07 Mar BREXITEER ARRON BANKS PARTIALLY WINS LIBEL APPEAL AGAINST AWARD-WINNING JOURNALIST CAROLE CADWALLADR
Businessman and Brexiteer Arron Banks has been partially vindicated in his controversial libel case against journalist Carole Cadwalladr....
07 Mar TRUMP ALLY UNSUCCESSFUL IN HIS LIBEL CLAIM AGAINST CNN
Former Congressman, ally of Donald Trump, and regular lawsuit instigator Devin Nunes has lost his defamation case against CNN and its anchor Jake Tapper. Nunes is the CEO of the social media platform Truth Social – a platform founded by Trump in October 2021 after Twitter suspended his account. Nunes sued over a segment on CNN Tonight with Jake Tapper broadcast on 31 October 2022. In the segment Tapper commented on the “spreading” “of offensive and false conspiracy theories” following the violent attack...
02 Aug ROONEY WINS IN “WAGATHA CHRISTIE” LIBEL BATTLE
Coleen Rooney has come out the victor in the long-running libel case brought against her by Rebekah Vardy. The case, dubbed “Wagatha Christie” stemmed from a post from Ms Rooney on Twitter and Instagram about the leaking of stories about her private life to the Sun newspaper....
25 Jul APPEALS FILED IN THE AMBER HEARD AND JOHNNY DEPP DEFAMATION CASE
Two weeks after Amber Heard was denied a request for a re-trial in the defamation case brought against her, she filed an appeal against the verdict in which she was ordered to pay her ex-husband over $10 million. Johnny Depp is also seeking overturn the decision made against him, and has appealed the $2 million award handed to Heard....
05 Jul ARRON BANKS ALLOWED TO APPEAL CAROLE CADWALLADR LIBEL DEFEAT
The multi-millionaire pro-Brexit campaigner Arron Banks has been granted permission to appeal the decision against him in his unsuccessful libel action against Carole Cadwalladr, an investigative journalist for the Observer and Guardian....
17 Jun ARRON BANKS LOSES LIBEL ACTION AGAINST JOURNALIST CAROLE CADWALLADR
Brexit campaigner Arron Banks has lost a libel action he brought against journalist Carole Cadwalladr over a TED talk and a tweet which commented on Mr Banks’ relationship with Russia....
17 Jun PRINCE HARRY AWAITS MEANING OUTCOME IN LATEST CLAIM AGAINST THE MAIL
Prince Harry is awaiting a decision over whether a Mail on Sunday article is defamatory of him. The preliminary hearing is in the Duke’s latest legal claim against Associated Newspapers, the publishers of the Daily Mail, Mail on Sunday and Mail Online....
17 Jun FORMER JUDGE ROY MOORE SEEKS TO REVIVE CLAIM AGAINST SACHA BARON COHEN
Former Alabama judge and Senate candidate Roy Moore has asked a Manhattan appeals court to revive his defamation claim against comedian Sacha Baron Cohen. The claim relates to Sacha Baron Cohen’s comedy series Who is America in which Baron Cohen portrays fictional characters....
25 Feb PRINCE HARRY ISSUES DEFAMATION CLAIM AGAINST ASSOCIATED NEWSPAPERS
Prince Harry, the Duke of Sussex, has this week launched a libel action against Associated Newspapers Limited, publisher of newspapers including the Daily Mail and the Mail on Sunday. It is understood that the latest attack on the British tabloids by Prince Harry relates to an article...
14 May HEARD SEEKS TO HAVE LIBEL CLAIM DISMISSED AHEAD OF 2022 TRIAL
Amber Heard has sought to have Johnny Depp’s $50million (£35.5million) defamation claim in the US thrown out following the failure of his UK claim against the publisher of The Sun, after the trial in the American litigation was pushed back by the Virginia court to 2022....
04 May LAURENCE FOX SUED FOR LIBEL
Actor and London mayoral candidate Laurence Fox is being sued for libel. The lawsuit comes after he called Coronation Street actress Nicola Thorp, Drag Race UK star Crystal and mental health campaigner and deputy chair of Stonewall Simon Blake “paedophiles” on social media. ...
29 Jan RACHEL RILEY SUCCESSFULLY STRIKES OUT DEFENCES TO HER LIBEL CLAIM
TV presenter and Countdown mathematician Rachel Riley has succeeded in her libel claim against journalist and campaigner Michael Sivier, over an article he published on his website headlined: “Serial abuser Rachel Riley to receive ‘extra protection’ – on grounds that she is receiving abuse”....
30 Nov “WAGATHA CHRISTIE” – COURT FINDS TWEET DID ACCUSE REBEKAH VARDY OF GIVING STORIES TO THE SUN
Round one of the libel claim dubbed “Wagatha Christie” has gone to the claimant, Rebekah Vardy. The case was brought by Ms Vardy (wife of England footballer Jamie Vardy) after Colleen Rooney (wife of fellow England footballer Wayne Rooney) wrote a post on Instagram and Twitter about trying to find out who had been providing stories about her private life to The Sun newspaper....
13 Nov JOHNNY DEPP LOSES ‘WIFE-BEATER’ LIBEL CASE
Hollywood superstar Johnny Depp has lost his libel case against the Sun newspaper and its executive editor Dan Wootton over the article ‘Gone Potty: How can JK Rowling be ‘genuinely happy’ casting wife-beater Johnny Depp in the new Fantastic Beasts film?’...
07 Aug THE TIMES APOLOGISES AND PAYS DAMAGES OVER PRE-PAYWALL ARTICLE PREVIEW
The Times has apologised to the former CEO of Al Rayan Bank, Sultan Choudhury OBE, after it published a photo of him online next to a pre-paywall preview of an article that had the headline: ‘Female Circumcision is like clipping a nail, claimed speaker’....