Sentences with phrase «court against a newspaper»

Not exact matches

The court presided over by Justice Norvisi Aryine Tuesday ordered the newspaper to pay the former minister in the Kufuor administration GHc800, 000.00 for defamatory publications made against him.

Fourteen Conservative MPs voted against David Cameron's proposals on press regulation earlier this evening - or, rather, against the amendments to the Crime and Courts Bill which set out proposals for exemplary damages in relation to newspapers and websites that refuse to be regulated by the new regulator.

A couple of days later, some newspapers carried various stories with same content, same wording, obviously by the same writer, accusing ex-Deputy Chief of Staff of being the brain behind the numerous court cases brought against the daughter of the founder of the NDC, to settle personal scores.

A High Court sitting in Kaduna, Thursday in Kaduna, granted stringent bail conditions to a former Bureau Chief with Vanguard Newspapers, Mr. Luka Binniyat, who is standing trial over alleged false publication brought against him by the Kaduna State government.

12.40 pm: Charlotte Church will be one of several high - profile alleged hacking victims to be heard at a trial against News International subsidiary News Group Newspapers and Glenn Mulcaire on 13 February, the court hears.

But Palin's lawyers and those representing the newspaper appeared at Manhattan Federal Court for a hearing in her defamation suit against the media giant.

Representing Mr Mitchell at the High Court, James Price QC today opened the Sutton Coldfield MP's libel action against News Group Newspapers (NGN) over the story.

The Okyenhene, Osagyefo Amoatia Ofori Panin, has filed a suit at the Fast Track High Court against the publishers of The Herald newspaper and three others for accusing him of engaging in illegal mining.

Ironically, in the New York Times case, the Supreme Court decided that the newspaper was protected from liability for an ad it ran that was critical of Alabama officials and their actions against the civil rights movement.

Legal Signe Wilkinson, Pulitzer Prize - winning cartoonist for The Philadelphia Inquirer and Philadelphia Daily News, has been named in a defamation lawsuit filed against the newspapers by Pennsylvania Supreme Court Justice Seamus McCaffery and his wife Lise Rapaport.

But here, the 2nd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals at New York City ruled in 2015 in Martin v. Hearst Corp. that a woman, whose arrest records were expunged under Connecticut's erasure law after prosecutors dropped charges against her, could not force a newspaper to remove stories about her arrest from online archives.

Less than a month after receiving his $ 3.4 million payout of a libel verdict in his favor against the Boston Herald, Massachusetts Superior Court Judge Ernest Murphy has been hit with formal charges of misconduct for writing threatening and intimidating letters to the newspaper's publisher.

Frank Easterbrook, chief judge of the 7th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals, saw the newspaper's video and took out a complaint against the errant judge, who quickly admitted the error of his ways.

Mitchell v News Group Newspapers [2013] EWCA Civ 1537 became a landmark Jackson reforms case after Andrew Mitchell MP's solicitors incurred costs sanctions limiting recoverable costs to the court fees after submitting their budget late in his libel action against the publishers of The Sun newspaper.

The last time this sort of issue came before the Court of Appeal was in Henry v News Group Newspapers [2013] EWCA Civ 19, [2013] 2 All ER 840 where the court granted relief against sanctions under the pre-April regime but warned that it would all be different after 1 ACourt of Appeal was in Henry v News Group Newspapers [2013] EWCA Civ 19, [2013] 2 All ER 840 where the court granted relief against sanctions under the pre-April regime but warned that it would all be different after 1 Acourt granted relief against sanctions under the pre-April regime but warned that it would all be different after 1 April.

That's the question that a California state appeals court recently decided in a case involving a suit by a UC Berkeley student against a local newspaper, which republished a diatribe against the local community the student had posted on her MySpace page.

A court of first instance in Belgium has ruled against Google in a suit by a group of newspapers operating in that country who alleged that Google's News feature violated their copyright.

The court eventually dismissed the charges against the newspaper staff — but on the unrelated ground that the suspect had no expectation of privacy during his telephone interview with the columnist.

Goldhar commenced a defamation action in Ontario against the newspaper, its former sports editor and the author of the article; Haaretz moved to stay the action, arguing that Ontario courts lack jurisdiction simpliciter or, alternatively, that Israel is a more appropriate forum for the action.

«In a unanimous decision, the Supreme Court this week allowed the appeal of Times Newspapers Limited against a decision of the Court of Appeal which had held that held that it could not rely on Reynolds qualified privilege...»

The case against Stephen Boisson, another Christian, a pastor, who wrote a letter to a local newspaper in Red Deer against homosexuality was appealed to the Alberta Court of Queen's Bench who ruled in favour of former - pastor Stephen Boissoin.

After the police released the appellant from arrest without charge, two newspapers applied to lift a Crown Court order postponing his identification in contemporaneous reports of the criminal trial on the ground that there were now no «pending or imminent» proceedings against the appellant that might be prejudiced by publication.

Yesterday's judgment by the Court of Appeal in Coulson v News Group Newspapers (NGN) is good news for those who have a legal expenses insurance policy which they wish to use to defend themselves against an allegation that they have committed a criminal offence.

The trial court dismissed the case against the newspaper under a California's antil - slapp statute.