A cheery post on the HM Courts and Tribunals Service blog recently announced that developers were now working on on Making hearing lists more accessible to court and tribunal users This is long overdue. HMCTS has had court listings on its list, as it were, ever since it began its massive £1bn+ modernisation and digitisation programme back in 2016. Continue reading
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Last week saw the start of the much anticipated “WAGatha Christie” libel trial between Rebekah Vardy and Coleen Rooney before Steyn J in Court 13 at the Royal Courts of Justice. Continue reading
The much-anticipated defamation trial between Rebekah Vardy and Colleen Rooney, dubbed the “WAGatha Christie trial,” is due to start this week. Sky News, Guardian, and Times are some of many that cover provide summaries of the trial history to date. Listen to the Guardian’s Today in Focus summary of the trial (Part 1 and Part 2). Read past Inforrm comment pieces on the trial here and here. Continue reading
Twitter has accepted Elon Musk’s offer to buy the platform for $44bn and take the company private. The Financial Times, TechCrunch, Verge, BBC, New York Times and Reuters are just some of the many to publish responses to the news. There are emerging privacy concerns based on Musk’s comments regarding the future of the platform. Continue reading
The Easter Legal Term begins tomorrow, 26 April 2022 and will end on 27 May 2022. This term will see the long awaited trial in the so-called, “Wagatha Christie” libel case, Vardy v Rooney which is due to commence on 9 May 2022 and is listed for 7 days. As we mention below, judgment was given in the PTR last week.
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The National Archives has launched a new free online service to provide access to new court and tribunal decisions. From today court judgments from the superior courts in England Wales are being sent to the National Archives made available on the database. Continue reading
On 25 March 2022 the managing judge, Fancourt J, dismissed an application by News Group Newspapers Limited (“NGN”) to end the managed phone hacking litigation (known as “MTVIL”). His judgment ([2022] EWHC 891 (Ch) [pdf]) provides a useful summary of the history and current state of the litigation. Continue reading
On 7 April 2022, the Attorney General was granted an interim injunction restraining the BBC from broadcasting a programme that identified an alleged MI5 covert human intelligence source (“X”), Attorney General v British Broadcasting Corporation [2022] EWHC 380 (QB). Continue reading
The Sun has settled a defamation claim brought by an immigration solicitor it accused of “shamelessly touting” a price list of legal aid fees for migrants arriving in small boats. It has agreed to pay “a very substantial five-figure sum” to cover damages and costs and has published a correction on its website. There was a piece on the Doughty Street Chambers website about the case. Continue reading
There has been a steady rise in the popularity of claims brought in data protection in recent years from large scale group litigation arising from mass data breaches to individual claimants seeking redress for inaccuracies published about them. In the first 10 months of 2021, there were 289 new data protection claims issued in the Media and Communications List. This amounts to an average of 29 new claims each month. Continue reading
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