability to defend a claim - Dominic Raab MP - Associated Newspapers Ltd - employment dispute - settlement agreement - confidentiality clause
Terluk v Berezovsky (No.2)
Defamation -appeal- damages- meaning- liability for republication- privilege- justification – fresh evidence - jury trial
Waterson v Lloyd (No 2)
Amendment - part 24 - summary judgment - delay - justification
Cooper v Turrell
Libel - breach of confidence - misuse of private information - assessment of damages - injunctions
Waterson v Lloyd
summary judgment - part 24 - defamation - comment or fact - meaning - innuendo meaning - honest comment - newspapers - elections
McKeown v Attheraces Ltd (No 2)
Libel - jockey - broadcast interview - allegations of deliberate non-trying - permission to amend defence - adding Reynolds defence - other defences - reporting privilege - comment - justification - mode of trial - preliminary issue - C was a senior jockey who sued D for libel over a broadcast interview which he argued meant that he was a corrut jockey who had repeatedly, for corrupt reasons, stopped horses from winning. The defences were privilege, honest comment and justificaiton. The court held that the trial of the issues raised should be by Judge alone, but that all the issues should be tried together.
Davison v Habeeb & Ors
Defamation – Service out of jurisdiction - Internet blogs – Liability of blog hosting provider for publication at common law – Immunity under Reg. 19 Electronic Commerce (EC Directive) Regulations 2002
Miller v Associated Newspapers Limited (No 2)
Defamation - Libel - Trial of Preliminary Issue on Meaning - Whether words complained of are defamatory - The actual meaning of the words complained of
Tesla Motors Ltd v BBC
Malicious Falsehood - Particulars of Claim - Particulars of Damage - Defamation Act 1952 s. 3
Crookes v Newton
Defamation - Publication - Liability for Hyperlinks - Internet - Supreme Court of Canada
Sleeman v Panchaud
Defamation -- Injunctions - Without Notice Injunctions - Bonnard v Perryman - Practice & Procedure - s.110 Patents Act 1997 - Unauthorised Claim of Patent Rights
Al-Amoudi v Kifle
Libel - assessment of damages
Farid El Diwany v Ministry of Justice
immunity of states - defamation - Lugano convention 2007 - strike out - abuse of process - internet publication
Modi & IMG v Clarke
Appeal - Permission to Appeal - Defamation - Libel - Meaning - Whether the Judge was correct to rule that the words complained of were incapable of bearing any meaning defamatory of either Claimant
Lait v Evening Standard Ltd (CA)
Libel - MPs' expenses - Honest comment - Summary judgment - Justification - Jameel abuse - Summary judgment for D on honest comment - Residual claims dismissed as an abuse - Appeal - Single meaning rule - Alleged breach of rule by Judge - Single meaning rule applies to comment - Judge did not err - Jameel jurisdiction part of law's balancing of rights
Wright v Caan
Defamation - Libel - Meaning - Natural and ordinary meaning - Innuendo meaning - Whether words complained of capable of bearing meanings pleaded - Whether innuendo properly pleaded - Malicious falsehood - Whether words complained of capable of being likely to cause pecuniary damage - Whether claims in malicious falsehood properly pleaded - Application to amend particulars of claim
Thornton v Telegraph Group (No. 4)
Defamation - Malicious Falsehood - offer of amends - malice - knowledge - Defamation Act 1996
Ashcroft v Foley (No 2)
Libel - pleading - justification - honest comment - application for permission to amend - serious allegations - clarity - particularity - relevance - evidential sufficiency - test for pleading justification of serious allegations
Commissioner of Police of the Metropolis v Times Newspapers Ltd
Third party disclosure - breach of confidence - injunction - freedom of expression - fair trial
Caplin v Associated Newspapers Ltd
Defamation - Meaning - Capability - Bane and antidote - CPR PD 53 4.1
Cook v Telegraph Media Group Limited (No 3)
Libel - honest comment - trial of preliminary issues - malice
Modi v Clarke; IMG v Clarke
Defamation - Libel - Costs - Defamation Proceedings Costs Management Scheme - Practice Direction 51D - Whether it is necessary or appropriate under the Scheme to refer a Master or Judge to settlement offers
Bacon v Automattic Inc
Libel - Disclosure - Norwich Pharmacal - Foreign Websites - Respondents outside jurisdiction - Permission to serve application outside jurisdiction - alternative service of Claim Form by e-mail - Jurisdiction to order
Henry v News Group Newspapers Ltd (No 3)
Defamation - aggravated damages - malice - disclosure - case management
White v Southampton University Hospitals NHS Trust
Libel - strike out - summary judgment - absolute privilege - qualified privilege - communications to professional bodies - General Medicial Council - use of material disclosed in the course of proceedings
Awdry Bailey and Douglas v Kordowski
Libel - strike out - summary judgment - publisher - section 1 Defamation Act 1996 - qualified privilege - abuse of process - amendments - online publication
Lewis v Commissioner of Police for the Metropolis
Defamation - Libel - Mode of trial - Senior Courts Act s.69 - Meaning - Amendment - Qualified privilege - Malice - Abuse
Cook v Telegraph Media Group Ltd
Defamation - Part 24 - Justification - Honest comment - Reynolds privilege - Mode of trial
Bowker v RSPB
Defamation – Libel - Defamatory meaning - Mode of trial – Summary judgment - Qualified privilege – Malice – Scientific issues
Baturina v Times Newspapers Ltd (CA)
Defamation – Innuendo meanings – Strict liability – Requirement to plead publishees with knowledge of relevant facts – Liability for third party re-publications - Foreseeability of damage – Jameel abuse of process
Henry v News Group Newspapers Ltd (No 2)
Libel – Non-party disclosure – CPR 31.17 - Public interest as a ground for resisting disclosure
Hunt v Evening Standard Ltd
Libel - Strike out - Justification - Relevance of particulars of justification - Evidence of general bad character - Admissibility - CPR r.3.4(2)
Ashcroft v Foley
Defamation - Libel - Justification - Fair comment - Honest comment - Reynolds Privilege - Strike out
Defamation - Libel - Further information - Whether corporate defendant could be ordered to provide information about its means and ability to pay a costs order
Brady v Norman (No 2) (CA)
Defamation - limitation - section 32A of the Limitation Act 1980 - s.33 Limitation Act 1980
McKeown v Attheraces Ltd
Libel - jockey - disciplinary proceedings - findings of non-trying - appeal - unsuccessful judicial review - broadcast interview with jockey - defence of qualified privilege - defence of honest comment - applications by defendant - summary judgment - striking out - abuse of process - no real and substantial tort - re-litigation abuse - application dismissed
Thornton v Telegraph Media Group Ltd (No 3)
Defamation – Malicious falsehood – Amendment – Application to amend defence to malicious falsehood claim to plead honest comment – Whether amendment should be permitted
Wallis v Meredith
Libel - Abuse of process - Jameel - Publication only to Claimant's solicitor - Reliance on Defendant's refusal to specify further publishees as evidence of further publications
Woodbridge v Stapleton
Libel - Qualified privilege - Malice - Summary judgment - Strike out - Jameel v Dow Jones - Abuse of process - Proportionality
Henry v News Group Newspapers Ltd
Libel – Non-party disclosure – CPR 31.17
Jan Cambridge v Guillermo Makin
Libel - trial - judge alone - justification - qualified privilege - malice - joint tortfeasors - damages