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King's / Queen's Bench Division of the High Court
KB-2025-000232 - [2025] EWHC 1784 (KB)
Fecha: 15-Jul-2025
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Neutral Citation Number: [2025] EWHC 1784 (KB)
Case No: KB-2025-000232
IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUSTICE
KING'S BENCH DIVISION
MEDIA AND COMMUNICATIONS LIST
Royal Courts of Justice
Strand, London, WC2A 2LL
Date: 15 July 2025
Before :
THE HONOURABLE MRS JUSTICE HEATHER WILLIAMS DBE
Between :
CHRISTOPHER NESS | Claimant |
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JENNIFER MILLER | Defendant |
The Claimant in person
David Hughes and Emma Meadows (acting pro bono via Advocate) for the Defendant
Hearing date: 01 July 2025
Approved Judgment
This judgment was handed down remotely at 10.30am on 15 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 HEATHER WILLIAMS
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- Section 1
- The background
- The pleaded claim in libel
- The litigation
- The “Claimant’s case for Trial of Preliminary Issues” document
- The Defendant’s first two statements
- The unredacted England Athletics emails
- Further Orders and the Defendant’s 26 June 2025 witness statement
- The Defendant’s evidence
- The legal framework
- Publication
- Defamatory meaning
- Reference to the claimant
- The Claimant’s submissions
- The England Athletics emails
- The Defendant’s submissions
- The England Athletics emails
- Analysis and conclusions; the YouTube video
- Merits of the Claimant’s case
- Meaning of the words complained of
- The England Athletics emails
- Natural and ordinary meaning
- Conclusions