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KB-2023-000257 - [2024] EWHC 647 (KB)
Fecha: 21-Mar-2024
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MEDIA AND COMMUNICATIONS LIST
Royal Courts of Justice
Strand, London, WC2A 2LL
Before :
MR JUSTICE CHAMBERLAIN
Between :
FRANK SINTON | Claimant |
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(1) MAYBOURNE HOTELS LIMITED (2) MARC SOCKER (3) GIANLUCA MUZZI (4) FADY BAKHOS (5) MICHELE FAISSOLA | Defendants |
Adrienne Page KC and Alexandra Marzec and Felicity McMahon (instructed by WP Tweed & Co.) for the Claimant
Guy Vassall-Adams KC and Ian Helme and Aidan Wills (instructed by Stephenson Harwood LLP) for the Defendants
Hearing dates: 19th & 20th December 2023
Approved Judgment
This judgment was handed down remotely at 10.00am on 21 March 2024 by circulation to the parties or their representatives by e-mail and by release to the National Archives.
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MR JUSTICE CHAMBERLAIN
Mr Justice Chamberlain:
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- Introduction
- Key facts
- The defendant’s case on the summary judgment/strike-out applications
- Summary judgment: the principles
- Issue (1): Publication
- Submissions for the claimant
- Discussion
- Issue (2): Serious harm/defamatory impact
- Submissions for the claimant
- Discussion
- Grounds 3 and 4: Qualified privilege and malice
- Submissions for the claimant
- Discussion
- Ground (5): Malicious falsehood
- Submissions for the claimant
- Discussion
- Issue 6: Abuse of process
- Conclusions