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Niall Horan v Express Newspapers
libel - meaning - capability - CPR Part 53 PD 4.1(1)
Mir Shakil-Ur-Rahman v ARY Network Limited & Fayaz Ghafoor
Defamation – Trial of preliminary issues – Meaning – Fact or opinion - Chase levels - TV broadcasts – Foreign language (Urdu)
Her Majesty’s Attorney General v The Conde Nast Publications Ltd
Contempt
Weston v Bates & Leeds United Football Club
Libel – delay – abuse of process – appeal – striking out – civil procedure
Richardson v Facebook; Richardson v Google (UK) Ltd
Defamation – privacy – identity of defendant - definition of publisher – liability of ISPs
Brand & Goldsmith v Berki
Summary judgment granted in harassment claim
KL and NN v Sunday Newspapers Limited
Open Justice - anonymity - civil proceedings
JPH v XYZ (No 2)
Privacy - injunction - revenge porn - anonymity - Article 8 ECHR - Article 10 ECHR - unless order - debarring order
Pinard-Byrne v Linton
Privy Council Appeal from Court of Appeal of the Eastern Caribbean Supreme Court (Commonwealth of Dominica) - Defamation - Libel - Reynolds qualified privilege/ public interest defence - Whether the Court of Appeal was wrong to have overturned the first instance judge's rejection of the defence
JPH v XYZ (No 1)
Privacy - without notice injunction - "revenge porn" - disclosure order - service by email
Appleton v Gallagher
Prohibitions on reporting the financial remedy proceedings between Liam Gallagher and Nicole Appleton were continued by the High Court until the Family Court judgment, at which time the issue could be revisited.
Brett Wilson LLP v Persons Unknown
Libel - s. 1(2) Defamation Act 2013 - serious financial loss - damages - injunction - summary disposal
Lachaux v Independent Print Ltd, Evening Standard Ltd, AOL (UK) Ltd
Libel – Serious Harm – Section 1, Defamation Act 2013 – the rule in Dingle – evidence – reference – meaning – Jameel abuse – preliminary issues
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
His Highness Prince Moulay Hicham Ben Abdullah Al Alaoui of Morocco v Elaph Publishing Limited
Defamation - Data Protection - inaccuracy - permission to amend
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
Sloutsker v Romanova
Defamation - Assessment of damages for publications online - whether to grant an injunction against a defendant overseas- whether to proceed in the defendant's absence- whether the court needed to rule on meaning where default judgment had been entered
In the matter of an application by JR38 for Judicial Review (Northern Ireland)
Article 8 – reasonable expectation of privacy – children – crime – police – Northern Ireland – publication of private information – data protection
Rhodes (previously “MLA”) v OPO
Elements of the tort of Wilkinson v Downton - interim injunction - article 10 - freedom of expression - whether Wilkinson v Downton should operate to prohibit a writer from telling a true autobiographical account of his upbringing which risks causing psychological harm to his son
Associated Newspapers v Murray
Libel
Rada-Ortiz v Espinosa-Vadillo
Harassment - websites - injunction - justification
Lachaux v AOL UK
Libel – Defamation Act 2013 – serious harm – trial of preliminary issue – meaning – evidence – costs budgeting – proportionality
Vidal-Hall v Google Inc (CA)
Misuse of Private Information – Data Protection Act 1998 – Breach of Confidence – service out of the jurisdiction – EU Charter of Fundamental Rights – distress
R (Evans) v HM Attorney General (Supreme Court)
Prince Charles letters - Freedom of Information Act 2000 – Environmental Information Regulations 2004 – Constitutional Law – Executive Veto – EU Charter of Fundamental Rights
YXB v TNO
Footballer refused injunction over alleged blackmail plot
Rufus v Elliott (preliminary issue)
Defamation - Libel - Meaning - Trial - Preliminary Issue
Cruddas v Calvert (CA)
Defamation - libel - justification - malicious falsehood - malice - single meaning rule - damages
Levi v Bates (CA)
Protection from Harassment Act 1997 – targeting – speech torts – intention
Lachaux v Independent Print Ltd
Libel – Trial of a Preliminary Issue on Meaning – Repetition Rule – pleadings – meanings – truth – Lucas-Box meanings – Polly-Peck
Kololo v Commissioner of Police for the Metropolis
Data protection - subject access request - abuse of process - discretion - collateral proceedings
Sloutsker v Romanova
Defamation - libel - foreign claimant - foreign defendant - service out of the jurisdiction - whether material non disclosure - whether real and substantial tort within jurisdiction of England and Wales - whether England is the proper forum - likelihood of serious harm - service of English proceedings in Russian Federation - whether valid service effected under Hague Convention - CPR 6.40(3)
CG v Facebook Ireland Ltd
Privacy - harassment - online publication - Facebook - publicising sex offender's identity and whereabouts - injunction - take-down
Rufus v Elliott (CA)
Defamation – Libel – Meaning – Capability
Traveller Movement v Ofcom & Channel 4
Traveller Movement – gypsies – television – Channel 4 – Ofcom – codes of practice – Judicial Review – procedural fairness
JX MX v Dartford & Gravesham NHS Trust
Open justice – anonymity orders – children – infant settlements – personal injury - CPR r21.10 - Article 8 – Article 14 - reporting the courts
Ames & anor v The Spamhaus Project Ltd & anor
Libel - serious harm - Jameel abuse - US publication - foreign claimants - real and substantial tort
Kerner v (1) WX and (2) YZ
Harassment – Injunction – Section 12 HRA – Freedom of expression – Practice Guidance
Sebry v (1) Companies House and (2) The Registrar of Companies
Negligence – breach of statutory duty – duty of care – breach of duty – causation
Home Office v Information Commissioner & Cobain
Appeal to the Upper Tribunal concerning the “steps” discretion under FOIA 2000, s50(4)
Wilson v Ferguson
Mosley v Google Inc
Data protection - injunction - blocking of images - strike-out -realistic prospect of success - E-Commerce Directive - Data Protection Directive - general monitoring obligation
Al Hamadani v Al Khafaf and others
Protection from Harassment Act 1997 – Course of conduct – Joint enterprise - Injunctions - Relief from sanctions – witness statements