QB-2022-001397 - [2025] EWHC 2193 (KB)

The Guardian gave notice, in its skeleton argument exchanged prior to the PTR, of its application for a ruling that certain parts of the witness statements served by the Claimant are inadmissible and should be struck out. The application was adjourned to the start of the trial and I heard it over the course of the first two days of the trial. In his oral submissions, Mr Williams made concessions in respect of numerous passages, and I gave an ex tempore judgment on 6 March 2025 on the admissibility of passages that remained in dispute: Clarke v Guardian [2024] EWHC 994 (KB).