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R (On the application of Guardian News and Media Ltd) v City of Westminster Magistrates’ Court
Extradition proceedings – Criminal proceedings - Disclosure to media of documents referred to in open court – Case stated – Judicial review
Clift v Slough Borough Council (CA)
Defamation - Libel - Qualified privilege - Local Authority duties - Public Authorities - Anti-social behaviour - Violent Persons Register - Article 8 - Necessity and proportionality of publication - Human Rights Act 1998
CDE v MGN Ltd
Privacy - Breach of confidence - Interim injunction - Article 8 ECHR - Right to private life - Article 10 ECHR - Freedom of expression - Public interest - Balancing exercise - Anonymity of parties
Lait v Evening Standard Ltd (No 2)
Libel - Defamation - Honest comment - Abuse of process - Summary judgment - Meaning
ABC Ltd v Y
Court file - 'Sealing' file - Form of order sealing file - Access to documents - Non-party - CPR 5.4C - Use in other litigation - Threshold requirements
Hayden & Anor v Charlton; Hayden & Anor v Carver
Libel - Striking out - Delay - Non compliance with court orders - CPR Rule 3.4(2)(c) - Litigants in Person - Article 10, ECHR
XJA v News Group Newspapers Ltd
Injunction – Anonymity order – Privacy – Misuse of private information – Open justice – Articles 8, 10 ECHR
KGM v News Group Newspapers Ltd
Privacy - injunction - public interest - threat to publish
Spiller v Joseph
Defamation - Fair comment - Extent to which defence requires that the comment should identify the matter to which it relates
R (on the application of Secretary of State for the Home Department) v HM Coroner for Inner West London
Open justice - Coroners inquests - Private hearings - National security - Terrorism - Meaning of "the public" in r.17 Coroners Rules 1984 - s.8(3) Coroners Act 1988
Terluk v Berezovsky (CA)
Defamation - Adjournment – Refusal of adjournment – Delay – Legal representation – Fair trial – Litigant in person - Right to jury trial - Waiver
Daniels v BBC
Defamation - Meaning - Summary judgment - Malice - Civil restraint order
KJH v HGF
Privacy - Interim injunction - Anonymisation - Blackmail
Lykiardopulo v Lykiardopulo
Ancillary relief - Compulsory disclosure - Litigation misconduct - Publicity of judgment - Anonymisation
JIH v News Group Newspapers (No 2)
Injunction - Anonymity order - Privacy - Misuse of private information - Open justice - Articles 8, 10 ECHR
Donald v Ntuli
Privacy - Injunctions - Arts 8 and 10 ECHR - Anonymity of parties - Non-disclosure of fact of injunction
Cairns v Modi
Libel – Publication – Twitter – Preliminary issue – Substantial tort – Abuse of process
Ernst & Young v Coomber
Defamation - Summary disposal - Damages - Civil Restraint Order
Ifedha v Archant Regional Ltd
Libel - Stay - Application to lift stay - Strike out - CPR r.3.4(2) - Reasonable grounds for bringing claim - Abuse of process - Summary judgment - Qualified privilege - s.15, Defamation Act 1996 - Report of council press release - Justification
JIH v News Group Newspapers Ltd
Injunction - Anonymity order - Privacy - Misuse of private information - Open justice - Article 8 ECHR - Article 10 ECHR – Consent orders
Ezeugo v Hendon Magistrates Court
Contempt - Criminal contempt - s.12 (1) Contempt of Court Act 1981 - Wilfully interrupting court proceedings - Appeal conviction and sentence
McLaughlin v London Borough of Lambeth
Defamation – Human Rights Act 1998 – Arts 8 and 10 ECHR - Striking out – Rule in Derbyshire v Times Newspapers – collateral purpose – Jameel abuse of process
Ronaldo v Telegraph Media Limited
Defamation - Libel - Abuse of process - Whether action should be struck out in accordance with Jameel v Dow Jones - Section 12 Defamation Act 1952 - Actions against different publishers - Whether settlement with one makes it an abuse to continue against the other
Gray v UVW
Privacy - Injunction - Anonymity - Undertakings - ECHR, Articles 8, 10
Saaristo v Finland
Freedom of Expression - Article 10, European Convention on Human Rights - Privacy - Conviction for violation of privacy - Publication of private information relating to extra-marital affair between political candidate and aide - Fine, damages and costs awarded - Whether necessary in a democratic society
AMM v HXW
