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Chang Wa Shan v Esther Chan Pui Kwan
Defamation - malicious falsehood - slander - absolute privilege - civil proceedings - informant - damages - causation - remoteness - Hong Kong
Hiranandani-Vandrevala v Times Newspapers Limited
Defamation, Meaning, Repetition Rule, Levels of Meaning, Preliminary Issue
Flood v Times Newspapers Ltd (No.3)
Libel - Damages - Defendant's conduct - Deterrence - Vindication
Flood v Times Newspapers Ltd (No.2)
Defamation - libel - natural and ordinary meaning - innuendo - Chase Levels - meaning as a preliminary issue - online publication
AAA v Associated Newspapers Ltd (CA)
Privacy - injunction - expectation of privacy - public interest - best interest of child
Mengi v Hermitage (No 2)
Libel - internet blog - justification - reply to attack qualified privilege
Flood v Times Newspapers Limited (SC)
Libel - Reynolds privilege - Public interest - Responsible journalism
Modi & IMG v Clarke
Appeal - Permission to Appeal - Defamation - Libel - Meaning - Whether the Judge was correct to rule that the words complained of were incapable of bearing any meaning defamatory of either Claimant
Modi v Clarke; IMG v Clarke
Defamation - Libel - Costs - Defamation Proceedings Costs Management Scheme - Practice Direction 51D - Whether it is necessary or appropriate under the Scheme to refer a Master or Judge to settlement offers
OPQ v BJM
Privacy - Human Rights - Injunctive relief - Injunctions - Spycatcher - Contra mundum - third parties - media
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
XJA v News Group Newspapers Ltd
Injunction – Anonymity order – Privacy – Misuse of private information – Open justice – Articles 8, 10 ECHR
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
Flood v Times Newspapers Ltd (CA)
Libel - Reynolds privilege - Public interest - Responsible journalism - Continued internet publication following receipt of new information - Appellate jurisdiction
Ajinomoto Sweeteners Europe SAS v Asda Stores Ltd (No 2) (CA)
Malicious falsehood - Meaning - Preliminary Issue - Single-meaning rule
Flood v Times Newspapers Ltd
Defamation - Allegations published in print and on website - Reynolds privilege - Preliminary issue - Police officer - Allegation of corruption - Police investigation - Anonymous ources
Ajinomoto Sweeteners Europe SAS v Asda Stores Ltd (No 2)
Malicious falsehood - Meaning - Preliminary Issue - Single-meaning rule - Least injurious meaning
Napier & Another v Pressdram Ltd
Breach of confidence - injunction - disciplinary investigations - privacy - Legal Services Ombudsman - s.23 Courts and Legal Services Act 1990 - s. 44D & s. 44E Solicitors Act 1974 - Legal Services Act 2007
Radu v Houston & Another (No.4)
Libel - Justification - Pleading of a Chase level 2 defence - Striking out
Mosley v News Group Newspapers Ltd (No 3)
Privacy - Reasonable expectation of privacy - Public interest -Footage of sexual activities - Public figure – Allegations of Nazi role-play
Mosley v News Group Newspapers Ltd (No 2)
Privacy - Reasonable expectation of privacy - Public interest -Footage of sexual activities - Public figure – Allegations of Nazi role-play - Exemplary damages
Mosley v News Group Newspapers Ltd (No 1)
Privacy - Injunction - Footage of sexual activities - Public interest - Public domain
Adelson v Associated Newspapers Ltd (No 3)
Libel - Stay - Striking out - Open offer to settle - Abuse of process - Proportionality - Damages - Vindication - Statement in open court - Costs
Adelson v Associated Newspapers Ltd (No. 2)
Libel - Amendment - Adding parties - Disapplication of limitation period - Corporate libel claims - Discretion
Adelson v Associated Newspapers Ltd (CA)
Defamation – Limitation – Substitution of parties – Addition of parties - Mistake - s.35 Limitation Act 1980 – CPR 17.4 and 19.5(3)
Douglas v Hello! Ltd (No.8) (HL)
Breach of confidence - Nature of confidential matter - Enforceability of obligation of confidence post-publication - Causing loss by unlawful means - Test of intention as an ingredient - Unlawful means
Adelson v Associated Newspapers Ltd
Defamation – Limitation – Substitution of parties – Addition of parties - Mistake - s.35 Limitation Act 1980 – Civil Procedure Rules 1998
Browne v Associated Newspapers Ltd (CA)
Privacy - Injunction - Freedom of expression - Breach of confidence - Articles 8,10 ECHR - s.12 HRA 1998
X & Y v Persons Unknown
Privacy - Confidence - Injunctions - Application to Discharge - "John Doe" Orders - Notification of media
Jameel & Another v Wall Street Journal Europe (No.2) (HL)
Defamation - Libel – Reynolds qualified privilege - Presumption of damage - Corporate claimants
Clayton v Clayton
Reporting Restrictions - Family Division - Section 97 Children Act 1989 - Section 1 Children Act 1989 - Prohibited Steps Order
Mahfouz and another v Brisard & another
Defamation - Libel - ss8-10 Defamation Act 1996 - Whether Claimants entitled to summary disposal - Whether Claimants entitled to all remedies sought under summary disposal procedure - Declaration of falsity rejected
