Government to end success fees in change to ‘no-win, no-fee’ legal agreements that plagued media publishers
Lawyers working on no-win, no-fee agreements will no longer be able to claim success fees from the losing parties in…
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European Court of Human Rights rules Hungarian news website not liable for hyperlinking to defamatory content
The European Court of Human Rights has today ruled that a Hungarian news website should not be found liable for hyperlinking…
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Supreme Court told by Evening Standard publisher that libel claimants must show evidence of serious harm
A lawyer for the Independent and Evening Standard has argued against a landmark Court of Appeal ruling last year which…
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Arabic news website pays out to prince over ‘seriously defamatory’ claims he plotted against king
A Moroccan prince has received an apology and substantial damages from an Arabic-language news site based in London after it…
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Judge will hear ex-police chief’s libel suit against claim he grabbed Daily Mirror journalist’s phone records
A former police chief’s libel action against the Daily Mirror over allegations that he was involved in the illegal interception…
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Elton John accepts ‘significant’ libel damages over Sun on Sunday dog attack story
Sir Elton John and David Furnish have accepted “significant” libel damages over a newspaper claim that their dog inflicted “Freddy Krueger-like injuries”…
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Associated Newspapers agrees to pay substantial libel damages to lawyer over ‘devastating attack’ on her reputation
Mail on Sunday publisher Associated Newspapers has apologised at the High Court and agreed to pay substantial libel damages to…
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BBC wins libel battle against Imam after Sunday Politics show ‘extremism’ comments
The BBC has won a libel case against an imam it claimed had “hailed jihad as the greatest of deeds”…
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