NIPC Law

Century and Harbor Freeway Interchange Author Remi Jouan   Licence CC BY-SA 3.0   Source Wikimedia Commons   Jane Lambert Court of Appeal (Sir Geoffrey Vos MR, Dame Victoria Sharp, President, Lord Justice Bean)  HRH the Duchess of Sussex v Associated Newspapers Ltd [2021] EWCA Civ 1810 (2 Dec 2021) This was an appeal against the decisions of Mr Justice Warby in  HRH The Duchess of Sussex v Associated Newspapers Ltd [2021] EWHC 273 (Ch)  on 11 Feb 2021 and HRH Duchess of Sussex v Associated Newspapers Ltd . [2021] EWHC 1245 (Ch) on 12 May 2021.   I discussed those judgments in  Summary Judgment - Duchess of Sussex v Associated Newspapers   and   Copyright - Duchess of Sussex v Associated Newspapers Ltd   on 12 Feb and 13 June 2021 respectively.  The Litigation The duchess sued the publisher of the Mail on Sunday and the MailOnline after they had reproduced and commented upon large passages from a handwritten letter ...

By Seauton, 24 February 2019 - Own work, CC BY-SA 4.0,  https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=77004919   Jane Lambert Chancery Division (Lord Justice Warby) Duchess of Sussex v Associated Newspapers Ltd [2021] EWHC 510 (Ch) (5 March 2021) On 11 Feb 2021, Mr Justice Warby (as he then was) gave judgment in the Duchess of Sussex's application for summary judgment in her claim for misuse of personal information and copyright infringement.  She was largely successful and I discussed his judgment in  Summary Judgment - Duchess of Sussex v Associated Newspapers   12 Feb 2021. There remained the following issues which the learned lord lustice set out at para [10] of a further judgment ( HRH The Duchess of Sussex v Associated Newspapers Ltd . [2021] EWHC 510 (Ch) (5 March 2021) after a full day's hearing on 2 March 2021: "(1) What are the remaining issues in the action, and what is the most appropriate procedural mechanism for dealing with them? (2) What re...

By Skyring at the English language Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 3.0,  https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=6852664 Jane Lambert Chancery Division (Mr Justice Warby) Duchess of Sussex v Associated Newspapers Ltd ( Rev 1) [2020] EWHC 2160 (Ch) (5 Aug 2020) This was an application by the claimant for an order to restrain the publisher of the Daily Mail and The Mail on Sunday from using information that she had supplied in response to a request for further information under CPR Part 18 about the identity of individuals who had provided information on the claimant in confidence to the US magazine The People  for any purpose other than the defence of a claim that had been brought against it for misuse of personal information, infringement of copyright and breach of the General Data Protection Regulation. The application came on before Mr Justice Warby on 29 July 2020 and he handed down judgment in  Duchess of Sussex v Associated Newspapers Ltd ( Rev ...

Basher Eyre /  Junction of Fetter Lane and Rolls Buildings  /  CC BY-SA 2.0 Jane Lambert Chancery Division (Mr Justice Warby)  Duchess of Sussex v Associated Newspapers Ltd (Rev 1) [2020] EWHC 1058 (Ch) (1 May 2020) This was an application by the publisher of the Mail on Sunday  and the Mail Online  to strike out certain allegations contained in the particulars of claim and further information of the Duchess of Sussex  and later the reply  in an action that she has brought against the publisher for copyright infringement, misuse of private information and infringement of her rights under the General Data Protection Regulation .  The complaint arises from the newspaper's publication of a letter from the duchess to her father on 10 Feb 2019. Nature of the Application It is important to understand from the outset that this was a procedural application and that no decision has been made on the merits of the Duchess o...