All Libel and defamation articles – Page 6
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NewsCameras roll in new Depp libel battle
Hollywood star sues ex-wife Amber Heard for $50m while she counterclaims for $100m.
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NewsCarter-Ruck gets sale order over former clients’ home
Firm sued couple at centre of a landmark libel case for around £285,000.
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OpinionJohnny Depp tries to clear his name – live on TV
Latest libel case is not quite a rerun of the 2020 London hearing.
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NewsCalls for US travel ban for ‘oligarch lawyers’
Tennessee congressman says six UK lawyers should be banned as ‘foreign enablers of Russian oligarchs’.
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NewsPre-action libel letters need ‘more regulation’, peers told
HarperCollins lawyer says lawyers representing clients ‘seeking to stymie debate’ need to be ‘more objective’.
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NewsThe Sun settles claim from solicitor falsely labelled ‘dinghy chaser’
Immigration lawyer says 2020 newspaper article left her team fearing for their safety.
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NewsLondon lawyers intimidate journalists to protect oligarchs, MPs told
Campaigners against 'SLAPPs' say firms conduct 'war by costs' in order to cover up possible corruption.
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NewsENRC drops second libel claim over ‘dirty money’ allegations
A separate libel claim by the former FTSE 100 company collapsed earlier this month.
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NewsGoogle settles MP’s libel claim over defamatory advert
Lee Anderson sued over a ‘highly defamatory’ advert on the Google Ads platform.
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NewsENRC lashes out at 'xenophobia' as libel claim collapses
Media criticism of legal actions is part of a ‘growing campaign of xenophobia’, mining giant claims.
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NewsLawyer calls for anti-SLAPP legislation after ‘dirty money’ libel claim collapses
Caroline Kean, a partner at Wiggin, says Eurasian Natural Resources Corporation’s case was an ‘egregious form of lawfare’.
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NewsLawyers in ‘Wagatha Christie’ libel case criticised by judge
Mrs Justice Steyn says messages sent by the claimant to her agent ‘ought to have been disclosed’.
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NewsDisbarral for fabricating court order in ‘Trump dossier’ case
Leading media lawyer found to have misled her client by sending him the fabricated order.
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NewsParties urged to end dispute over ‘unattractive Twitter spat’
Senior Master Fontaine says it seems ‘incredible’ to spend ‘hundreds of thousands of pounds on such a pointless exchange’.
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NewsLandmark jurisdiction ruling on data protection and libel claims
Court of Appeal says section 9 of the Defamation Act 2013 does not create a ‘jurisdictional bar which the claimant must overcome’.
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NewsLandmark privacy case begins at Supreme Court
Five justices consider whether someone under criminal investigation can have a reasonable expectation of privacy before they are charged.
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NewsAbramovich wins first round of ‘Putin’s People’ libel claim
Book about Vladimir Putin’s regime is the subject of two libel claims from the Chelsea FC owner and state-owned energy company Rosneft.
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NewsJohnny Depp refused permission to appeal libel ruling
Court of Appeal said actor's challenge had ‘no real prospect of success’, in a judgment handed down this morning.