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McGee v Lewis
Libel – Harassment – Privacy – Judgment in Default – Injunctive relief
Smith v Backhouse
Enforceability and acceptance of undertakings - Settlement
Blackledge v Persons Unknown
Defamation – Libel – Harassment – Data Protection – Quantum – Damages – Injunction – Section 13 order
Gerrard & Anor v (1) ENRC Ltd (2) Diligence International LLC
Covert surveillance – harassment – strike out - legal professional privilege
Wan-Bissaka & Anor v Bentley
CWD v Nevitt & Ors
Privacy - defamation - anonymity - r16 order - reporting restrictions - s11 Contempt of Court Act 1981
BVG v LAR (No 2)
Blackmail - Privacy - Misuse of Private Information - Harassment - Summary Judgment - Final Injunction
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
UUU v BBB
Blackmail - Harassment - Legitimate Expectation of Privacy - ECHR Article 8 - "Without Prejudice" privilege - Anonymity - Private Hearing - Practice Guidance: Interim Non-Disclosure Orders
SOJ v JAO
Injunction - Without Notice - Private Hearing- Anonymity - Blackmail - Data Protection - Privacy - Confidentiality - s12, Human Rights Act 1998
BVC v EWF (No. 2)
Injunction - Privacy - Harassment - jurisdiction - summary judgment
BVG v LAR (No 1)
Blackmail - Privacy - Misuse of Private Information - Harassment - Interim Injunction- Non-Disclosure Application
Sube v News Group Newspapers Ltd & Express Newspapers (No 2)
Defamation - Defamation Act 2013, s. 1 - Serious Harm - Whether Serious Harm Requirement Can Be Met By Taking Indivual Less Serious Imputations Together Cummulatively
Lisle-Mainwaring v Associated Newspapers Ltd (CA)
Civil Procedure - Permission to Appeal - Application for Permission to High Court - Harassment - Media Harassment - Specific Disclosure - Test for Specific Disclosure
Sube v News Group Newspapers Ltd & Express Newspapers
Defamation - Meaning - Preliminary Issue - Serious Harm - s.1 Defamation Act 2013 - Data Protection Act 1998 - Equality Act 2010 - Harassment - Striking Out - Amendment
PML v Person(s) Unknown
Breach of Confidence – Blackmail - Injunction Against Person(s) Unknown – Application for continuation of interim injunction on return date – Derogations from Open Justice
NPV v QEL & ZED
Interim Injunction - Misuse of Private Information - Harassment - Protection from Harassment Act 1997 - Blackmail - Derogations from Open Justice - Anonymity - Private Hearing - Without Notice to the Defendants
Clarkson Plc v Person or Persons Unknown
Breach of Confidence - Injunction Against Person(s) Unknown - Application for Default Judgment and permanent injunction on paper - CPR 23.8 - Derogations from Open Justice
Shakil Khan (formerly JMO) v Tanweer Khan (formerly KTA)
Harassment – Protection from Harassment Act 1997 – Interim Injunction – Anonymity – Freedom of Expression
LJY v Persons Unknown
Privacy - libel - harassment - injunction - blackmail
Lisle-Mainwaring v Associated Newspapers Limited
Harassment - Protection from Harassment Act 1997 - Media Publications - Journalist contact with subject of story - Strike Out - Summary Judgment - Jameel
Richardson v (1) Trinity Mirror (Merseyside) Ltd (2) Neil Docking
Libel – report of court proceedings - qualified privilege – rehabilitation of offenders – privacy – negligence - harassment
Monarch Airlines Ltd v Yaqub
Harassment - Injunction - Protection from Harassment Act 1997
Anglia Research Ltd v Finders Genealogists Ltd
Pre-action disclosure - defamation - harassment - Norwich Pharmacal - serious harm
Brand & Goldsmith v Berki
Summary judgment granted in harassment claim
Cheshire West and Chester Council v Pickthall
Interim Injunction - Protection from Harassment Act 1997- Article 10 - whether to grant an interim injunction to prevent the defendant harassing the claimants and others by publication of allegations and abusive remarks - whether the claimants are likely to succeed at trial in defeating the defendant's defence of preventing or detecting crime
