CA-2024-001499 - [2025] EWCA Civ 1321

Fecha: 17-Oct-2025

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Neutral Citation Number: [2025] EWCA Civ 1321

Case No: CA-2024-001499

IN THE COURT OF APPEAL (CIVIL DIVISION)

ON APPEAL FROM THE HIGH COURT OF JUSTICE

KING’S BENCH DIVISION

MEDIA & COMMUNICATIONS LIST

Mrs Justice Collins Rice

[2024] EWHC 146 (KB)

[2024] EWHC 956 (KB)

Royal Courts of Justice

Strand, London, WC2A 2LL

Date: 17/10/2025

Before :

LORD JUSTICE DINGEMANS. Senior President of Tribunals

LADY JUSTICE ELISABETH LAING
and

LORD JUSTICE WARBY

Between :

(1) SIMON BLAKE

(2) COLIN SEYMOUR

(3) NICOLA THORP

Respondents/ Claimants/

Defendants to Counterclaim

- and –

LAURENCE FOX

Appellant/

Defendant/

Counterclaimant

Patrick Green KC, Alexandra Marzec and Greg Callus (instructed by Gateley Legal) for the Appellant

Adrienne Page KC, Godwin Busuttil and Beth Grossman (instructed by Patron Law) for the Respondents

Hearing dates: 28 and 29 July 2025

Approved Judgment

This judgment was handed down remotely at 10.00am on 17 October 2025 by circulation to the parties or their representatives by e-mail and by release to the National Archives.

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