QB-2022-001397 - [2025] EWHC 2193 (KB)
Fecha: 22-Ago-2025
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MEDIA AND COMMUNICATIONS LIST
Royal Courts of Justice
Strand, London, WC2A 2LL
Before:
THE HON. MRS JUSTICE STEYN DBE
Between:
NOEL ANTHONY CLARKE | Claimant |
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GUARDIAN NEWS AND MEDIA LIMITED | Defendant |
Philip Williams, Arthur Lo and Daniel Jeremy (instructed by The Khan Partnership LLP) for the Claimant
Gavin Millar KC, Alexandra Marzec and Ben Gallop (instructed by Wiggin LLP) for the Defendant
Hearing dates: 5-7 March 2025; 10-14 March 2025; 17-21 March 2025; 24-28 March 2025; 31 March - 4 April 2025; 11 April 2025
Approved Judgment
This judgment was handed down remotely at 10.30am on 22 August 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 Steyn:
- Heading
- Index
- Post-trial submissions regarding the meaning of the meanings
- Pleadings, meaning trial and listing of the trial
- Disclosure and Inspection
- Exchange of witness statements
- Pre-trial review
- Mr Clarke’s application to strike out the defence
- The Guardian’s application to summons Arnold Oceng
- The Guardian’s application to call ‘Ivy’
- Mr Clarke’s application to re-amend the Amended Reply
- Mr Clarke’s application to rely on his second witness statement
- The Guardian’s application for evidence to be ruled inadmissible
- Mr Clarke’s Transcripts Application
- Mr Clarke’s Redactions Application
- Mr Clarke’s withdrawn applications to serve witness summaries and summonses
- Mr Clarke’s application for special measures
- The Guardian’s application to call ‘Anita’
- Applications on the disclosure of explicit photographs of ‘Ivy’
- The Guardian’s application for Mr Moore to give evidence by video link
- Post-hearing submissions
- Mr Clarke’s live witnesses
- Arnold Oceng
- Hearsay statements from the Claimant’s witnesses
- The Guardian’s live witnesses: truth defence
- The Guardian’s hearsay witnesses: truth defence
- The Guardian’s live witnesses: public interest defence
- Overview
- The initial group of seven
- The Guardian’s team
- The sources for the first article
- Alleged involvement of Adam Deacon
- The Hostility Issue
- The Verification Issue
- The Contamination Issue
- The Reply Issue
- The Deletion Issue
- Conclusions