Dr Anton van Dellen is representing the Defendant, Dunya News, in a claim being brought against it by a Pakistani politician. Mrs Justice Collins Rice outlined the approach to determining meaning in foreign language broadcasts. She also held that certain statements were expressions of opinion rather than fact in [...]
Dr Anton van Dellen was instructed by the Claimant who brought a claim to correct his dental records which he claimed were inaccurate. The claim included a dispute over an incident which occurred in the dental surgery and which the Claimant claimed was inaccurately recorded in the dental records. [...]
Dr Anton van Dellen represented a tenant who is bringing a defamation claim against his landlord and another individual. The Claimant claims that defamatory statements were made about him to his electricity provider. The hearing in the High Court granted the Claimant’s application for a claim for an injunction [...]
Dr Anton van Dellen represented a TV broadcasting company who is being sued for defamation by a prominent political figure. In the hearing in the High Court, the Judge ordered that a preliminary trial on meaning be heard on paper only, with sequential written submissions. Anton drew the Judge's [...]
Dr Anton van Dellen represented the Claimant in proceedings involving reports to different statutory agencies. Anton's client had been reported to his professional regulator and the Home Office by his former partner. The hearing was before Mr Justice Saini. Anton was instructed by North Ford solicitors. [...]
The mammoth Judgment in Depp v Heard, sorry Depp v News Group Newspapers has just been handed down by Nicol J after a 16-day trial which took up 5 court rooms at the Royal Courts of Justice. A plethora of incidents were analysed in a judgment which was light [...]
In Serafin v Malkiewicz [2020] UKSC 23 The Supreme Court has approved a fundamental change in the way in which the s.4 public interest defence operates, effectively lowering the threshold at which the defence is engaged and swinging the pendulum towards freedom of speech. Lord Wilson (with whom the four [...]
The Supreme Court heard the case of Serafin v Malkiewicz over 17 and 18 March 2020. The appeal concerned the breadth of the s.4 public interest defence under the Defamation Act 2013 and the extent to which a first instance Judge's conduct could render a trial unfair. Judgment has [...]
Limited Civil Restraint Order in High Court defamation hearing Dr Anton van Dellen represented the Claimant before Mr Justice Saini in a hearing in the High Court to consider whether payment of a costs order would obstruct the Claimant's access to justice and also to consider an application for [...]
Serafin v Malkiewicz [2019] EWCA Civ 852. This case concerns a publication in Polish about Mr Jan Serafin, who had previously been declared bankrupt. The Defendants won at trial before Mr Justice Jay, but the Claimant subsequently successfully appealed on the basis that the public interest defence should not [...]