Defamation

A major new campaign to overhaul Ireland's defamation laws has been launched to coincide with World Press Freedom Day 2019. NewsBrands Ireland, the representative body for major Irish news publishers, claims the Irish laws are among the most restrictive in Europe and the English-speaking world.

A woman sued for defamation by her ex-husband over her claim on Facebook that he “tried to strangle me” has had her appeal unanimously allowed by the UK Supreme Court on the basis an ordinary reader of the post would have interpreted it as meaning the ex-husband had grasped the woman by

The executor of a deceased man's estate has been allowed to continue defamation proceedings he launched before his death. The estate of Sean McEniff, a former councillor and hotelier in Co Donegal, was substituted as plaintiff in the defamation claim under the provisions of the Defamation Act 2009,

Defamation lawyer Paul Tweed has warned that Facebook faces a wave of lawsuits from celebrities whose likenesses are being used without permission in adverts on the social media platform. Mr Tweed is representing RTÉ presenter Miriam O'Callaghan in a High Court case against Facebook over adve

The story of an Irish lawyer who successfully sued the BBC over his portrayal in a 1950s radio adaptation of James Joyce's Ulysses will be the subject of a lecture in Dublin next week. Dublin solicitor Reuben James Dodd Junior launched a lawsuit against the BBC after a June 1954 broadcast of an adap

A legal assistant who sued Irish Rail for defamation after being challenged on her use of an invalid train ticket has lost her case, the Irish Examiner reports. Nicola Dowd, based in Dublin, alleged that ticket inspectors had defamed, embarrassed, intimidated and shamed her in front of other passeng

Shadow Justice Secretary Richard Burgon has won £30,000 in damages from a tabloid newspaper that claimed he had performed with a band which "delights in Nazi symbols". Mr Burgon, MP for Leeds East, launched the unusual libel proceedings against The Sun in connection with a story published in m

Former Justice Minister Patrick Cooney has reached a settlement in his defamation action against The Irish Times. The case was struck out by Mr Justice Bernard Barton in the High Court today after the parties agreed that Mr Cooney would receive an apology, "substantial" damages and his legal costs.