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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
Blackledge v Persons Unknown
Defamation – Libel – Harassment – Data Protection – Quantum – Damages – Injunction – Section 13 order
Butt v Secretary of State for the Home Department
Defamation – meaning – honest opinion
Brown v Bower & Another
Defamation
Butt v Secretary of State for the Home Department
Defamation - meaning - honest opinion
Barron v Collins
Defamation – slander - libel - offer of amends – s3(5) Defamation Act 1996 – political libels – aggravating conduct during the offer of amends procedure
Begg v BBC
Libel – Justification – Meaning - Broadcasting – Islam – Extremism
Bewry v Reed Elsevier UK Ltd (CA)
Defamation - Libel - Internet publication - Limitation period - Disapplication - s.32A Limitation Act 1980 - Jameel abuse
Building Register Ltd v Weston
Defamation - libel - res judicata - abuse of process - amendment to defence - justification - honest comment - case management conference
Briggs v Jordan
Libel – meaning – natural and ordinary meaning – innuendo meaning – breach of confidence – misuse of private information – strike out – Jameel abuse
Bento v Chief Constable of Bedfordshire Police
Bento- Chief Constable of Bedfordshire Police- CPS- murder- press release- defamation- justification- qualified privilege- informing the public- reply to attack- trial- damages award
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
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
Brady v Norman (No 2) (CA)
Defamation - limitation - section 32A of the Limitation Act 1980 - s.33 Limitation Act 1980
Brady v Norman (No 2)
Libel - Slander - Limitation period - Disapplication of limitation period - s.32A Limitation Act 1980 - Appeal
Bowman v MGN Ltd
Libel - Offer to make amends - Defamation Act 1996, ss.2 - 4 - Compensation - Costs - Rejection of settlement offers
British Chiropractic Association v Singh (CA)
Libel – Fair comment (‘honest opinion’) – Whether words fact or comment/opinion
Bridle v Williams
Defamation - Slander - Strike out - Summary judgment - Qualified privilege - Malice - Abuse of process
Berezovsky v Russian State Television & Another (No 2)
Defamation - Libel – Liability for publication – Justification – Damages – Joint tortfeasors
Bloom v Robinson-Millar
Defamation - Libel - Harassment - Trial of action - Neighbour dispute - Publication of letters over a long period - Whether course of conduct was harassment of claimant - Damages
Bray v Deutsche Bank AG (No 2)
Libel - Part 24 - Publication - Successive Part 24 applications - Malice - qualified privilege - preliminary issues
Briscoe Mitchell v Hodder & Stoughton Ltd & Anr, Associated Newspapers Limited (non-party)
Defamation action – Witness summons – Non-party disclosure – CPR 31.17
Brady v Norman
Defamation - Libel - Qualified privilege - Defamatory meaning - Internet publication - Trade journal
Berezovsky v Russian State Television & Another
Defamation - Libel - Foreign broadcaster - Jurisdiction - Fair trial - Defence not justiciable - Anonymity of sources - s.10 Contempt of Court Act 1981
Bray v Deutsche Bank AG
Defamation - Libel - Qualified privilege - Malice - Anonymity of witnesses
Blackwell v Bates & Ors
Libel - Defences - Qualified privilege - Reply to attack - Fair Comment - Meaning - Malice
Burstein v Associated Newspapers Ltd
Defamation - Libel - Meaning - Fair Comment - Striking Out - Summary Judgment - CPR Part 24
Boehringer Ingelheim Ltd & Others v Vetplus Ltd (CA)
Prior restraint – Interim Injunctions – Human Rights Act section 12(3) – European Convention on Human Rights Article 10 – Comparative Advertising – Libel – Malicious Falsehood – Trade Marks
Buckley v Dalziel
Defamation - Absolute privilege - Qualified privilege - Witness statement provided to police officer - Limitation - s.32A Limitation Act 1980
Boehringer Ingelheim Ltd & Others v Vetplus Ltd (ChD)
Prior restraint – Interim Injunctions – Human Rights Act section 12(3) – European Convention on Human Rights Article 10 – Comparative Advertising – Libel – Malicious Falsehood – Trade Marks
