The Kaschke-Osler 'Schwarzwälder Kirschtorte' blogosphere libel case - originally due to go to a four-day jury trial from November 23 - has been postponed until the first half of 2010, after Mr Justice Eady granted my application to that effect in the High Court this afternoon. I write this as a public service announcement for the many people who have emailed me to say that they will be turning...
Oscar-winning star 'delighted' at apology over false claim that she lied about her exercise regime Kate Winslet accepted £25,000 libel damages today after an "offensive" claim in the Daily Mail that she had publicly lied about her exercise regime. The Oscar-winning star did not attend the high court in London for the settlement of her action against Associated Newspapers, which publishes...
Just some idiot in a fancy dress costume Mr Justice Eady Libel tourists flock to 'easy' UK courts "An Icelandic professor has emerged as the latest victim of “libel tourism” in Britain after he was sued in the High Court by a wealthy compatriot for a posting on a website based in Iceland".
Marco Pierre White, the TV chef, can proceed with suing a top London firm of divorce lawyers after senior judges ruled that they had a case to answer over the seizure of his private documents.
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The Press Gazette brings news of an estimated £500,000 legal bill in proceedings brought by tennis pro Robert Dee in his libel action against the Telegraph, after the newspaper ran a story headlined: “World’s worst tennis pro wins at last”. Dee says the article means that, at the time of publication, he was the world’s worst [...]
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Condemnation of domestic media laws grows apace. The Guardian, not wholly surprisingly, seems to be behaving like a terrier with a bone as it endeavours to maintain the momentum engendered by the Trafigura case. Today, for example, we find George Monbiot raging against Mr Justice Eady, lambasting him as illiberal, draconian and apparently intent on [...]
How our senior libel judge stamps on free speech – all over the world | George Monbiot | Comment is free | The Guardian . Trafigura’s super-injunction is weird for lots of reasons. But the strangest fact is this: it has nothing to do with the Honourable Mr Justice Eady. The company’s lawyers injuncted the Guardian, [...]
Mr Justice Eady's rulings amplify the democratic world's most illiberal laws – enabled by 12 years of utterly feeble leadership Trafigura's super-injunction is weird for lots of reasons. But the strangest fact is this: it has nothing to do with the Honourable Mr Justice Eady. The company's lawyers injuncted the Guardian, injuncted their injunction, and tried to injunct reports of parliament's...
Mr Justice Eady has got it wrong again in a libel action, says the Court of Appeal . His ruling that Simon Singh’s article in the guardian meant that the British Chiropractic Association (BCA) knowingly promoted bogus treatments has been overturned. Singh has written extensively about the bogus claims of some chiros that their treatments can cure a range of children’s ailments. He wrote...
I know we've been here before, but could the head of steam built up by the Guardian's fight against super-injunctions lead to the longed for reform of Britain's libel laws? At a debate on 'Science Journalism and the Libel Laws' at City University tonight, John Kampfner, chief executive of Index on Censorship , said the organisation would on November 10 be publishing the result of its joint investigation...
Preliminary judgment overturned in libel case brought by British Chiropractic Association A science writer who is being sued for libel by the British Chiropractic Association is to fight on after a preliminary judgment against him was overturned on appeal today. Simon Singh was sued by the BCA after he wrote an article in the Guardian criticising the association for supporting members who claim that...
Simon Singh was wearing his lucky tie today. It worked. News broke at around 10.30 this morning that after a short hearing the Court of Appeal had granted the science writer leave to appeal. He didn't just win on the narrow matter of Mr Justice Eady's definition of the word "bogus", either, but also on the important question of fair comment. So far, so good. It marks a dramatic, and perhaps...
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