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KB-2022-003483 - [2025] EWHC 1912 (KB)
Fecha: 25-Jul-2025
The Defendant
The Defendant
The Defendant is an online journalist based in Milton Keynes. He reports via his dedicated YouTube and Facebook platforms, to which viewers can subscribe to watch reports on current affairs, politics and sport. His output is aimed specifically at the Kashmiri and Pakistani communities in Pakistan, the United Kingdom and more widely. When the Particulars of Claim were pleaded in February 2023, the Defendant’s YouTube channel had 192,000 subscribers and his Facebook page had 723,000 followers. The Defendant said that both have increased substantially since that time and that his combined followers now significantly exceed one million people. He accepted that he is famous amongst the Kashmiri and Pakistani community in the United Kingdom.
- Heading
- Introduction
- The evidence before the Court
- The uncontentious facts
- The Defendant
- The 28 October 2021 press conference
- The videos
- The words complained of
- The Short Video
- The legal framework
- Serious harm
- Publication on a matter of public interest
- Damages
- Injunctive relief
- Publishing a summary of the judgment
- Defamatory meaning
- The Claimants’ case
- Analysis and conclusions
- Fact or opinion and defamatory at common law
- Serious harm
- Analysis and conclusions
- Publication on a matter of public interest
- The submissions
- Analysis and conclusions
- Remedies
- Injunctive relief
- Summary of the judgment
- Conclusions