Barrett v Rosenthal
Libel – Liability of Website Providers - Immunity under US law
Baker v Maynard
Libel - Internet publication - Qualified privilege - Common interest - Whether Defendant in existing relationship with members of closed website or an officious bystander - Whether Defendant could rely on fair comment defence solely in mitigation of damages
Brasilier v France
Human rights - Freedom of expression - Article 10 ECHR - Defamation - Election candidates in dispute - Allegations of ballot rigging, fraud and theft - One French franc in damages awarded - Importance of open political debate - Basis in truth - Sanction disproportionate
Bunt v Tilley & Others
Libel - Internet Service Providers - Liability at common law - Electronic Commerce (EC Directive) Regulations 2002 - s.1 Defamation Act 1996 - Abuse of process
Beckham & Another v News Group Newspapers Ltd
Libel - Specific Disclosure - CPR Part 31.12 - Correct Test to be Applied
Bangoura v Washington Post & Others
Libel - Internet - Jurisdiction - Forum - Publication - Damage
Busuioc v Moldova
Human Rights - Defamation - Libel - Article - ECHR - Freedom of Expression - Damages awarded against journalist for defamation - Whether interference with Art 10 right prescribed by law - Whether interference necessary in a democratic society
Blake v Associated Newspapers Limited
Defamation- Libel - Civil Procedure- Ecclesiastical- Human Rights- Arts 6, 10 - Stay of Proceedings- Justiciability - whether deference to religious doctrine outweighs right of access to the courts
Bennett & Another v BBC & Another
Defamation - libel - particulars of justification - whether the defendant could justify the common sting of the whole article when the Claimant only complained about parts of it
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.
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
Best v Charter Medical of England Ltd
Defamation - Slander - Requirement to set out precise words used in Particulars of Claim - Whether Claimant had pleaded words with sufficient precision - Whether Claimant could seek further information from the Defendant as to the precise words used - CPR Part 53 PD 2.4
Berezovsky v Forbes Inc & Michaels (No.2)
Defamation - Libel - Meaning - Justification of lesser meaning - Article 10 - Human Rights Act 1998 - s.5 Defamation Act 1952
Baldwin v Rusbridger
Defamation - Libel - Republication - Qualified Privilege - Reynolds - Reply to attack - Fair Comment - Freedom of Expression - Article 10 - European Convention on Human Rights
Branson v Bower
Defamation - libel - fair comment - defendant publishing article about claimant's motives for bidding for National Lottery franchise - whether words complained of comment or statements of fact - judge ruling that words were comment
Burstein v Times Newspapers Ltd
Defamation - Libel - Damages - Evidence in mitigation of damages - rule in Scott v Sampson - Summary disposal under s.8 Defamation Act 1996
Berezovsky v Forbes Inc & Michaels
Defamation - Jurisdiction - Choice of Forum - Forum Non Conveniens - Claimants' connection with and reputation in England and Wales - Admittance of new evidence
Basham v Gregory (No.2)
Defamation - Libel - Meaning - Justification - Defamation Act 1952, s.5 - Summing up - Misdirection - Criticism of counsel - Retrial
Brady v United Kingdom
Human Rights- Defamation - Libel - malicious falsehood - legal aid - mental patients - access to court - right to private life - inhuman and degrading treatment
Broxton v McClelland (No.2)
Defamation - Libel - conduct of jury trial
Basham v Gregory
Defamation - Late Amendments - Justification
Broxton v McClelland
Defamation - libel - abuse of process - collateral purpose - striking out
Brent Walker Group Plc v Time Out Ltd
Defamation - fair comment on privileged statement - striking out of defence - what facts to be proved for valid defence
Barnett v Crozier
Defamation - settlement with one of two defendants - statement in open court - objection by remaining defendant -discretion to permit