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Publisher Random House has lost its attempt to withdraw an offer of amends made to Frank Warren in favour of a justification defence in its battle with the boxing promoter over Ricky Hatton’s autobiography.  … Read More »

The trial of the privacy action brought by FIA President Max Mosley concluded in the High Court today.   James Price QC, acting for Mr Mosley, who is bringing the claim against News Group Newspapers… Read More »

A Scottish Human rights lawyer who commented on the conviction of a man for terrorism offences did not commit contempt, the Scottish High Court ruled this week. Aamer Anwar described the man’s conviction as ‘a tragedy… Read More »

The European Court of Human Rights has ruled that the interception of communications under the Interception of Communications Act 1985 violated Article 8 of the European Convention on Human Rights, which guarantees citizens a right to respect… Read More »

News Group Newspapers today lost its application to strike-out the exemplary damages claim brought against it by Max Mosley, the president of motor racing’s governing body. Mr Mosley has brought an action for invasion of… Read More »

The PCC today issued an important privacy ruling on website video images and stills of a police drugs raid published in a regional newspaper. The Scarborough Evening News accompanied police on the raid of a… Read More »

An underpants-clad guitar-playing cowboy has had his privacy claim against the maker of M&Ms and its ad agency for their alleged appropriation of his likeness and persona dismissed by a New York judge, although his claim for trade… Read More »

The broadcasting regulator Ofcom has fined GCap Media plc £1,110,000 in respect of unfair conduct in its running of a “secret sound” competition.   The competition, which was broadcast on 30 of GCap’s local radio… Read More »

The Press Complaints Commission has rejected a complaint from JK Rowling under Clause 3 (Privacy) of the PCC Code against three newspapers which had published details of where she lives. The Harry Potter author had,… Read More »

Stephen Hanratty, the Defendant in a libel claim brought by Gentoo Group and its CEO Peter Walls, has been denied permission to appeal against the ruling of Eady J that the limitation period be disapplied and… Read More »

A research based review of no win no fee arrangements in England and Wales was announced today by the Ministry of Justice. The study, to be carried out by senior academics, will look at whether the… Read More »

A complaint about an ITV documentary about binge drinking in the UK that briefly pictured the complainant in a state of intoxication in a public street has not been upheld. Graham Nixon complained that the… Read More »

Manchester United and Portugal star Christiano Ronaldo accepted undisclosed damages in the High Court yesterday over a newspaper claim that he was fined £8,000 by Sir Alex Ferguson for using his mobile phone four times… Read More »

The High Court has ruled that an order requiring the co-author of a book on a former Al-Qaeda recruiter and fundraiser to make his research for the book available to police was correct in principle but was… Read More »

The London Paper, the free newspaper produced by News International in London and the South-East has apologised to the London Mayor, Boris Johnson for publishing photographs of his children whilst on holiday in Turkey. Mr Johnson… Read More »

O2 has failed to stop rival mobile operator 3 making use of O2’s name and bubbles trade marks in price-comparison advertising, the ECJ has ruled. The UK Court of Appeal had asked the European Court… Read More »

The publisher of The Sunday Times has apologised to MEP Nigel Farage for alleging that he was a ‘hypocrite’ for using EU funds to employ his son as an assistant while he was in fact still in full-time education…. Read More »

Two founder members of former pop group Busted today lost their claim to have written two of the group’s biggest hits, and with it their claim to an estimated £10m in royalties. Ki McPhail and… Read More »

A mother of five who was falsely labelled a ‘scrounger’ by the Daily Express has settled her libel claim against the publishers of the newspaper after they agreed to publish an apology and correction and… Read More »

Ozzy Osbourne has settled his libel claim against the publishers of the Daily Star in relation to allegations that he had thrown the 2008 Brit Awards into chaos after suffering a health scare. The newspaper had reported… Read More »