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Triplark Limited v Northwood Hall (Freehold) Ltd & others
Defamation - Trial of Preliminary Issues - Corporate Claimant - Meaning - Defamatory Meaning at Common Law - Honest Opinion
Anna Turley v Unite the Union and Stephen Walker
Libel – Trial – Liability for publication – Serious harm – Truth – Public interest – Assessment of damages – CPR Part 36
DSM SFG Group Holdings Limited v Kelly
Breach of Confidence - Harassment - Discharge of Undertakings to the Court - The extent, if at all, that it is permissible for a litigant to rely on confidential information, obtained by covert recording of another's premises, to support a legal claim before that litigant has established the right to use that information
UKIP Ltd v Braine & Ors
Injunction - Without Notice - Blackmail - Disclosure - Breach of Confidence – s.12, Human Rights Act 1998 - Interim Non-Disclosure Orders
Kirkegaard v Smith
Defamation - Meaning - Honest Opinion - Preliminary Issue Trial
Chandler v O’Connor
Libel – Twitter – Summary Relief – Defamation Act 1996 – Assessment of Damages
UUU v BBB
Blackmail - Harassment - Legitimate Expectation of Privacy - ECHR Article 8 - "Without Prejudice" privilege - Anonymity - Private Hearing - Practice Guidance: Interim Non-Disclosure Orders
EuroEco Fuels (Poland) Ltd & Ors v Szczecin and Swinoujscie Seaports Authority SA & Ors
Tort - Defamation - Libel - Jurisdiction - Regulation (EU) No 1215/2012 ("Brussels Recast Regulation") - Arts 7(2) & 30 - related actions - declining jurisdiction - stay of proceedings - Shevill
Sheikh v Associated Newspapers Limited
Defamation - Meaning - Honest Opinion - Preliminary Issue Trial
R (BBC) v Newcastle Crown Court
Judicial Review of a Production Order under PACE
Sadik v Sadik
Defamation - Libel - Strike out - Summary judgment - s.9, Defamation Act 2013 - CPR r.11 - Jurisdiction - Domicile - s.1, Defamation Act 2013 - Serious harm to reputation - Jameel abuse of process
SOJ v JAO
Injunction - Without Notice - Private Hearing- Anonymity - Blackmail - Data Protection - Privacy - Confidentiality - s12, Human Rights Act 1998
Lloyd v Google LLC
Data protection – personal data – Claimant seeking compensation for “damage” suffered by reason of contravention of statutory data protection requirement – whether “same interest” condition satisfied for bringing representative action under CPR r19.6
AAA v Rakoff
Injunction - Privacy – Anonymity - Expedition
BVC v EWF (No. 2)
Injunction - Privacy - Harassment - jurisdiction - summary judgment
(1) GC (2) AF (3) BH (4) ED v CNIL
Right to be forgotten – special category data– full controller obligations only bite on search engine when delisting request made – obligation to create accurate impression about current legal proceedings
Google v CNIL
Right to be forgotten – territorial scope of de-referencing request – no requirement for global delisting – use of geo-blocking
BVG v LAR (No 1)
Blackmail - Privacy - Misuse of Private Information - Harassment - Interim Injunction- Non-Disclosure Application
Caine v Advertiser & Times Ltd and Ors (No. 2)
libel – malicious falsehood – res judicata / cause of action estoppel – abuse of process – Extended Civil Restraint Order – liability for hyperlinked content – jurisdiction of a Deputy High Court Judge – totally without merit applications
Fashion ID GmbH & Co. KG v Verbraucherzentrale NRW eV
Data protection – Facebook plugin embedded on website – joint controllers
Simon v Lyder
Defamation - Libel - Appeal from Court of Appeal of the Republic of Trinidad and Tobago - Reliance upon subsequent facts - The extent which, if at all, two or more different statements made upon different occasions by the same defendant may be aggregated for the purpose of giving rise to a cause of action in defamation
R (oao TT) v The Registrar General for England and Wales
Anonymity - Parties to proceedings - Article 8 - Article 10 - rights of children
Choudhrie v Choudhrie
Declaration – Breach of confidence – Marital confidence – Strike out - Jameel Abuse
A & B v X & Y and Times Newspapers Ltd
Anonymity - employment - Employment Appeal Tribunal - sexual offences
Solicitor General v Holmes
Contempt in the face of the court – guidance where committal pursued in the Divisional Court
Lachaux v Independent Print Ltd
Defamation – serious harm to reputation under s.1, Defamation Act 2013 – construction – accrual of cause of action – role of meaning of words – role of inference in determination of issue of serious harm – applicability of repetition rule and rule in Dingle v Associated Newspapers to determination of issue of serious harm
Spicer v Commissioner of Police of the Metropolis
Defamation - meaning - preliminary issue trial - bane and antidote
Alsaifi v Secretary of State for Education
Defamation - Spokesperson's quote in newspaper article - Meaning - Principles governing quoted source liability - Serious Harm - Effect of Prior Court Judgment on reputational harm - Qualified Privilege - Press Releases
Butt v Secretary of State for the Home Department
Defamation – meaning – honest opinion
Serafin v Malkiewicz
Libel – public interest – truth – damages – unfair judicial treatment
Kennedy v National Trust for Scotland
Libel – Data Protection – Service within the Jurisdiction – forum non conveniens – Scotland – Deemed Service – Validity of the Claim Form
XW v XH (Court of Appeal)
Court of Appeal – Financial remedies – Reporting Restrictions – Anonymity
RJ v Tigipko 2
Reporting Restrictions – Contempt of Court Act 1981 – Anonymity
Greenstein v Campaign against Antisemitism
Defamation - Meaning - Expressions of Opinion or Statements of Fact - Preliminary Issue Trial - Antisemitism allegations
Richard Burgon MP v News Group Newspapers Limited and Thomas Newton Dunn
Libel - Malicious Falsehood - Data Protection
Linklaters LLP & Linklaters Business Services v Mellish
Breach of Confidence - Injunctions
RJ v Tigipko
Family proceedings – Reporting Restrictions – Administration of Justice Act 1960 - Children Act 1989 - Anonymity
Cooper v National Crime Agency
Data protection – sensitive personal data – data sharing in the context of criminal and disciplinary proceedings – police forces – unfair dismissal.
BBC v Independent Office for Police Conduct
Information Notice Appeal – Investigatory Powers – Police Reform Act 2002 – Article 10
Nugent v Willers
Defamation - Limitation - Discretionary exclusion of time limit for actions for defamation or malicious falsehood - s.30A of the Limitation Act 1984 (Isle of Man) - s.32A Limitation Act 1980 (England & Wales)
Carruthers v Associated Newspapers Limited, Carruthers v News Group Newspapers Limited
Defamation – Meaning – Honest Opinion – Summary Judgment