Harrods Ltd v Times Newspapers Ltd (CA)
Breach of confidence - Public interest defence - Documents supporting allegation of mistreatment of staff - Disclosure - Relevance of truth or falsity of allegation - Relevance of defendant's knowledge at time of breach of confidence
Galloway v Telegraph Group Ltd (CA)
Libel – Qualified privilege – Reynolds privilege – Reportage – Adoption – Public interest – Fair comment on privileged report – Damages
Campbell v MGN Ltd (Costs) HL
Costs - Conditional Fee Agreements - Success Fee - Article 10 - Access to Justice - Article 6 - Proportionality - Cost-capping
Mahfouz and another v Brisard and another
Defamation - Libel - Publication - Preliminary Issue - Whether the First Defendant was responsible in law for the publication of a translation of a Book written by him for sale in the United States
Jameel & Another v Times Newspapers Ltd (No.2)
Defamation - Libel - Statutory qualified privilege - Justification - Grounds to inquire - Case management - Striking out
Douglas v Hello! Ltd (No 8) (CA)
Privacy - Confidence - Transferability of rights of privacy/ confidence - Economic torts - Test of intention as an ingredient of economic torts - Test of causation of damage - Interim injunctions - Whether damages adequate remedy
Jameel (Yousef) v Dow Jones & Co. Inc.
Defamation - libel – Internet publication - presumption of damage - identification of Claimant – no real and substantial tort/abuse of process
Jameel & Another v Wall Street Journal Europe (No.2) (CA)
Defamation - Libel – Reynolds privilege – Relevance of Bonnick v Morris - Presumption of damage – Presumption of falsity
Galloway v Telegraph Group Ltd (QBD)
Libel – Qualified Privilege – Reynolds – Reportage – Adoption – Public Interest – Fair Comment on Privilege Report – Damages
King v Lewis & Others (CA)
Libel - Internet - Publication - Jurisdiction - Whether England was the correct forum - CPR - Leave to Serve Claim Form out of jurisdiction
Jameel & Another v Times Newspapers Ltd (CA)
Defamation - Libel - Meaning of words complained of - Chase 'level 2' and 'level 3 meanings' - Pleadings - Whether article capable of being defamatory of corporate claimant
King v Lewis
Defamation - Libel - Civil procedure - Service out of the jurisdiction - Appropriate forum
Jameel & Another v Wall Street Journal Europe
Defamation - Libel - Qualified Privilege - Reynolds defence
Jameel & Another v Wall Street Journal Europe (CA)
Libel - meaning - preliminary ruling as to capable meanings - qualified privilege - admissibility of evidence bearing on truth of allegation complained of
Jameel & Another v Times Newspapers Ltd
Defamation - Libel - Meaning of words complained of - Whether article capable of being defamatory of corporate claimant - Justification - Summary judgment
Douglas v Hello! Ltd (No.6)
Breach of confidence - Privacy - Data Protection Act 1998 - intellectual property - Quantum of damages - Distress - Wasted costs - Loss of revenue - Notional licence fee
Sheikha Mouza al Misnad v Azzaman Ltd & Others
Defamation - Libel - Summary disposal - CPR Part 24 - s.8 Defamation Act 1996 - Conflict of laws - Publication in multiple foreign jurisdictions - Reynolds privilege - Standards of responsible journalism
Milne v Express Newspapers (No.2)
Defamation - Libel - offer of amends - rejection of offer of amends - the correct test under s4(3) Defamation Act 1996
Musa King v Telegraph Group Ltd (QBD)
Defamation - libel - civil procedure - Conditional fee arrangements - Human Rights - Articles 6, 10 - justification - whether it was permissible to justify the meaning that the police suspected the claimant of involvement in terrorist offences
Harrods Ltd v Dow Jones & Co Inc
Defamation - libel - jurisdiction - whether the claimant could sue the defendant in this jurisidiction
Sharma v Jay & Others
Defamation- Harassment- Protection from Harassment Act 1997- Malice- Slander- Application to strike out claim for harassment and plea of malice- CPR Part 3.4 and Part 24.2
Douglas v Hello! Ltd (No.5)
Human Rights - intellectual property - Breach of confidence - Privacy - ECHR, Art 8 - Freedom of expression - ECHR, Art 10 - Data Protection Act 1998 - use of surrepitiously taken photographs
Douglas v Hello! Ltd (No.4)
Breach of confidence - Privacy - ECHR, Art 8 - intellectual property - Civil procedure - Witness statements - Hearsay evidence - Cross-examination - CPR 33.4 - CPR 32.5
Douglas v Hello! Ltd (No.2)
Breach of confidence - Privacy - ECHR, Art 10 - ECHR, Art 8 - Service out of jurisdiction - Data Protection Act 1998 - Interference with rights and business - Unlawful means conspiracy - photographs
Douglas v Hello! Ltd (No.3)
Breach of confidence - Privacy - Human Rights - ECHR, Art 8 - Striking out - Re-amendments - Fair trial
Milne v Express Newspapers (QBD)
Defamation - Offer of amends - s.4(3) Defamation Act 1996 - "knew or had reason to believe"
Foster & Another v Associated Newspapers Limited
