Practice areas
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Counsel most often instructed
Judgments by year
Cases later courts cite most
Cases Carter-Ruck acted in that later judgments cite most often.
| Date | Case | Cited by |
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| 14 Dec 2006 |
[2006] EWCA Civ 1714 · Court of Appeal (Civil Division)
Misuse of private information is determined in two stages. The court first asks whether the claimant had a reasonable expectation of privacy. If so, it…
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94 |
| 18 May 2004 |
[2004] EWCA Civ 613 · Court of Appeal (Civil Division)
Where defamatory words may convey both that a person is under investigation and that there are objectively reasonable grounds for suspicion, a justification…
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47 |
| 31 Oct 2017 |
[2017] EWHC 2637 (QB) · High Court: Queen's Bench Division
The repetition rule does not mechanically require a repeated allegation to bear the same, or a guilt-level, meaning as the original allegation. The court must…
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45 |
| 7 Jun 2023 |
[2023] EWHC 1368 (KB) · High Court: King's Bench Division
Each discrete defamatory publication creates a separate cause of action. A claimant complaining of publications to identified individuals must particularise…
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35 |
| 28 Jul 2006 |
[2006] EWCA Civ 1123 · Court of Appeal (Civil Division)
On an appeal concerning security for costs, the court may not set security at a sum which it knows an individual claimant cannot afford, since that would…
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34 |
| 27 Jan 2015 |
[2015] EWHC 127 (QB) · High Court: Queen's Bench Division
A defamation claim concerning publication after 1 January 2014 should ordinarily be assessed first under section 1 of the Defamation Act 2013. The claimant…
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32 |
| 25 Nov 2010 |
[2010] EWCA Civ 1345 · Court of Appeal (Civil Division)
An appellate court reviewing a refusal to adjourn must decide whether the decision was fair. The question is one of law, not whether the first-instance…
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27 |
| 5 Mar 2013 |
[2013] EWCA Civ 152 · Court of Appeal (Civil Division)
The natural and ordinary meaning of an audiovisual publication is determined from the overall impression conveyed to its ordinary reasonable audience. The…
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23 |
| 5 Mar 2009 |
[2009] EWHC 411 (QB) · High Court: Queen's Bench Division
Third-party disclosure is an exceptional jurisdiction and should not be ordered routinely. Under the Civil Procedure Rules 1998, the applicant must show that…
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22 |
| 17 Mar 2003 |
[2003] EWCA Civ 331 · Court of Appeal (Civil Division)
In traditional qualified privilege cases, a relevant communication made within an established relationship attracts privilege irrespective of whether the…
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22 |
Recent cases
| Date | Case | Cited by |
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| 29 Jul 2025 |
[2025] EWHC 1983 (Admin) · High Court: Administrative Court
Section 91 of the Education and Inspections Act 2006 establishes an objective statutory test for the lawfulness of school disciplinary penalties. A penalty…
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1 |
| 30 May 2025 |
[2025] EWHC 1323 (KB) · High Court: King's Bench Division
A truth defence in libel must plead primary facts capable of establishing the substantial truth of the defamatory meaning. Where the meaning alleges reasonable…
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| 25 Feb 2025 |
[2025] EWHC 389 (KB) · High Court: King's Bench Division
In determining whether defamatory statements in a broadcast interview are fact or opinion, the court must assess the programme as a whole and adopt the…
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| 13 Dec 2024 |
[2024] EWCA Civ 1566 · Court of Appeal (Civil Division)
Statutory reporting privilege under section 15 of the Defamation Act 1996 is considered in sequence. The court must first decide whether the report falls…
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6 |
| 25 Oct 2024 |
[2024] EWHC 2706 (KB) · High Court: King's Bench Division
In a libel claim, serious harm may be proved by inference from the gravity and meaning of the allegations, the claimant’s profile, the circumstances and extent…
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| 23 Aug 2024 |
[2024] EWHC 2194 (KB) · High Court: King's Bench Division
A publisher relying on statutory reporting privilege must establish that the publication is a fair and accurate report or extract and that the relevant source…
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| 25 Jun 2024 |
[2024] EWHC 1523 (KB) · High Court: King's Bench Division
Under section 4 of the Defamation Act 2013, a publisher must show both an actual and objectively reasonable belief that publication was in the public interest.…
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7 |
| 19 Apr 2024 |
[2024] EWHC 888 (KB) · High Court: King's Bench Division
In claims for defamation and misuse of private information, the claimant bears the burden of proving publication on the balance of probabilities. There is one…
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1 |
| 9 Apr 2024 |
[2024] EWHC 774 (KB) · High Court: King's Bench Division
In determining the natural and ordinary meaning of a publication, the court must adopt the perspective of the hypothetical reasonable reader or viewer and…
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| 22 Feb 2024 |
[2024] EWHC 389 (KB) · High Court: King's Bench Division
In a defamation claim involving a report of court proceedings, statutory qualified privilege under Defamation Act 1996, section 15 and Schedule 1, is a…
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| 7 Dec 2023 |
[2023] EWCA Civ 1468 · Court of Appeal (Civil Division)
Defamation Act 2013 section 1(1) imposes a factual threshold of serious reputational harm. The court considered that cumulative harm may be assessed where…
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7 |
| 27 Nov 2023 |
[2023] EWHC 3024 (KB) · High Court: King's Bench Division
Statutory reporting privilege may protect a live broadcast of proceedings at a public meeting, but whether a live broadcast is a report is fact-specific. A…
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