UK Government confirms that local authorities should not be able to sue for defamation *

United Kingdom - January 22 2013
The UK Government last week confirmed its view that the bar to local authorities suing for defamation remains intact. Since the case of Derbyshire…

A case of innuendo? *

United Kingdom - November 28 2012
At a preliminary hearing in the case of Fox v Boulter [2012] EWHC 3183, the High Court considered the difference between a claim for defamation based on the “natural meaning” that words will have to an ordinary and reasonable reader, and a claim based on an “innuendo meaning”, which is only apparent to a reader who has knowledge of certain facts that are not generally known.

Getting Aarhus in order *

United Kingdom - December 8 2011
The government plans to make it easier to obtain a protective costs order in environmental cases.

Co-authors: Charles Brasted.