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Happy Centenary Birthday to Scott v Scott

Eric Barendt Emeritus Professor of Law, University College London.
Pages 297-305 | Published online: 07 May 2015

  • [1913] AC 417.
  • See in particular the important decision of the House of Lords in AG v Leveller Magazine [1979] AC 440.
  • R (on the application of Mohamed) v Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs [2011] QB 218 (CA).
  • See, for example, the decisions of the High Court of Australia in Russell v Russell (1976) 134 CLR 495 and of the Supreme Court of Canada in Edmonton Journal v AG of Alberta [1989] 2 SCR 1326.
  • Richmond Newspapers Inc v Virginia, 448 US 555 (1980).
  • Practice Guidance issued on 1 August 2011: [2012] EMLR 5, para 10.
  • [2013] EWHC 1360 (Admin), [2013] EMLR 23.
  • Ibid, [26].
  • Ibid, [47].
  • Ibid, [48].
  • Ibid, [45].
  • Re Offcer L [2007] UKHL 36, [2007] 1 WLR 2135.
  • Above, n 7, [52].
  • Ibid, [53].
  • Ibid, [54].
  • SI 2011/2947, r 24(4).
  • R (on the application of M) v Parole Board (n 7) [46].
  • Ibid.
  • Scott v Scott (n 1) 473.
  • See n 10 above.
  • See the arguments for the claimant in R (on the application of M) v Parole Board (n 7) [42].
  • [2010] UKSC 26, [2010] 1 WLR 1652.
  • Carr v News Group Newspapers [2005] EWHC 971 (QB).
  • [2013] EWCA Civ 819, [2013] EMLR 29.
  • Ibid, [28]. See eg JIH v News Group Newspapers Ltd [2011] EWCA Civ 42, [2011] EMLR 15.
  • Global Torch (n 24) [13].
  • See the European Court decisions in Chauvy v France (2005) 41 EHRR 29 and Pfeifer v Austria (2009) 48 EHRR 8. The courts in England have accepted that some attacks on reputation may engage the claimant's rights under Art 8 ECHR; see Re Guardian News and Media [2010] UKSC 1, [2010] 2 AC 697, [42].
  • Re Guardian News and Media Ltd, ibid.
  • Global Torch (n 24) [27].
  • Ibid, [34].
  • In ZAM v CFW; TFW [2013] EWHC 662 (QB), [2013] EMLR 27, Tugendhat J granted a permanent ano nymity order in defamation proceedings to prevent blackmail of the successful claimant.
  • R (on the application of M) v Parole Board (n 7).
  • Campbell v MGN Ltd [2004] AC 457 (HL), [55] per Lord Hoffmann, [113] per Lord Hope, [138]–[140] per Baroness Hale.
  • [2005] 1 AC 593.
  • Ibid, [17].
  • R (on the application of M) v Parole Board (n 7) [47]–[50].
  • Practice Guidance (n 6) [10]–[13], set out in Global Torch (n 24) [22].
  • Ibid, [25].
  • 39 ECHR, Art 6(1).
  • G Robertson and A Nicol, Media Law (Penguin, 5th edn 2008) para 1.014.

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