KB-2022-003483 - [2025] EWHC 1912 (KB)

If judgment is entered for the claimant, the Court has a discretion to grant injunctive relief. It is well established that it may do so where it is satisfied that the words are injurious to the claimant and there is reason to apprehend further publication by the defendant: Gatley para 10-040 and the authorities at footnote 302.

Tugendhat J observed in ZAM v CFW [2013] EWHC 662 (QB) that once a final judgment has been entered, a defendant’s right to freedom of expression does not preclude the grant of an injunction, on the contrary “a claimant who succeeds in obtaining a final judgment is normally entitled to a permanent injunction to vindicate the right that he has proved that he has” (para 22). The grant of a final injunction after trial represents “a legitimate and proportionate interference with freedom of expression, necessary for the protection of the reputation of the claimant”: Gatley, para 10-040.