National Farmers’ Union v Tiernan
Contempt of Court - Animal Rights Protesters - Anti-Harassment Injunction -Breach of Injunction - Committal Proceedings - Infringement of Article 6 (right to a fair trial) - availability of legal aid - privilege against self incrimination
Levi v Bates (CA)
Protection from Harassment Act 1997 – targeting – speech torts – intention
CG v Facebook Ireland Ltd
Privacy - harassment - online publication - Facebook - publicising sex offender's identity and whereabouts - injunction - take-down
Kerner v (1) WX and (2) YZ
Harassment – Injunction – Section 12 HRA – Freedom of expression – Practice Guidance
Al Hamadani v Al Khafaf and others
Protection from Harassment Act 1997 – Course of conduct – Joint enterprise - Injunctions - Relief from sanctions – witness statements
QRS v Beach (No. 3)
Harassment - injunction - default judgment - setting aside default judgment
Coulson v Wilby
Protection from Harassment Act 1997 - interim injunction - online publications
QRS v Beach
Harassment – Interim Injunction – online publication – service – Civil Procedure Rules
Ampito Ltd v Pask
Application for an interim injunction in respect of alleged harassment via email, message boards and social media websites.
Merlin Entertainments LPC and others v Peter Cave
Harassment – interim injunction – freedom of expression – Human Rights Act – Bonnard v Perryman
QRS v Beach (No. 2)
Harassment - injunction - default judgment - permanent injunction - anonymity - representative proceedings
Brand v Berki
Harassment - injunction - Article 10 - s12 HRA - balance of convenience
Crawford v Jenkins
Witness Immunity Rule; Harassment; Protection from Harassment Act 1997; Malicious Procurement of Arrest; Complaint to the Police; Whether complaint is immune from suit; Whether the immunity that covers defamation also covers torts of false imprisonment, malicious procurement of arrest and harassment.
Thompson v James
Defamation - Libel- Appeal - Meaning - Whether Blog post bore meaning found by Judge - Whether Rules on Meaning needed to be amended for political speech- Article 10
AVB v TDD
Privacy – Harassment – Breach of Confidence – Breach of Contract - Damages - Injunction
Thompson v James and Carmarthenshire County Council
Libel – justification – honest comment – qualified privilege – malice - public authorities – Article 8 HRA – Derbyshire v Times Newspapers – Part 20 claim - damages
Levi v Bates
Harassment - Protection from Harassment Act - privacy - personal injury - level of damages
Trimingham v Associated Newspapers Ltd
Misuse of private information – Harassment – Breach of statutory duty pursuant to s.85 of the Copyright Designs and Patent Act 1988 – Protection from Harassment Act 1997 - Claim for damages and injunction – Article 8 - Article 10 - Freedom of Expression
Gold v Cox (No.2)
Confidentiality - misuse of private information - interim injunction - adjourned hearing - form of proviso to injunction - burden of proof
Gold v Cox (No.1)
Confidentiality - misuse of private information - interim injunction - procedure
STU v UVW
Misuse of private information - interim injunction - anonymity - open justice
(1) Ting Lan Hong (2) Child KLM v XYZ & Ors
Harassment - Interim Injunction - Application without Notice - Protection from Harassment Act 1997 s.1(1)(a)
RJA v AJR
Privacy - Breach of Confidence - Misuse of Private Information - Derogations from Open Justice - Whether the hearing should take place in private - whether anonymity should be continued
Iqbal v Dean Manson Solicitors
Harassment - Protection from Harassment Act 1997 - Written correspondence - Course of conduct
Sanders v Percy & Ministry of Justice (No 2)
