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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
Lait v Evening Standard Ltd (No 2)
Libel - Defamation - Honest comment - Abuse of process - Summary judgment - Meaning
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
Spiller v Joseph
Defamation - Fair comment - Extent to which defence requires that the comment should identify the matter to which it relates
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
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
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
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
Metropolitan International Schools Ltd v Designtechnica Corporation
Defamation - publication on the internet - damages
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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