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Milne v Express Newspapers (QBD)

Defamation - Offer of amends - s.4(3) Defamation Act 1996 - "knew or had reason to believe"

[2002] EWHC 2564 (QB); [2003] 1 WLR 927; [2003] 1 All ER 482; [2003] EMLR 440 - Queen's Bench Division

Judge Eady J

Foster & Another v Associated Newspapers Limited

Defamation - Libel - meaning - justification - amendment - mode of trial - s.69 Supreme Court Act 1981 - adjournment of trial

[2002] EWHC 1885 (QB) - Queen's Bench Division

Judge Gray J

McManus v Beckham

Defamation - Slander - liability for republication - foreseeability - special damage

[2002] EWCA Civ 939; [2002] EMLR 880; [2002] 1 WLR 2982 - Court of Appeal

Judge Waller, Clark, Laws LLJ

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

[2003] QB 1175; [2003] 2 WLR 128 - Court of Appeal

Judge Simon Brown, Chadwick and Hale LJJ

Kinch v Associated Newspapers Ltd

Defamation - Libel - meaning - justification - allegation of infamy - bad reputation

[2002] EWHC 1020 (QB) - Queen's Bench Division

Judge Eady J

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

12/03/2002 - Queen's Bench Division

Judge Sir Oliver Popplewell