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Former Chief Executive receives Libel apology
21 May 2017
Jacqueline Davies, former Chief Executive of Knowsley Council for Voluntary Service has reached a settlement in her defamation claim against KCVS, Pamela S Ball and Haymarket Media Group Ltd, publisher of Third Sector.... Read more
Defamation and Media Law firm of the year 2017
27 April 2017
Carruthers Law has been announced as the winner of Defamation and Media Law firm of the year 2017 by Finance Monthly magazine in their Finance Monthly Law Awards 2017.... Read more
Undre & Anor v The London Borough of Harrow [2016]
16 November 2016
The matter returned to the High Court to assess compensation since the parties had not been able to come to an agreement following an Offer of Amends.... Read more
Pittville Ltd v Hunters & Frankau Ltd & Anor [2016]
11 November 2016
The matter was heard before Mr Justice Snowden in respect of two Appeals against the decisions made by Deputy Master Cousins on the 14th July 2015 and 29th September 2015... Read more
Ingenious Media Holdings plc & Anor, R (on the application of) v Revenue and Customs [2016]
02 November 2016
This Appeal concerned the duty of confidentiality that HRMC owed tax payers in relation to their tax matters, which is now in statutory form.... Read more
Leap Frog Appeal
29 October 2016
The three Appeals involve two libel privacy matters and phone hacking. The Appeals have provided the three newspaper groups the opportunity to convince the Supreme Court to end recoverable success fees together with ATE premiums in such cases.... Read more
P&P Property Ltd v Owen White & Catlin LLP & Anor [2016]
28 October 2016
The Claimants exchanged contacts and completed on a property in London between November and December 2013, completion taking place on the 12th December 2013. Following completion the Claimants discovered that the seller had committed a fraud as he was not the true owner of the property, he had impersonated the owner.... Read more
Economou v David De Freitas
18 October 2016
This case was the first to look in detail at the defence of public Interest under s4 of the Defamation Act 2013... Read more
Simpson v Mirror Group Newspapers Ltd [2016] EWCA Civ 772
14 October 2016
This matter came before the Court of Appeal after permission was granted by Lord Justice Christopher Clarke on the 18th May 2015 for the Defendant’s to appeal against part of an Order made by Mr Justice Warby in a libel action brought by the Claimant, a Premier League footballer, against the Defendant, the publishers of the Daily Mirror. ... Read more
Easeman v Ford [2016] EWHC 1576 (QB)
11 October 2016
The Claimant is a filmmaker and an activist who has worked within the media for 20 years. His videos have been seen via YouTube in 100 countries and viewed more than 2 million times.The Defendant publishes widely on the internet, is a blogger and activist and has a twitter account with 1,743 followers.... Read more
Winterburn & Anor v Bennett & Anor [2016]
29 May 2016
The Appellants claimed that they had acquired prescription rights for themselves and others over land belonging to the Respondents due to having used the land to park vehicles over many years. ... Read more
PJS v News Group Newspapers Ltd: Dissenting judgement of Lord Toulson.
27 May 2016
In the dissenting judgement handed down in the Supreme Court by Lord Mance, all the Justices apart from Lord Toulson agreed with him. Lord Toulson disagreed with the majority of the Supreme Court. ... Read more
Playboy Club London Limited & Ors v Banca Nazionale Del Lavoro Spa [2016]
24 May 2016
This case was an appeal as to a judgement given by His Honour Judge Mackie [2014] EWHC 2613 (QB), were it was held that the Playboy Club had acted correctly, their bankers had sent the request to Ms Guidetti at the Defendant bank, addressed to the Manager. ... Read more
PJS v News Group Newspapers Ltd [2016] UKSC 26
19 May 2016
Lord Neuberger concluded, that the interlocutory injunction sought by PJS should be granted. He continued,the courts exist to protect legal rights, even when their protection is difficult or unpopular in some quarters.... Read more
