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Area of work: Defamation and Malicious Falsehood [clear]
Year: 2005 [clear]
Human rights - Freedom of expression - Art 10, ECHR - Defamation - Meaning - Criminal offence - Public interest/public figure - Photograph - Injunction
Applications Nos. 66298/01 and 15653/02 - European Court of Human Rights
Judge Bratza (President), Bonello, Pellonpää, Traja, Steiner, Garlicki, Borrego Borrego (Judges), Elens Passos, RegistrarJJ
Defamation - Libel - Meaning - Preliminary Issue - Mode of Trial - s.69(1) Supreme Court Act 1981 - prolonged investigation of documents - s.69(3) - discretion - s.69(4) - trials of separate issues
Defamation - Libel - Injunction - Costs
Defamation - Libel - Qualified privilege - s.15 Defamation Act 1996 - Reynolds privilege - Reply to attack
Costs - Detailed assessment - Defamation - Proportionality - Conditional Fee Agreements - Success fees
Human rights - Freedom of expression - Art 10, ECHR - - Newspaper publication - Criticism of public appointment - Rival paper criticising article - Defamation - Libel - Whether sanctions necessary
Application no. 75088/01 - European Court of Human Rights
Judge J-P Costa (President), Baka, Cabral Barreto, Turmen, Butkeyvich, Jociene, Popovich (Judges), Naismith (Registrar)
Defamation - Libel - Cost-capping orders - Conditional Fee Agreements - After-the-event insurance policies - CPR Rule 3.1 - CPR Part 26 Practice Direction
Defamation - Breach of contract - Negligent misstatement - Summary Judgment - CPR Part 24 - Abuse of process - Fraud and dishonesty - Judicial impartiality - Justification - Qualified privilege
Defamation - Libel - Human Rights - Political Speech -Preliminary Issue - Qualified Privilege - Election communications - s.10 Defamation Act 1952 - s.3 Human Rights Act 1998
Defamation - Malicious falsehood - Justification - Malice - Misdirection - Withdrawing malice from jury - Damages - Fiduciary duty - Breach of confidence
[2005] EWCA Civ 1302; [2006] 1 All ER 571; The Times, 29 November 2005 - Court of Appeal (Civil Division)
Judge Auld, Laws and Sedley LJJ
Libel - Publication - Justification - Harassment - Protection from Harassment Act 1997 - Damages - Injunction - Negligence - Breach of Duty - Solicitor
Defamation - Libel - Stay of proceedings - concurrent GMC disciplinary proceedings - concurrent libel proceedings - Article 6 - Right to trial within a reasonable time
Human rights - Freedom of expression - Art 10, ECHR - Defamation - Value judgment - Sufficient factual basis - Politician - Proportionality
[2006] EMLR 152 - European Court of Human Rights
Judge Loucaides (President), Tulkens, Kovler, Steiner, Hajiyev, Spielmann, Jebens (Judges), and Nielsen (Registrar)
Costs - Conditional Fee Agreements - Success Fee - Article 10 - Access to Justice - Article 6 - Proportionality - Cost-capping
[2005] UKHL 61; [2005] 1 WLR 3394; [2005] 4 All ER 793; [2006] EMLR 1; The Times, 21 October 2005 - House of Lords
Judge Lords Nicholls, Hoffmann, Hope, Carswell, Baroness Hale
Libel - Specific Disclosure - CPR Part 31.12 - Correct Test to be Applied
Defamation - Libel - Meaning - Trial of a Preliminary Issue on Meaning - the natural and ordinary meaning of the words complained of
Human rights - Freedom of expression - Art 10, ECHR - Defamation - Libel - Freedom of the press - Reporting statements of others - Duty to prove - Necessary in a democratic society
Application No. 11039/02 - European Court of Human Rights
Judge Bratza (President), Casadevall, Bonello, Maruste, Pavlovschi, Garlicki, Borrego Borrego (Judges), and O’Boyle, Section Registrar
Defamation - Slander - Qualified privilege - Malice - Constitutional guarantee of freedom of expression - Level of damages
[2005] UKPC 36; [2006] 1 AC 427; [2006] 2 WLR 39 - Privy Council
Judge Lords Nicholls, Hoffmann, Rodger, Walker and Baroness Hale
Defamation - Libel - Publication - Preliminary Issue - Whether the First Defendant was responsible in law for the publication of a translation of a Book written by him for sale in the United States
Libel - Internet - Jurisdiction - Forum - Publication - Damage
16/09/2005 - Ontario Court of Appeal
Judge McMurtry CJO, Armstrong & Lang JJA
Libel - Security for Costs - Claimants resident in the Sudan - Enforcement of costs - CPR Part 25.12 - CFAs - After the event insurance (ATE) - Discretion
Libel - Justification - Reynolds - Striking Out - Summary Judgment - CPR Part 24
[2005] EWCA Civ 1007; [2005] EMLR 797 - Court of Appeal
Judge Brooke, Tuckey & Arden LJJ
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
Adjournments - Defamation - Summary Judgment - Appeal -Absence of party at hearing - Publication - Website
[2005] EWCA Civ 824 - Court of Appeal (Civil Division)
Judge Ward LJ, Sedley LJ, and Longmore LJ
Defamation - Slander - Qualified privilege - ss.13 and 14 Data Protection Act 1998 - Civil Procedure - CPR Part 3.4 - CPR Part 24 - CPR Part 52(3)(6)
Defamation - Libel - Case Management Conference - Mode of Trial - Application for trial by Judge alone - s.69 Supreme Court Act 1981 - Application for meaning to be tried as a preliminary issue.
