Court of Appeal
“A person who made a complaint to the police, instigating an investigation which did not lead to a prosecution, was entitled to rely on the defence of absolute privilege if proceedings were subsequently brought.”
The Times, 27th August 2008
Source: www.timesonline.co.uk
Please note the Times Law Reports are only available free on Times Online for 21 days from the date of publication.
“Author Sir Salman Rushdie came to the High Court in London today to hear apologies from the writers and publishers of a book which they admitted contained falsehoods about his time under police protection.”
The Independent, 26th August 2008
Source: www.independent.co.uk
“Sir Salman Rushdie will be at the High Court today for the settlement of a libel action he brought over allegations in a book written by a former policeman.”
The Times, 26th August 2008
Source: www.timesonline.co.uk
“A lecturer has won £10,000 in libel damages after his university falsely accused him of making up expenses claims.”
Daily Telegraph, 26th August 2008
Source: www.telegraph.co.uk
“US celebrities are being actively courted by media lawyers to take advantage of Britain’s tougher libel laws and bring their cases to London.”
The Independent, 21st August 2008
Source: www.independent.co.uk
“Defamation on internet bulletin boards is more like slander than libel, a High Court judge has ruled. Mr Justice Eady said that bulletin board discussions are characterised by ‘give and take’ and should be considered in that context.”
OUT-LAW.com, 7th August 2008
Source: www.out-law.com
“Barry George, who was cleared last week of murdering the Crimewatch presenter Jill Dando, is considering legal action over the picture of a masked gunman that police claim is him.”
The Times, 4th August 2008
Source: www.timesonline.co.uk
“Former England and Manchester United star Andrew Cole has accepted substantial undisclosed damages over a newspaper’s claim he beat his wife.”
BBC News, 30th July 2008
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
“Details of elaborate offshore corporation tax avoidance schemes operated by Tesco were yesterday allowed to be introduced into evidence in a libel case the supermarket chain is bringing against the Guardian.”
The Guardian, 30th July 2008
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
“TV personality Kerry Katona has been awarded substantial damages over newspaper claims she worked as a prostitute before she was famous.”
BBC News, 28th July 2008
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
“Max Mosley is suing the News of the World for libel, having last week won a record £60,000 in damages from the paper for invasion of privacy.”
The Guardian, 28th July 2008
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
“The News of the World editor, Colin Myler, will this week be examining the complex balance sheet resulting from his near-£1m legal battle with Max Mosley. But the financial penalties are by no means fatal, either for Myler’s career or for the fortunes of his paper. In short, this is very far from the end of the world for the News of the World. Or the end of the line for kiss and tell.”
The Guardian, 28th July 2008
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
“Today I am talking to Carl Gardner, barrister and author of the Head of Legal blog, about the judgment of Mr Justice Eady in Mosley. We examine the developing law on privacy, exemplary damages and question whether the decision was in fact a ‘landmark’ decision in some aspect, including, as a side effect, the law on consent generally after R v Brown.”
Charon QC, 26th July 2008
Source: www.charonqc.wordpress.com
“Charon QC” is the blogging pseudonym of Mike Semple Piggot, editor of insitelaw newswire.
“It was at 7:50am on Thursday July 10 when it all started to go really wrong for the News of the World. It was then, on the fourth day of Max Mosley’s privacy action, that the paper’s barrister, Mark Warby QC, received the devastating news from his clients. Woman E, the dominatrix paid £12,000 to secretly film Mosley in a sadomasochistic orgy, wasn’t coming to court that morning to appear as the paper’s star witness after all. ‘Her emotional and mental state is such that it would not be fair or reasonable to call her to give evidence’, Warby told the judge, Mr Justice Eady.”
The Guardian, 25th July 2008
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
“A man who sued a former school friend for creating a fake profile on the social networking site has won his libel case”
The Times, 24th July 2008
Source: www.timesonline.co.uk
“Max Mosley has won his High Court privacy action against the News of the World, the newspaper which accused him of taking part in a Nazi-style orgy.”
The Times, 24th July 2008
Source: www.timesonline.co.uk
“Tiscali, the Italian broadband operator currently up for sale, is suing BT for ‘defamation and malicious falsehood’ after the telecommunications group wrote to Tiscali’s customers trying to persuade them to switch to BT’s broadband service.”
The Times, 23rd July 2008
Source: www.timesonline.co.uk
“A UK-based Arabic newspaper has apologised to the prime minister of the Gulf state of Qatar after it admitted printing three ‘wholly untrue’ articles about him secretly visiting Israel.”
The Guardian, 21st July 2008
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
Warren v The Random House Group Ltd [2008] EWCA Civ 834; [2008] WLR (D) 242
“Only in exceptional circumstances would the court permit a defendant to resile from an offer of amends made and accepted in a libel action.”
WLR daily, 17th July 2008
Source: www.lawreports.co.uk
Please note once a case has been fully reported in one of the ICLR series the corresponding WLR Daily summary is removed.
“Madeleine McCann suspect Robert Murat says he feels ‘vindicated’ after reaching a £600,000 settlement from 11 British newspapers in a libel claim.”
BBC News, 17th July 2008
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
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