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Following Desmond Browne QC’s decision to take up Associate Membership of Chambers and step down as Head of Chambers with effect from 13 April 2022, Adrienne Page QC has become Joint Head of Chambers with… Read More »

The High Court has granted an interim injunction restraining the BBC from broadcasting a programme identifying ‘X’, an alleged covert human intelligence source (‘CHIS’) for MI5. The BBC alleges that X is a dangerous extremist… Read More »

Broadcaster and journalist Andrew Neil was granted permission by Master Dagnall to serve out his libel claim on Jennifer Arcuri in the United States. Mr Neil is suing Ms Arcuri for libel over tweets she… Read More »

5RB‘s Godwin Busuttil and former member of chambers HHJ Richard Parkes QC have retired as editors of the Entertainment and Media Law Reports. Issue 3 of 2022 will be their last. They will be succeeded… Read More »

5RB has learnt with great regret of the death of Sir Charles Gray. Joint Head of Chambers Desmond Browne QC said: “I was terribly sad to receive the news that Charles died yesterday.  Sir Charles… Read More »

A joint statement in open court has been read today in a libel claim brought by Mike Ashley. Between 16 and 18 July 2020, TNL, the publisher of The Times, published seven articles in various… Read More »

An open hearing was held yesterday in proceedings brought by the Attorney General for an injunction against the BBC in respect of a planned report about an MI5 agent.  The BBC alleges that the agent… Read More »

Mr Sykes sued Ms Shaw over a Facebook post that she published in May 2021, shortly after the inquest into the death of his wife, Jodie Sykes. Lily Walker-Parr, of 5RB, told HHJ Lewis (sitting… Read More »

Details of the claim brought by the government to prevent a broadcast by the BBC about an alleged MI5 agent were today made public. Following the decision by the Attorney General not to appeal last… Read More »

An attempt by the Government to exclude the public from the hearing of its claim for an injunction against the BBC has failed. The Attorney General has applied for an injunction to prevent the BBC… Read More »

The Supreme Court has upheld the decisions of the Court of Appeal and Mr Justice Nicklin that an article about a fraud, bribery and corruption investigation into the Claimant, at a time when he had… Read More »

The new Queen’s Bench Guide has been published.  It is available here. Changes in the new Guide include those in the areas of: Interim and out of hours applications Urgent and Short Applications before the… Read More »

On 31 January 2022 The Data Protection Act 2018 (Amendment of Schedule 2 Exemptions) Regulations 2022 came into force. This was a remedial response to the Court of Appeal’s declaration of incompatibility in May 2021… Read More »

A hearing in Rebekah Vardy v Coleen Rooney begins today before Mrs Justice Steyn at the Royal Courts of Justice.  Mrs Rooney applies to amend her Defence, to join Caroline Watt (Mrs Vardy’s agent) to… Read More »

The Department for Culture, Media and Sport has announced today that Jonathan Scherbel-Ball has been appointed to the Advisory Council on National Records and Archives. The Advisory Council is an independent body which advises the… Read More »

D had sought permission to appeal against a PTR decision of Julian Knowles J in Wright v McCormack, in which the Judge (among other things): Struck out/ refused permission to re-amend an innuendo meaning which was… Read More »

On the advice of the Lord Chancellor and the Lord Chief Justice of England and Wales, the Queen has appointed 163 Recorders. 5RB is pleased to announce that effective from 26 January 2022, the Lord… Read More »

In September 2021, Middlesbrough football player Marc Bola was charged with misconduct by the Football Association (FA) for an Aggravated Breach of FA Rule E3(1). The charge related to Tweet that he had posted on… Read More »