Privacy - Interim injuction - Blackmail - Anonymity - European Convention on Human Rights, Articles 8, 10
Driza v Mirror Group Newspapers Ltd
Libel - privacy - limitation period - publication - abuse of process
Farrall v Kordowski
Libel - Interim injunction - Freedom of expression - s.12 Human Rights Act 1998 - Article 10, ECHR - 'Solicitors from Hell' website
BBC v HarperCollins Publishers Limited
Interim injunction – Confidential information - Human Rights Act 1998, s.12(3) – Likelihood of establishing at trial that publication should not be allowed – Public domain
Metropolitan International Schools Ltd v Designtechnica Corporation
Defamation - publication on the internet - damages
Sanoma Uitgevers BV v Netherlands
Human rights - Freedom of expression - Article 10, European Convention on Human Rights - Protection of journalistic sources - Investigation of crime - Photographs
Islam Expo Ltd v The Spectator (1828) Ltd & Pollard
Defamation - Libel - Reference - Context - Hyperlinks - Whether, in context, words capable of referring to claimant in pleaded defamatory meaning
Peacock v MGN Ltd (Costs)
Defamation - Libel - Costs - Conditional fee agreement - Staged success fee - Whether amount of success fee sought reasonable - Proportionality - Whether overall fees claimed reasonable
Paton v Poole BC
Privacy - Article 8 ECHR - Regulation of Investigatory Powers Act 2002 - Surveillance - Local Education Authority - Application to School - Necessity - Proportionality
Kaschke v Gray & Hilton (No 2)
Libel - Abuse of process - Strike out - Damages award out of proportion to time and costs
Flood v Times Newspapers Ltd (CA)
Libel - Reynolds privilege - Public interest - Responsible journalism - Continued internet publication following receipt of new information - Appellate jurisdiction
Henderson v The London Borough of Hackney & The Learning Trust
Libel - Qualified privilege - Meaning - Malice - Summary judgment - Strike out - Abuse of process - Section 5, Defamation Act 1952
Mariapori v Finland
Defamation - Freedom of expression - Article 10, ECHR
Fiddes v Channel Four Television Corporation & Ors (No 2) (CA)
Libel - Mode of trial - Jury or judge alone - Prolonged examination of documents - Convenience of trial with jury - Discretion - s.69 Senior Courts Act 1981
Secretary of State for the Home Department v AP (No 2)
Control orders - identification - threat of violence - private life - Article 3 - Article 8 - anonymity
Khader v Aziz & Ors (CA)
Defamation – Slander - Strike out - Summary judgment - Abuse of process – Qualified privilege – Reply to attack -Skeleton argument
Thornton v Telegraph Media Group Ltd (No 2)
Defamation – Libel – Summary judgment - Determination of meaning – Whether words capable of bearing defamatory meaning – Threshold of seriousness
R (on the application of Harper and Johncox) v Aldershot Magistrates Court
Reporting restrictions - Magistrates court - Application for order banning publication of defendant police officers home address - Order refused - Judicial review
Ajinomoto Sweeteners Europe SAS v Asda Stores Ltd (No 2) (CA)
Malicious falsehood - Meaning - Preliminary Issue - Single-meaning rule
Brady v Norman (No 2)
Libel - Slander - Limitation period - Disapplication of limitation period - s.32A Limitation Act 1980 - Appeal
Hays Plc v Hartley
Defamation - Abuse of process - No real or substantial tort - Collateral purpose - Qualified privilege - Reynolds privilege
HH Sant Baba Jeet Singh Ji Maharaj v Eastern Media Group & Anor
Defamation - Libel - Justiciabillity of claim - Issues of religious doctrine - Regulation or governance of religious groups
Sanders v Percy & Ministry of Justice (No 2)
Defamation - Slander - Delay - Strike out - Unless order - Relief from sanction - CPR r.3.9
Mireskandari v Associated Newspapers Limited (No 3)
Defamation - Application for specific disclosure and/or further information to support allegation of judicial bias
Al Rawi v Security Service
Civil procedure - Civil evidence - 'Closed material procedure' - Disclosure - Public interest immunity - Special advocates - Civil Procedure Rules - National security
Dee v Telegraph Media Group Ltd (No 2)
Libel - Summary judgment - Defamatory meaning - Whether articles in newspaper to be read together - Justification - Fair comment - Whether real prospect of rebutting defences
