Sentences with phrase «libel action against»

The arrogance or insensitivity which led Archer to launch a libel action against the might of Fleet Street on the basis of a falsehood is hard to understand but he nearly got away with it.

A few months before her appointment as general counsel, York settled a libel action against Toronto Life magazine.

In New York Times Co. v. Sullivan, supra, a city official instituted a civil libel action against four clergymen and the New York Times.

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...

Respondent then filed this libel action against petitioner in the Florida Circuit Court.

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.

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.

But now, as Professor Bainbridge and many other bloggers report, another law firm, this time Nashville firm King and Barlow, has drawn the ire of other bloggers for threatening a libel action against blogger Kat Coble unless she removes something that offended one of the firm's clients.

Both Kay and the newspaper subsequently settled a libel action against them.

Mr Cruddas was dismissed from the role after the Sunday Times reported that he was charging # 250,000 to meet Mr Cameron but has since won a libel action against the newspaper.

Former government chief whip Mitchell lost his libel action against News Group Newspapers over The Sun's reporting of the «Plebgate» incident.

The police officer at the centre of the so - called «Plebgate» incident has accepted # 80,000 damages in settlement of his libel action against former Government chief whip Andrew Mitchell.

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.

Former cabinet minister Tim Yeo has lost his libel action against the Sunday Times, with the judge comparing him to a fish wriggling on a hook.

Former cabinet minister Tim Yeo has lost his libel action against the Sunday Times, with the judge...

Not exact matches

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Former Conservative MP Louise Mensch has strongly criticised a judge's decision to find against Andrew Mitchell in his libel action over The Sun's reporting of the «Plebgate» incident, describing it as an «appalling miscarriage of justice».

As to why the proceedings were filed in Texas rather than in the libel - suit - friendly United Kingdom, they said that «any action brought against the BMJ and Mr. Deer in London would have been immediately vulnerable to being struck out as an abuse of process.»

His step - mother, uber - socialite Dede Wilsey, threatened legal action against his publisher (after excerpts had run in the New York Times and San Francisco Chronicle) in an attempt to stop publication of the book on the basis that there were more than 30 «actionably defamatory statements of fact... which constitute libel per se» (and that was just in the excerpts!).

Lewandowsky falsely linked climate skeptics to moon landing hoaxism, and free marketeers to rejection of beliefs they overwhelmingly endorsed, so I guess an enterprising lawyer could think about a class action civil suit for libel (I'm not sure if there's ever been a class action libel action), against the researchers and the journal.

And also, more germanely to this story, the recent victim of an expensive libel action brought against him by the British Chiropractic Association (BCA).

It replaces the common law defence of «fair comment» with the statutory defence of «honest opinion», and takes a potshot at «libel tourism» by providing that the courts should not deal with actions brought against non-UK or non-EU residents unless satisfied it is appropriate to do so.

The respondent, Conrad Black, filed six libel actions in the Ontario Superior Court against the ten appellants, who are directors, advisors and a vice-president of Hollinger International, Inc. («International»).

Subsection 38 (2) of the Trustee At preserves tort actions against deceased persons, except for libel and slander.

Thanks John G. Ivor Shapiro of The Canadian Journalism Project pointed that out just last week, that fear libel action is «a useful corrective against recklessness.»

Acted for successful Claimant in action for libel against Ken Bates regarding the takeover and subsequent management of Leeds United.

His reported cases include RH Green & Silley Weir v BR (limitation period against 3rd party), de Bry v Fitzgerald (security for costs), Hartt v Newspaper Publishing (libel concerning a work by Michelangelo), Pearson v Sanders Witherspoon (valuation of loss of chance), Siebe Gorman v Pneupac (status of consent orders), Senate Electrical v NTL (liability of an employee for acquisition warranties) and Bendell v Smith & Others (a successful recovery action by a lender on a shared appreciation mortgage equity release — the only such case to go to trial).

My then firm was acting for a Conservative member of Parliament, Sir Geoffrey Johnson Smith, in an action against the Church of Scientology for libel.

«We reserve the right to take necessary legal action against any parties who libel our company and reputation by any means,» the company said.