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Reporting Restrictions in Criminal Cases
Legal Limits on Reporting Criminal Proceedings – A Guide for Journalists and Social Media Users The criminal justice system in England and Wales is founded on the principle of open justice, which holds that court proceedings should ordinarily be open to public scrutiny and reportable by the media. However, there are circumstances in which certain […]
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Malice Qualified Privilege
Malice in Defamation Definition of Malice In the law of defamation, malice denotes a wrongful or improper motive on the part of the defendant in publishing a defamatory statement. It does not simply mean spite or ill-will in the ordinary sense, though those may be examples of malice. Rather, malice is defined as the absence […]
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Ahmadi v Guardian News & Media Ltd
Ahmadi v Guardian News & Media Ltd [2025] EWHC 1191 (KB) Safiullah Ahmadi, an Afghan national, sued the Guardian for libel over an online article published on 18 October 2022 titled “Gay Afghan student ‘murdered by Taliban’ as anti-LGBTQ+ violence rises.” The article reported on the murder of a gay Afghan student (Hamed Sabouri) by […]