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
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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
In Sir Cliff Richard OBE v the BBC and Chief Constable of South Yorkshire Police ([2017] EWHC 1648 (Ch)), Mr Justice Mann reviewed the law on statements in open court, and the grounds upon which the court might refuse to permit them. Continue reading
Richard Meechan and Jamie MacSween have succeeded in their libel action against FuelDefend Global Ltd and its chairman, Russell Fowler. At the High Court on 28 June 2017 they received a public apology from the defendants. Continue reading
News: Statement in Open Court, World-Check database apologises to Mosque over “terrorism” allegation
In a statement in open court [pdf] read today before HHJ Parkes QC, Thomson Reuters Limited, the publishers of the World-Check database, apologised to Finsbury Park Mosque for publishing a profile report which alleged that there were grounds to suspect that the mosque had continued connections to terrorism. Continue reading
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