Further supplementary written evidence
from the Master of the Rolls
1. I submit this supplementary memorandum
to the Committee in order to further assist the Committee. I set
out information received from Her Majesty's Court Service regarding
publication trials and injunction hearings heard since 2008.
DEFAMATION, PRIVACY
AND MALICIOUS
FALSEHOOD TRIALS
HEARD IN
THE QUEEN'S
BENCH DIVISION
SINCE JANUARY
2008
Date: |
Case Type | Case Title
| Length of trial | Trial Judge
|
January 2008 | Libel |
Trumm v Norman | 2 days |
Tugendhat J |
| February 2008 | Privacy |
A & Another v Priory Healthcare |
Settled after
5 days | Tugendhat J
|
| February 2008 | Libel | Ivereigh v Associated Newspapers Ltd.
| 10 days | Eady J |
| April 2008 | Libel | Sharma v Singh
| 10 days | Eady J |
| May 2008 | Libel | Atlantis World Group v Gruppe Editoriale
| 4 days | Sir Charles Gray |
| July 2008 | Libel | Applause Ltd. v Raphael
| 3 days | Mr. Richard Parkes QC
|
| July 2008 | Privacy | Mosley v News Group Newspapers Ltd.
| 5 days | Eady J |
| October 2008 | Libel | Brady v Norman
| 3 days | Mr. Richard Parkes QC
|
| October 2008 | Libel | Hussein v Farooq
| 1 day | Eady J |
| November 2008 | Libel | Briscoe Mitchell v Hodder & Staughton
| 10 days | Tugendhat J |
| January 2009 | Libel ~ retrial
| Ivereigh v Assoc. Newspapers | 10 days
| Eady J |
| February 2009 | Libel | Ahmed v Shafique
| 5 days | Sharp J |
| March 2009 | Libel | George v News Group Newspapers Ltd.
| 10 days | Sharp J |
| April 2009 | Malicious Falsehood
| Quinton v Peirce | 5 days
| Eady J |
| |
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INJUNCTIONS
Most privacy injunctions are Applications Without Notice
or With Notice with no attendance by defendants: so called John
Doe injunctions. The very nature of this type of application means
that they dealt with over night or at weekends and the court does
not, according to HMCS, keep case records in these instances.
However, HMCS has been able to identify some listed matters which
show the following:
Date | Case title
| Judge | Result
|
9 April 2008 | Mosley v News Group Newspapers Ltd
| Eady J | Refused |
| 17 July 2008 | KKK v Impey
| Eady J | Granted ex parte unopposed
|
| January 2009 | PQR v Pressdram Ltd
| Eady J | Refused ~ Court of Appeal to give judgment 19th May 09
|
| January 2009 | WER v REW
| Sir Charles Gray | Granted
|
| 19 March 2009 | Barclays Bank Plc v Guardian News & Media Ltd
| Ousley J ~ overnight and Blake J next day
| Granted |
| Saturday 28 March 2009 | Nigel Griffiths MP v News Group Newspapers Ltd
| King J | Granted |
June 2009
|
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