Defamation - Libel - Damages - Ireland - Safeguards against disproportionately high jury awards at first instance and on appeal - Article 10
(2006) 42 EHRR 1024 - European Court of Human Rights
Judge Ress P & Cabral Barreto, Caflisch, Turmen, Zupanèiè, Hedigan & Traja JJ
Defamation - Libel - Statutory qualified privilege - Justification - Grounds to inquire - Case management - Striking out
Defamation - Libel - Meaning - Common sting - Justification - Reynolds privilege - Meaning - Justification - Striking out - Case management
Defamation - Libel - Offer of Amends - Assessment of Compensation under <A
href="http://www.bailii.org/uk/legis/num_act/da199699/s3.html"
target=_blank>s.3(5) Defamation Act 1996
Defamation - Libel - Offer of Amends - Assessment of Compensation under <A
href="http://www.bailii.org/uk/legis/num_act/da199699/s3.html"
target=_blank>s.3(5) Defamation Act 1996 - 'Burstein ' plea - Whether mitigation or aggravation
Libel - Justification - Video evidence - Privilege against self-incrimination - CFAs
Defamation - Libel - Solicitors - Qualified Privilege - Protection of client's interests - Malice - Summary Judgment - CPR Part 24
Defamation - Libel - Judgment in default - Summary disposal - ss.8-10 Defamation Act 1996 - Remedies - Damages - Injunction - Declaration of falsity
Defamation - Libel - Claim dismissed following trial of the action - Defence of justification upheld - Whether costs should follow the event - Whether costs should be assessed on standard or indemnity basis - Whether interest should be awarded - Whether Claimant should have permission to appeal
Defamation - libel - justification – trial of the action - meaning- whether the plea of justification succeeded
Defamation - Libel - Slander - Malicious Falsehood - Malice - Qualified Privilege - Harassment - Summary Judgment - Part 24
Defamation - abuse of process - lack of evidence from Claimant - CFA agreements - inference of desire for vindication - summary judgment - mode of trial
Defamation - Libel - Costs capping - Conditional Fee Agreements
Costs - Defamation - Conditional Fee Agreements - Settlement on terms not amounting to 'win' - Termination - Entitlement of solicitor to basic charges
Defamation - Libel - Appeal - Summary disposal - Sections 8 to 10 Defamation Act 1996 - Website publication to the world at large - Whether claim could be an abuse of process -
Jameel v Dow Jones
[2005] EWCA Civ 288 - Court of Appeal (Civil Division)
Judge Ward LJ, Sedley LJ, and Longmore LJ
Defamation - libel - corporate claimant - aggravated damages - further articles repeating (in part) sting of original libel
Defamation – Libel – Mode of trial – Prolonged examination of documents – s.69 Supreme Court Act 1981
Libel - Unavailability of Legal Aid - Fair Trial - Corporations - Right to Sue - Burden of Proof - Damages - Article 6 - Article 10
[2005] EMLR 314 - European Court of Human Rights
Judge Pellonpää (President); Bratza, Strážnická, Casadevall, Maruste, Pavlovschi, and Garlicki
Libel - Stay of Proceedings - Criminal Inquiry
Defamation - Libel - Human Rights - Civil procedure - Civil evidence - evidence by video link - hearsay
[2005] UKHL 10; [2005] 1 WLR 637; [2005] 1 All ER 945; [2005] EMLR 287; The Times, 11 Feb 2005; The Independent, 16 Feb 2005 - House of Lords
Judge Lord Nicholls of Birkenhead, Lord Slynn of Hadley, Lord Hope of Craighead, Baroness Hale of Richmond, Lord Carswell
Defamation - libel - qualified privilege - malice - Human Rights - Article 8 ECHR - s. 7 & s. 8 Human Rights Act 1998
Defamation - Libel – Reynolds privilege – Relevance of Bonnick v Morris - Presumption of damage – Presumption of falsity
[2005] EWCA Civ 74; [2005] QB 904; [2005] 2 WLR 1577; [2005] EMLR 377; [2005] 4 All ER 356; The Times 14 Feb 2005; The Independent 9 Feb 2005 - Court of Appeal
Judge Lord Phillips MR, Sedley and Parker LJJ
Defamation - libel – Internet publication - presumption of damage - identification of Claimant – no real and substantial tort/abuse of process
[2005] EWCA Civ 75; [2005] QB 946; [2005] 2 WLR 1614; [2005] EMLR 353; The Times 14 Feb 2005; The Independent 10 Feb 2005 - Court of Appeal
Judge Lord Phillips MR, Sedley and Parker LJJ
Defamation - libel - justification - permission to amend - whether words complained of were capable of Chase level 3 meaning - whether Defendant can rely on Claimant's non-disclosure of relevant documents and/or misrepresentation of their content - lies probative of guilt - admission by conduct