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A doctor today accepted £115,000 libel damages over false allegations on the front page of The Sun that he was linked to terrorism. In a statement in open court read today his solicitor, Leo Dawkins of… Read More »

The actor Simon Bowman was today awarded £4,250 by the High Court pursuant to the offer of amends scheme in compensation for injury caused by the publication of a defamatory article on the Mirror.co.uk website. However,… Read More »

The North London Central Mosque Trust has today been given permission to appeal the ruling by Eady J that its trustees could not pursue a libel claim to vindicate its reputation. A claim was brought in… Read More »

Clive Anderson’s radio series Unreliable Evidence this week looks at the current state of defamation law and practice. 5RB‘s Joint Head of Chambers Adrienne Page QC joins a panel that includes Lord Hoffman to discuss some of… Read More »

Following Simon Singh’s successful result in the Court of Appeal, the British Chiropractic Association has withdrawn its libel claim against him. In April 2008, the Guardian published in its Comment and Debate section an article… Read More »

The Headteacher, former Headteacher and Chair of Governors of Durand Primary School, a foundation school in Stockwell, London have received an unreserved apology and retraction over allegations made by the father of a former trainee… Read More »

Four Trustees of the Amanat Charity Trust, a charitable organisation more commonly known as the Ummah Welfare Trust, have today received an apology from Express Newspapers over false allegations linking them to terrorism and extremism…. Read More »

The Lord Chief Justice, Lord Judge, sitting with the Master of the Rolls and Sedley LJ, today allowed Simon Singh’s appeal against decisions of Eady J last year in the libel claim brought against him by… Read More »

A libel claim brought by a Russian businesswoman in respect of articles published in the Sunday Times has been allowed to proceed in respect of the publications of hard copies of the articles in Russia… Read More »

Evening Standard Limited (ESL) has struck out the meanings in a claim brought against it by Conservative MP Jacqui Lait. ESL applied to strike out Lait’s claim, which related to an Evening Standard article of… Read More »

The Libel Working Group, which was established by the Ministry of Justice in January to consider reforms to the law of libel, has published its report.  The Working Group‘s mandate was to consider whether the… Read More »

The Government has published its response to the consultation paper ‘Defamation and the internet: the multiple publication rule.’ In the paper the Ministry of Justice declares: "in the light of the responses received to this consulation, and… Read More »

A legal claim brought as part of a long running battle between a high profile asbestos surveyor and the Health and Safety Executive has been brought to a premature end. The High Court has struck out… Read More »

McKeown sued for a declaration that the British Horseracing Authority (“BHA”)  acted unlawfully in finding him in breach of the Rules of Racing, and for an injunction to prevent implementation of a 4 year disqualification…. Read More »

Lawyers for Media Standards (LMS) have written to Jack Straw asking him to suspend his decision to cap success fees in defamation cases at 10%.  If such steps are not taken, LMS say that they will begin… Read More »

Yesterday evening Sir David Eady addressed the launch of the new Centre for Law, Justice and Journalism at City University on significant changes that could occur to libel law as a consequence of recent trends… Read More »

Russian businessman Boris Berezovsky today won his libel claim against Russian Television and Vladimir Terluk arising from allegations broadcast in a television programme that he was responsible for the murder of Alexander Litvinenko. Mr Berezovsky was… Read More »

Justice Secretary Jack Straw has announced measures to reduce the success fees that lawyers can charge in no-win, no-fee defamation cases from 100% to 10%. An amendment to the Conditional Fee Agreements Order 2000 is laid by… Read More »

The House of Commons Culture, Media and Sport Select Committee, chaired by John Whittingdale, has made wide-ranging recommendations for reforming media law in its report Press Standards, Privacy and Libel. The Committee found that the current burden… Read More »

An Italian court has found three Google executives guilty of privacy code violations. Peter Fleischer, chief privacy counsel; David Drummond, senior vice president and chief legal officer; and George Reyes, a former chief financial officer were given six… Read More »