Defamation - Slander - Delay - Strike out - Unless order - Relief from sanction - CPR r.3.9
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
Sanders v Percy & Ministry of Justice
Slander - Strike out - Slander actionable per se - Harrassment - Abuse of process - Jameel abuse
Ferguson v British Gas Trading Ltd
Harassment – Protection From Harassment Act 1997 - Companies - Corporate liability – Threats to customer - Course of conduct – Knowledge – Striking out
Gentoo Group Ltd (formerly Sunderland Housing Co Ltd) v Hanratty
Defamation - Libel - Harassment - Mode of trial - Judge and jury - Prolonged examination of documents - s.69 Supreme Court Act 1981
Ewing v News International & Ors
Vexatious litigant - Leave to bring proceedings - Media organisations - Defamation - Libel - Harassment - Privacy - Chilling effect - Disproportionality
Oxford University & Ors v Broughton & Ors
Harassment - Injunction - Protection from Harassment Act 1997 - Freedom of expression - Freedom of assembly
Smithkline Beecham & Others v Avery & Webb
Injunction - Interim Injunction - Harassment - Protection from Harassment Act
RWE NPower v Carrol & Others
Harassment - Trespass - Injunction - Representative Capacity of Defendant - CPR 19.6(4) - Enforcement of Order - Power of Arrest under Protection from Harassment Act 1997.
Huntingdon Life Sciences Group plc v Stop Huntingdon Animal Cruelty
Harassment - Injunction - Protection from Harassment Act 1997 - Representative Parties - CPR 19.6
CC v AB
Privacy - Confidence - Injunctions - Article 8 - Article 10 - Freedom of Expression - Harassment
Sunderland Housing Company & another v Baines & others
Defamation- Libel - Harassment - Data protection - Injunctive relief - Responsibility for website - Whether injunctive relief should be granted - John Doe order
Merelie v Newcastle Primary Health Care Trust & Others (No.3)
Libel - meaning - malice - justification -Protection from Harassment Act 1997 - Breach of Contract - Personal Injury
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
Howlett v Holding (No. 4)
Harassment - Protection from Harassment Act 1997 - Injunction - Interim injunction - Permanent injunction - Private life - Freedom of expression - Articles 8 & 10 ECHR - Defamatory allegations on banners and leaflets - Covert surveillance
Cray v Hancock & Another
Libel - Publication - Justification - Harassment - Protection from Harassment Act 1997 - Damages - Injunction - Negligence - Breach of Duty - Solicitor
Georgallides v Etzin
Harassment - Protection from Harassment Act 1997 - interim injunction - whether application for injunction for harassment was an attempt to circumvent rule in Bonnard v Perryman - s.12 Human Rights Act 1998- articles 8 and 10 - width of injunction
Crossland v Wilkinson Hardware Stores Ltd
Defamation - Libel - Slander - Malicious Falsehood - Malice - Qualified Privilege - Harassment - Summary Judgment - Part 24
Hipgrave v Jones
Harassment - Injunction - s.3 Protection from Harassment Act 1997 - Standard of proof - "Course of conduct" - Nexus between acts
Merelie v Newcastle Primary Health Care Trust & Others
Defamation - Summary Judgment - Strike Out - Pleading Requirements in Slander cases - Republication - Protection from Harassment Act 1997 - Malicious Falsehood - Human Rights Act 1998 - CPR Part 24 - CPR Part 3.4(2)
Sharma v Jay & Others
Defamation- Harassment- Protection from Harassment Act 1997- Malice- Slander- Application to strike out claim for harassment and plea of malice- CPR Part 3.4 and Part 24.2
Thomas v News Group Newspapers Ltd
Harassment - Protection from Harassment Act 1997 - Media - Freedom of Expression - Article 10 European Convention on Human Rights - Whether articles in newspaper could amount to harassment - Striking Out - CPR Part 3.4(2) - Summary Judgment - CPR Part 24