A third solicitor has won an interim injunction against the owner of Solicitors from Hell, the website that blacklists lawyers and law firms, following successful court actions from two other lawyers in recent weeks.

Megan Phillips, solicitor at London firm Bhatt Murphy, was awarded summary judgment and £45,500 in damages and costs before Mr Justice Eady on 11 October. She also won an injunction against the site’s owner Rick Kordowski restraining further publication of ­allegations on solicitorsfromhell.co.uk. Kordowski said the allegations naming Phillips had been posted by a convicted cyber-stalker.

Phillips’ success followed that of two other solicitors. On 23 September, Anna Mazzola, partner at London firm Hickman & Rose, was awarded an interim injunction against Kordowski by Mr Justice Edwards-Stewart. On 1 October, Mr Justice Tugendhat granted an interim injunction against Kordowski on behalf of Juliet Farrall, solicitor at London firm McCormacks.

In his judgment published on 5 October, Tugendhat said: ‘It is well known that it is rare for the court to grant injunctions on interim applications in defamation actions. However, the court has jurisdiction to do so and will do so in accordance with section 12 of the Human Rights Act in an appropriate case.’

Meanwhile, the Gazette has learned that Kordowski has negotiated a tip-off deal with the long-established Caters News Agency, which plans to send reporters and photographers to complainants’ houses with a view to publishing their stories. A source inside Caters said: ‘We’re going to follow up a couple of cases that will fly into the nationals.’

Caters has strong ties with UK national newspapers and national magazines, as well as a number of international publications. Kordowski said that he and Caters were aiming to follow up ‘two or three’ leads per week.

He added that he has now removed the option for solicitors and firms to pay a £299 ‘administration and monitoring’ fee to remove all current and future traces of their name from his site. ‘It seems that solicitors prefer to spend upwards of £28,000 in [legal] costs instead,’ Kordowski said.