“Serafin v Malkiewicz began as an everyday action for libel. A Polish-language magazine edited and published by the defendants had alleged disreputable conduct on the claimant’s part, towards London’s Polish community. Jay J’s decision dismissing Mr Serafin’s libel claim ([2017] EWHC 2992 (QB)) triggered a remarkable sequence of appellate consequences. The Court of Appeal held the judge had been wrong to uphold the defence of publication on a matter of public interest …” (more)
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Jonathan Morgan, ‘Pseudo-Codification of the Public-Interest Defence in Defamation’, Cambridge Law Journal, volume 79, issue 3, November 2020 pp 398-401, DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/S0008197320000653. Published online by Cambridge University Press: 7 December 2020.
First posted 2020-12-09 04:42:57
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