Month: February 2011 (Page 5 of 6)

Gary Flood

On 24 January 2011, the Supreme Court gave permission to appeal in the case of Flood v Times Newspapers. Lords Hope, Brown and Mance originally proposed to grant permission on the condition that the “Times” agreed to pay Mr Flood’s costs in any event. The Court has now granted permission on these terms.  The “Times” has to decide whether to pursue the appeal on this basis.  We commented on the Court of Appeal decision at the time and other discussions of it can be found in the “Table of Recent Cases” above. There is a report on the initial permission decision in the Press Gazette. Continue reading

The recent decision of the Mr Justice Christopher Clarke in Wallis v Meredith ([2011] EWHC 75 (QB)) resulted in the Claimant’s case being struck out on the basis that there had been no real or substantial tort following Jameel v Dow Jones & Co Inc ([2005] QB 946).   The Defendant, Mr Meredith, had been an employee of the claimant company which had been founded by Mr Wallis. Following Mr Meredith’s redundancy the relationship between the parties broke down and the Claimants instructed Mishcon de Reya who began to correspond with Mr Meredith on their behalf. Continue reading

Another solicitor has obtained an award of damages against the operator of the “Solicitors from Hell website, Mr Rick Kordowski.   On 1 September 2010 the claimant became aware of statements on the website, running to several pages, which attacked her professional competency, advice and probity.  On 5 October 2010 Ms Farrall obtained an interim injunction to restrain Mr Kordowski from publishing the words complained of (Farrall v Kordowksi [2010] EWHC 2436 (QB)).   Default judgment was subsequently entered. Ms Farrall has now had her damages for libel against Mr Kordowski assessed by a High Court judge. Continue reading