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Area of work: Defamation and Malicious Falsehood [clear]
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Slander - preliminary issues - publication - defamatory meaning - slanders actionable per se - serious harm - limitation
[2021] EWHC 1805 (QB) - Queen's Bench Division (Winchester District Registry)
Judge HHJ Richard Parkes QC (sitting as a Judge of the High Court)
Application for pre-action disclosure and interim injunction in libel claim
Defamation, Meaning, Repetition Rule, Levels of Meaning, Preliminary Issue
Defamation - Data Protection - inaccuracy - permission to amend
Libel – trial of preliminary issues – meaning – serious harm (common law threshold)
[2014] EWHC 3823 (QB) - High Court (QBD)
Judge Sir Michael Tugendhat (sitting as a Judge of the High Court)
Libel - Data Protection Act 1998 - Norwich Pharmacal order - interim injunction - permission for service out of the jurisdiction
Striking out - cause of action - defamation - privacy
Libel - justification - Reynolds Privilege - s.5 Defamation Act 1952
Summary costs – defamation – costs budgeting – Defamation Proceedings Costs Management Scheme – Practice Direction PD51D – ‘good reason’
[2013] EWCA Civ 19 - Court of Appeal
Judge Moore-Bick LJ, Aikens LJ, Black LJ, Costs Assessor Campbell
Defamation - default judgment - meaning - injunction - damages
(2013) - High Court
Judge HHJ Maloney QC
Summary costs – defamation – costs budgeting – Defamation Proceedings Costs Management Scheme – Practice Direction PD51D – ‘good reason’
David Hunt- Times Newspapers Limited- TNL- defamation- Reynolds privilege- justification- strike out application- Flood v Times Newspapers Ltd [2012] UKSC 11
Defamation - strike out - CPR 3.4 - Justification - Reynolds privilege
Defamation - aggravated damages - malice - disclosure - case management
Libel – Non-party disclosure – CPR 31.17 - Public interest as a ground for resisting disclosure
Libel - Strike out - Justification - Relevance of particulars of justification - Evidence of general bad character - Admissibility - CPR r.3.4(2)
Libel – Non-party disclosure – CPR 31.17
Libel - Striking out - Delay - Non compliance with court orders - CPR Rule 3.4(2)(c) - Litigants in Person - Article 10, ECHR
Libel - Qualified privilege - Meaning - Malice - Summary judgment - Strike out - Abuse of process - Section 5, Defamation Act 1952
Defamation - Abuse of process - No real or substantial tort - Collateral purpose - Qualified privilege - Reynolds privilege
Defamation - Libel - Justiciabillity of claim - Issues of religious doctrine - Regulation or governance of religious groups
Libel - Qualified privilege - Malice - Summary judgment - Amendments
Defamation - Libel - Slander - Application to strike out - Abuse of process
Privacy - Human Rights Act claim for an Article 8 right to reputation - Defamation - Justification - Common sting
[2008] EWCA Civ 1258 - Court of Appeal (Civil Division)
Judge Ward, Sedley and Longmore LJJ
Defamation - Libel - Qualified privilege - Malice - Summary judgment
[2008] EWCA Civ 1336 - Court of Appeal (Civil Division)
Judge Sir Anthony May (President QB), Wilson and Rimer LJJ
Defamation - Slander - Absolute privilege - Qualified privilege - Malice - Default judgment - Setting aside - CPR r.13.3(1)
Defamation - Slander - Adequacy of evidence - Proof of oral publication - Slander actionable without proof of special damage
Defamation - Jurisdiction - Judgments Regulations - Domicile
Defamation - Libel - Meaning - Justification - Substantial Justification - s.5 Defamation Act 1952
Defamation - Libel - Slander - Abuse of process - Issue estoppel - Attempt to reopen matters decided by court of competent jurisdiction
Defamation - Libel - Qualified privilege - s.15 Defamation Act 1996 - Reynolds privilege - Reply to attack
Defamation - Libel - Cost-capping orders - Conditional Fee Agreements - After-the-event insurance policies - CPR Rule 3.1 - CPR Part 26 Practice Direction
Defamation - Libel - Allegation of being a 'terrorist organisation' - Internet publication - Justification - Qualified privilege
Defamation - Libel - Slander - Applications to strike out -Meaning - Justification - Fair comment - Reply to attack - Qualified privilege - Malice - Plea of general bad reputation
Defamation - Libel - permission to appeal - Limitation Act 1980 sections 4A, 32, 35 - publication - republication - costs
Defamation- Slander- Summary judgment - Abuse of process -Qualified privilege -Malice- Consent
Defamation - libel - jurisdiction - whether the claimant could sue the defendant in this jurisidiction
Defamation - Libel - Qualified privilege - Striking out - CPR 3.4(2) - Summary Judgment - CPR Part 24
Defamation - Libel - Qualified privilege - Malice - Withdrawal of malice from jury
[2003] EWCA Civ 102; The Times, 21 Feb 2003 - Court of Appeal
Judge Simon Brown & Sedley LJ and Jacob J
Costs - application for contributors to fighting fund to pay costs of successful defendant - discretion as to costs under Supreme Court Act 1981 s 51
[2003] QB 1175; [2003] 2 WLR 128 - Court of Appeal
Judge Simon Brown, Chadwick and Hale LJJ
Defamation- Libel - Injunctive Relief- Asset freezing order
Defamation – libel - justification - fair comment – test for permission to appeal against trial findings of judge
06/07/2000 - Court of Appeal
Judge Morritt & May LJJ, Forbes J
Defamation - libel action over allegations on television of corruption by Member of Parliament - parliamentary privilege - waiver under section 13 of Defamation Act 1996 - trial requiring investigation of same issues as Parliamentary Commissioner for Standards - whether libel action involved breach of parliamentary privilege and should be stayed.
[2001] AC 395 - House of Lords
Judge Lords Browne-Wilkinson, Steyn, Cooke, Hope and Clyde
Defamation - libel - interim injunction - justification - whether motive of publisher relevant
[1998] QB 726; [1998] 2 WLR 742; [1998] 1 All ER 853 - Court of Appeal
Judge Auld, Slade, Staughton LLJ