Defamation - Libel - meaning - justification - amendment - mode of trial - s.69 Supreme Court Act 1981 - adjournment of trial
Fayed v Telegraph Group Ltd
Defamation - Libel - meaning
McManus v Beckham
Defamation - Slander - liability for republication - foreseeability - special damage
Hamilton v Al Fayed (No 2)
Costs - application for contributors to fighting fund to pay costs of successful defendant - discretion as to costs under Supreme Court Act 1981 s 51
Kinch v Associated Newspapers Ltd
Defamation - Libel - meaning - justification - allegation of infamy - bad reputation
Gaddafi v Telegraph Group Ltd (No.3)
Defamation - Libel - pre-trial review - application by defendant to strike out claim as an abuse of the process on grounds that the Libyan claimant did not have sufficient standing or reputation in England to warrant his libel action going before a jury - application by defendant to strike out plea of foreign publication on grounds that reliance on common law presumption that foreign law the same as English law incompatible with Article 10 ECHR
McPhilemy v Times Newspapers Ltd (No.4)
Defamation - Libel - Costs - Claimant's Offer to Settle - CPR Part 36.21 - Consequences of Claimant doing better than offer made - Indemnity Costs
McPhilemy v Times Newspapers Ltd (No.3)
Defamation - Libel - Jury Trial - Appeal against alleged perversity in jury verdict - Question left to the jury specifically on Appellants' insistence - Abuse of Process
Branson v Bower
Defamation - libel - fair comment - defendant publishing article about claimant's motives for bidding for National Lottery franchise - whether words complained of comment or statements of fact - judge ruling that words were comment
Clibbery v Allan
Court proceedings - confidentiality - chambers applications - Family Division - Applicant disclosing to press other party's evidence given at hearing in chambers - Whether family proceedings to be held in chambers - Whether proceedings in chambers confidential - Whether disclosure without Court's permission a contempt
Gaddafi v Telegraph Group Ltd (No.2)
Defamation - Libel - Striking out - Delay - Abuse of Process - CPR 3.4(2)
Hamilton v Fayed
Defamation - libel action over allegations on television of corruption by Member of Parliament - parliamentary privilege - waiver under section 13 of Defamation Act 1996 - trial requiring investigation of same issues as Parliamentary Commissioner for Standards - whether libel action involved breach of parliamentary privilege and should be stayed.
McPhilemy v Times Newspapers Ltd (No.2)
Defamation - Libel - Civil Evidence - Use of witness statements at trial - CPR Part 32.5
Gaddafi v Telegraph Group Ltd
Defamation - libel - newspaper publication - qualified privilege - Reynolds - journalist's sources - whether non-disclosure of sources precludes reliance on privilege
Reynolds v Times Newspapers Ltd
Defamation - libel - qualified privilege- newspaper publication concerning public figure engaged in political events- whether qualified privilege attached to all discussion of political matters- whether privilege attached to publication
McPhilemy v Times Newspapers Ltd
Defamation - Libel - Amendment - Justification - Lucas Box Meanings - Proportionality - proper role of pleadings
Service Corp International plc & Anor v Channel Four Television Corp & Anor
Undercover filming - employee - trespass - copyright - equitable ownership - breach of confidence - interim injunction - freedom of expression - balance of convenience - delay - discretion
Re G (Celebrities: Publicity)
Family proceedings - press restrictions - celebrities - prohibition on taking or publishing photographs of children - prohibition on parents communicating with news media about each other or about children - prohibition on publishing order or summary of order - application by newspaper to discharge or vary court's order to permit publication of summary of court's decision
Service Corporation International plc & Anor v Channel Four Television & Anor
Copyright - Confidential information - Trespass - Funeral directors - Undercover filming for broadcast - Employee of plaintiffs - Interim injunction - Serious issue to be tried - Balance of convenience
Marks & Spencer plc v Granada Television Ltd
Defamation - Libel - Evidence - Hearsay - Civil Evidence Act 1968
Aitken v Preston and Others
Defamation - Libel - Mode of Trial - Trial by Judge alone - Prolonged Examination of Documents - s.69 Supreme Court Act 1981
Charleston & Smith v News Group Newspapers Ltd
Defamation - Libel - Headline - Photographs - Meaning
Singer v The Jockey Club
Sports - horseracing - dope testing - disqualification - disciplinary tribunal - contract - owner claiming horse wrongly disqualified - damages
Greig v Insole
Sports law - Restraint of Trade - Employment - Cricketers - Validity of contracts - whether inducement to cricketers to break contracts with promoter - Industrial Relations - Whether "employers' association" immune from legal proceedings - Trade Union and Labour Relations Act 1974 (c. 52), ss. 14, 28 (2)