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Clarkson Plc v Person or Persons Unknown
Injunction - Breach of Confidence - Return Date - Derogations from Open Justice
LJY v Persons Unknown
Privacy - libel - harassment - injunction - blackmail
HRH Prince Louis of Luxembourg v HRH Princess Tessy of Luxembourg & anor
Reporting Restrictions – Family Division – Administration of Justice – Article 10 – Article 8
Various Claimants v WM Morrisons Supermarket PLC
In a trial of liability for breach of the Data Protection Act 1998, misuse of private information and breach of confidence: where a then employee of the D had made a copy of the Cs’ private/confidential information held on D’s payroll and uploaded it to the internet, was D liable either on a direct or vicarious liability basis?
Data Protection Act 1998 – Misuse of private information – Breach of confidence – Vicarious liability – DPP7
Brown v Bower & Another
Defamation
Butt v Secretary of State for the Home Department
Defamation - meaning - honest opinion
R v R & Anor
Reporting Restrictions – Court of Appeal – Anonymity Orders – Section 97 Children Act 1989 – Open Justice
Bukovsky v CPS (CA)
Defamation - Libel - Meaning - Appellate Review
Al-KO Kober Ltd & Anor v Balvinder Sambhi
Interim injunction - malicious falsehood - Bonnard v Perryman - data protection - order under s10 DPA
Lachaux v Independent Print Ltd (Privilege)
On appeal from a decision of Sir Michael Tugendhat [2015] EWHC 3677 (QB): whether the judge erred in granting the Claimant an injunction in respect of material said to be both confidential and covered by Legal Professional Privilege.
Lachaux v Independent Print Ltd (Serious harm)
On appeal from the decision of Warby J [2016] QB 402; [2015] EWHC 2242 (QB): what was the proper approach to determining whether a statement satisfied the 'serious harm' test in section 1(1) of the Defamation Act 2013?
Libel - Serious Harm - Rule in Dingle - Presumption of Harm - Limitation - Defamation Act 2013
Chang Wa Shan v Esther Chan Pui Kwan
Defamation - malicious falsehood - slander - absolute privilege - civil proceedings - informant - damages - causation - remoteness - Hong Kong
Townsend v Google Inc. and Google UK Limited
Data Protection | Privacy
Keith Singh v Joseph Weayou
Libel – Malicious Falsehood – Serious Harm - Qualified Privilege – Honest Opinion - Truth – Malice – Damage
Mionis v Democratic Press SA and others
Appeal - Defamation - Article 10 of the European Convention - Section 12, Human Rights Act 1998 - Settlement - Whether Judge below was correct to have refused application to lift a stay in the proceedings imposed by a Tomlin Order
Howell v South London Church Fund and Southwark Diocesan Board of Finance
Application for pre-action disclosure and interim injunction in libel claim
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
Ministry of Defence v Information Commissioner & Evans
FOIA appeal concerning disclosure of a directory published by the Defence Export Services Organisation (‘DESO’)
Khuja (formerly known as PNM) v Times Newspapers Ltd
Open Justice – Privacy – Contempt of Court Act 1981 – Criminal Proceedings – Injunctions – Reporting Restrictions – anonymity – postponement of reporting
Brevan Howard Asset Management LLP v Reuters Limited & another
Appeal - Interim Injunction – Breach of Confidence – Public Interest – Prior Restraint – Open Justice
Malaga-Cano v Barclay & ors
Slander - Libel - Meaning - Serious Harm - Thornton threshold - Jameel abuse - collateral purpose abuse - common interest privilege - truth - honest opinion - slander per se - "office" or "calling" - Defamation Act 1952 - Defamation Act 2013
Blue v Ashley v Times Newspapers Limited
Open Justice - Disclosure - Application by a non-party for court documents - Power of the court to provide documents to a non-party - CPR 5.4C - CPR 32.12 - CPR 32.13
Nick Brown v (1) Tom Bower & (2) Faber & Faber Limited
Defamation - libel - serious harm - trial of preliminary issue
R v Jemma Beale
Sexual Offences Amendment Act 1992 - anonymity - Contempt of Court Act 1981 - postponement of reporting
Markham and Anor v R
Reporting restrictions - children - s45 Youth Justice and Criminal Evidence Act 1999 - excepting direction - Article 8 - Article 10
Sir Cliff Richard OBE v (1) The British Broadcasting Corporation (2) Chief Constable of South Yorkshire Police
Interim Application - Request for Further Information – Journalistic Sources – Misuse of Private Information – Articles 6, 8 & 10 ECHR.
Ahmed v (1) Express Newspapers (2) Associated Newspapers Ltd
Defamation - s.1 Defamation Act 2013 - serious harm - Jameel grounds - Strike Out CPR 3.4(2) - Summary Judgment CPR 24
Stunt v Associated Newspapers
data protection – the data protection act 1998 – s.32(4) – stay in data protection claims
Mohamed Ali Harrath v (1) Stand for Peace Limited & (2) Samuel Westrop
Libel - Defamation - Damages
Brevan Howard Asset Management LLP v Reuters Ltd, Maiya Keidan & Persons Unknown
Interim Injunction - Breach of Confidence – Public Interest – Prior Restraint – Open Justice
Lisle-Mainwaring v Associated Newspapers Ltd & Anor
Defamation – offer of amends – s3(5) defamation act 1996 – Burstein mitigation – s12 Defamation Act 1952 – special damages - removal of republication
Yalland & Ors v Secretary of State for Exiting the European Union
Anonymity for claimants challenging the government’s alleged decision to leave the EEA without an Act of Parliament
Bains, Kazan-Allen & VNP v Moore, K2 Intelligence Ltd & Bigazzi
Breach of Confidence- Misuse of Private Information - Breach of statutory duty under the Data Protection Act 1998 - Interim Remedies - Delivery Up - Procedure - need for Particulars of Claim
Basuta v Dhemrait
Malicious prosecution - permission to appeal - extensions of time - Denton principles
Norman v Norman
Court of Appeal - anonymity orders – financial remedy proceedings
Barron v Collins
Defamation – slander - libel - offer of amends – s3(5) Defamation Act 1996 – political libels – aggravating conduct during the offer of amends procedure