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....
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. ...
Northern Ireland First Minister Arlene Foster is suing TV’s Dr Christian Jessen over a Tweet of his about an unsubstantiated rumour that Foster was having an affair. Dr Jessen, who has 311,000 Twitter followers, posted the Tweet on 23 December 2019. ...
On 18 November 2019, in the aftermath of Prince Andrew’s sensational Newsnight interview with Emily Maitlis, Lady Colin Campbell appeared on a breakfast TV programme to discuss the car crash interview. ...
Singing superstar Mariah Carey is being sued in New York for $1.25m by her older sister Alison Carey, who says she has been caused “immense emotional distress” by Mariah’s memoir ‘The Meaning of Mariah’....
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”....
Prince Harry, the Duke of Sussex, has brought a defamation claim against the publisher of the Mail on Sunday, over a story alleging that he had failed to maintain contact with the Royal Marines after stepping down from Royal duties in March of this year....
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....
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?’...
Prominent American civil liberties lawyer Alan Dershowitz is suing CNN alleging that it defamed him as a result of the way it edited a comment that he made during Donald Trump’s impeachment trial....
A journalist who claimed that her reputation was damaged by an apology made by the Daily Telegraph to Melania Trump over an article she had written intends to appeal, after a Judge ruled against her at a preliminary hearing....
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’....
Countdown presenter Rachel Riley and actress Tracy-Ann Oberman have withdrawn their libel claim against barrister Jane Heybroek for retweeting a blog post that was critical of them....
The Sydney Daily Telegraph has lost its appeal in the record defamation case brought by actor Geoffrey Rush. Rush brought his claim over allegations that he had behaved inappropriately towards actress Eryn Norvill, who was his co-star in a production of King Lear in 2015....