Jaron Lewis, partner in media law at Reynolds Porter Chamberlain LLP, says: «
The costs in libel cases have been out of control for some time.
Not exact matches
Media Legal Defence Initiative, the Open Society Justice Initiative, Index on Censorship, English PEN, Global Witness and Human Rights Watch jointly intervened
in the
case to express serious concern about the
costs of defending
libel and privacy claims
in the UK.
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 court will hear arguments tomorrow
in a
case where a Toronto doctor is appealing a Superior Court decision that dismissed his
libel action against a former head of the Ontario Trial Lawyers Association and ordered him to pay more than $ 310,000
in costs.