Bowman v MGN Ltd
Libel - Offer to make amends - Defamation Act 1996, ss.2 - 4 - Compensation - Costs - Rejection of settlement offers
TUV v Persons Unknown
Ex parte injunctions - Privacy - "Persons unknown" - Service on media defendants
Fulham FC v West Ham United
Arbitration - FA Premier League - previous Award between different parties - admissibility - confidentiality -publication of determination
British Chiropractic Association v Singh (CA)
Libel – Fair comment (‘honest opinion’) – Whether words fact or comment/opinion
Miller v Associated Newspapers Limited
Defamation - Libel - Defamatory meaning - CPR 53 PD 4.1 - Whether words complained of are capable of bearing the meanings pleaded in the Particulars of Claim - Whether words complained of are capable of bearing any meaning defamatory of the Claimant
Lait v Evening Standard Ltd
Libel - Meaning - Aggravated damages
Fiddes v Channel 4 Television Corporation & Ors (CA)
Defamation - Civil Evidence - Disclosure - Duty of Search - Electronic Documents - Deleted Emails - Restoration of Back up tapes - CPR Practice Direction 31
Google France, Google Inc. v Louis Vuitton Malletier
Trade Marks - Infringement - Internet - Search engine - Google 'AdWord' service - Whether operation of service infringed trade marks - Article 14 of Directive 2000/31 - Whether service within hosting exemption
Bridle v Williams
Defamation - Slander - Strike out - Summary judgment - Qualified privilege - Malice - Abuse of process
McKeown v British Horseracing Authority
Disciplinary proceedings - jurisdiction - evidence - expert evidence - bias - appeal - sports law
Berezovsky v Russian State Television & Another (No 2)
Defamation - Libel – Liability for publication – Justification – Damages – Joint tortfeasors
A v B (EAT)
Anonymity - Jurisdiction to anonymise - Employment Appeal Tribunal - Freedom of expression - Restricted reporting orders
Mohamed, R (on the application of) v Secretary of State for Foreign & Commonwealth Affairs (No 2)
Amendments - Confidentiality - Draft Judgments - Publication
Mireskandari v Associated Newspapers Ltd (No 2)
Media Law - Defamation - Libel - Disclosure - CPR 31.22 - Corrective witness statement to explain change of stance - CPR 18 - Appeal from decision of Master whether to Order the Claimant to produce the original of his United States Security Card
Fedchenko v Russia (No 2)
Defamation - Human rights - Article 10, European Convention on Human Rights
Kubaszewski v Poland
Defamation - Human Rights - Article 10, ECHR
Terry (previously ‘LNS’) v Persons Unknown
Interim injunctions - Privacy - Confidence - Articles 6, 8 and 10, ECHR - Human Rights Act, s 12(3) - CPD25PD
R v Sheppard & Whittle
Public order offences - Racially inflammatory material - Racial hatred - Internet - Publication to a section of the public - Web server outside jurisdiction - Public Order Act 1986
Re SC (Children) sub nom SC v HC
Contempt - Orders - Penal notices - Disclosure - Foreign lawyers
Guardian News and Media Ltd & Ors in HM Treasury v Ahmed & Ors
Anonymity orders - Article 8 & 10 - Freedom of expression - Privacy - Reputation - Reporting restrictions
In re Guardian News and Media Ltd
Human rights - private life - reputation - freedom of expression - persons designated as suspected terrorists - challenge to designation - anonymity orders - press challenge - application to lift orders - correct approach
Doncaster Metropolitan Borough Council v BBC
Injunctions - Private and confidential information - Threat to publish - CPR PD 25 - Human Rights Act 1998, s 12
The Higher Education Funding Council for England v The Information Commissioner & Guardian News and Media Ltd
Freedom of Information Act, s 41 - Exempt information - Confidential information - Information Tribunal - Appeal from decision of Information Commissioner
Gillan & Quinton v UK
Terrorism Act 2000 - ss.44 and 45 - Stop and search powers - Whether disproportionate interference with Article 8 ECHR - Right to respect for privacy - Whether in accordance with the law
Re Ward; sub nom Dr A & Others v Ward & Ward
Care Proceedings - Anonymity - Expert witnesses - Contra mundum injunctions - Publication of information relating to the proceedings - s.12 Administration of Justice Act 1960 - Article 8 - Privacy