25/05/2021
The great Irish playwright, critic, polemicist, political activist, and Nobel Prize winner, George Bernard Shaw, had little time for the rules of grammar, and certainly had no love for the apostrophe. But some of us beg to differ, and last week, a High Court judge agreed that ...
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11/05/2021
Last week saw the latest development in the Duchess of Sussex’s case against the publisher of the Mail and Mail on Sunday, Associated Newspapers Limited (ANL), with the Duchess winning the copyright element of the claim.
The Duchess of Sussex’s claim is for breach ...
Read more about Meghan Markle’s latest court win and the rise of multi-faceted claims
27/04/2021
The line between statements of fact and opinion can be a fine one. And what about the threshold for a statement to be considered defamatory at common law? The Court of Appeal judgment in the case of Richard Millett v the Right Honourable Jeremy Corbyn MP provides a ...
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