“In Antony and another v Sivakumar, Richard Spearman QC, sitting as a deputy judge of the High Court, delivered an ex tempore judgment in which he ordered the defendant to pay both claimants £15,000 in damages. The Defendant had published a pseudonymous Facebook ‘review’ on the Claimants’ business page which made a false allegation of paedophilia. The Claimants sought Norwich Pharmacal relief against Facebook and subsequently against three telecoms providers in order to seek to establish the individual responsible for the comment, before commencing proceedings against the Defendant …” (more)
[Max Campbell, Inforrm’s Blog, 6 December]
First posted 2020-12-06 04:01:20
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