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Money has always been the curse and the blessing behind the law of libel: are SLAPPs the latest silver bullet? Edward Garnier reviews David Hooper’s “Buying Silence”

December 22, 2023 / / 0 Comments

Cover buying silenceDavid Hooper, now retired from practice as a media lawyer, but who has certainly not lost his touch for adventure, has written a good book about some bad people. These are people who have used their financial might with the assistance of some greedy lawyers to stop the truth from getting into the public domain. Continue reading

Serbian Forum Shopper in breach of his duty of full and frank disclosure has permission to serve libel and privacy claim set aside – David Hooper

December 13, 2015 / / 0 Comments

David HooperOn 23 November 2015, in the case of Ahuja v Politika Novine ([2015] EWHC 3380 (QB)) Sir Michael Tugendhat set aside an order for service out of the jurisdiction of proceedings for the misuse of private information and libel which had been made by Master Roberts on 31 March 2015 in respect of an article in Politika, a Serbian language newspaper circulating in Serbia and neighbouring countries in hard copy and available in this country only on the internet.  Continue reading

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