KB-2023-003483 - [2025] EWHC 1799 (KB)
Fecha: 14-Jul-2025
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MEDIA AND COMMUNICATIONS LIST
Royal Courts of Justice
Strand, London, WC2A 2LL
Before:
MRS JUSTICE HILL
Between :
(1) XIULING WEI (2) WEIGUO WANG (3) YIPENG WANG (4) ANASTASIIA MARCHUK | Claimant |
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(1) JINGPING LONG (2) DNC HOLDINGS INC (3) GATECHINA INC (4) PORKBUN LLC | Defendant |
Dan Stacey appeared for the Claimants
Greg Callus and Katya Pereira (instructed by Greenberg Traurig, LLP) for the Third Defendant
Hearing date: 12 June 2025
Written submissions on consequential matters: 11 July 2025
Approved Judgment
This judgment was handed down remotely at 2:00 pm on 14 July 2025 by circulation to the parties or their representatives by e-mail and by release to the National Archives.
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MRS JUSTICE HILL
Mrs Justice Hill:
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- Introduction
- The legal framework
- The factual background
- The procedural history
- Issue, service and acknowledgement of the claim and the Claimants’ Part 18 application
- Events between 14 May 2024 and 11 December 2024, including the Claimants’ s.13 application
- The 12 December 2024 hearing and events thereafter
- The Notice of Discontinuance and events thereafter
- (i): D3’s provision of information to the Claimants
- (ii): D3’s deletion of the allegedly defamatory posts at the request of the Claimants
- (iii): The merits of the Claimants’ claim against D3
- (iv): Alleged unreasonable conduct by D3
- Overall conclusion with respect of the CPR 38.6 presumption
- Summary assessment
- Conclusion in respect of CPR 38.6
- Consequential matters
- A payment on account of costs and time for making any such payment
- Conclusions