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Julia Kogan v Nicholas Martin & others [2019] EWCA Civ 1645

Court of Appeal The Court of Appeal orders a retrial on a case surrounding disputed joint authorship and highlights serious errors in the...

UPDATE Cape Intermediate Holdings Ltd (Appellant/Cross-Respondent) v Dring (for and on behalf of Asb

https://www.bailii.org/uk/cases/UKSC/2019/38.html Supreme Court considers the scope of a court’s power to allow a non-party access to...

Practice Note: Changes to Media and Communications list, CPR 53, Practice Directions and Pre-Action

1.The following practice note applies to CPR changes regarding media and communications claims that will be enforced from 1st October...

IPSO publishes new guidance for journalists and editors on reporting of major incidents

The Independent Press Standards Organisation (“IPSO”) published new guidance on how journalists should report major incidents, including...

Advertising Standards Authority v Robert Mitchell [2019] EWHC 1469 (QB)

https://www.bailii.org/ew/cases/EWHC/QB/2019/1469.html Have you ever sent an email to the wrong person, realising only moments after...

Spicer v Commissioner of Police of the Metropolis [2019] EWHC 1439 (QB)

In a meaning application the High Court (QB Division) held that an article’s headline, however defamatory, must be read in context, with...

Allen v Times Newspapers Ltd [2019] EWHC 1235 (QB)

https://www.bailii.org/ew/cases/EWHC/QB/2019/1235.html [All numbers in square brackets refer to paragraphs in the judgment]. Background...

Nestlé loses trademark battle for four-fingered Kit Kat shape

On Wednesday 25 July 2018 the European Court of Appeal ruled that Nestlé’s Kit Kat’s shape was not sufficiently distinctive in all...

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