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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
The legal framework
The legal framework
A claimant must establish on a balance of probabilities that the defendant was responsible for the publication of the words complained, that the words referred to him and that they were defamatory.
- Heading
- 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