On 11 October 2022 a unilateral statement in open court [pdf] was read before Nicklin J in the case of Smith v Backhouse. A former lecturer at University College London Dr Christopher Backhouse paid US academic Dr Erica Smith £49,975 in damages to settle High Court privacy and harassment proceedings. Continue reading
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In a statement in open court read on 15 November 2021 before Mr Justice Nicklin, the Home Secretary apologised to Dr Salman Butt, the editor of Islam 21C, for a press release published on 17 September 2015. Continue reading
On 19 April 2021 a joint statement in open court [pdf] was read before Mrs Justice Collins Rice after Keith Wain and Julie Kelly, both private individuals, accepted an offer of settlement in relation to the misuse of their private information in respect of the filming, making and multiple broadcasts of an episode of the television programme “Can’t Pay? We’ll Take It Away!” . Continue reading
A unilateral Statement in Open Court [pdf] was read on 3 March 2021 before Mr Justice Griffiths, after Dr Elly Hanson, a clinical psychologist, accepted an offer of settlement in relation to false claims by the Mail on Sunday and MailOnline concerning her involvement with Operations Midland and Conifer. Continue reading
Dylan Sadler, a senior solicitor and prosecutor with the Environment Agency in the west of England, has succeeded in his libel action against the owners and operators of the Plants Galore garden centres in Devon. Continue reading
A unilateral Statement in Open Court [pdf] was read today before Mr Justice Nicklin, after The Duke of Sussex accepted an offer of settlement in relation to false claims made by the Mail on Sunday that he had turned his back on the Royal Marines and ignored correspondence from Lord Dannatt, the former Chief of the General Staff. Continue reading
In a Statement in Open Court [pdf] read before Warby J on 16 May 2019 it was recorded that a motorcycle enthusiast had won libel claims against four national newspapers that had falsely claimed he attempted to deceive the public into believing he was a police officer. Continue reading
In statement in open court [pdf] read before Mr Justice Warby yesterday, 24 October 2018, Newsquest Media Group, the publishers of the Argus Newspaper in Brighton, apologised to a Libyan man arrested after the Manchester bombing pilot over an article alleging that he was an ISIS sympathiser who had publicly mourned the death of an ISIS leader. Continue reading
In a statement in open court [pdf] read before Mr Justice Nicklin on 7 March 2018 a customer who made social media posts claiming that a nutrition product contained a dead mouse has apologised to the manufacturer and supplier and has agreed to pay costs and damages. Continue reading
The actor, Hugh Grant, has accepted substantial damages from Mirror Group newspapers after it admitted the unlawful interception of his voicemail messages and the obtaining of private information about him. Continue reading
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