On 8 January 2024, the High Court of Northern Ireland handed down judgment in the case of Kelly v O’Doherty [2024] NIMaster 1 [pdf]. The Master struck out a libel claim brought by former IRA member, Gerry Kelly holding that the claim was “scandalous, frivolous and vexatious.” Continue reading
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On 7 September 2023, the High Court of Northern Ireland delivered judgment in the case of McGettigan v Mannok Holdings [2023] NIKB 90. The Plaintiff, a practising solicitor, claimed that Mannok Holdings had defamed him in three letters to the Law Society of Northern Ireland’s (LSNI) Professional Conduct Committee (PCC), submitted in complaint against him. Continue reading
SLAPPs, Serious Harm, and the Defamation Act (Northern Ireland) 2022 – Ciaran O’Shiel and Tim Carson
While coverage of strategic lawsuits against public participation, or SLAPPs, has been amplified by several high-profile defamation actions in the UK and US in recent months, public discourse on the topic has been gathering pace since the assassination, in October 2017, of the investigative journalist Daphne Caruana Galizia who, at the time of her death, had 47 open defamation cases in progress against her. Continue reading
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