The defendant applied for summary judgement in his favour. The defendant had submitted to the Bar Standards Board a statement complaining of the claimant barrister’s professional conduct. The Board had later suspended the claimant after findings against him.
Held: The claim was struck out. The proceedings were out of time and an abuse of process, being designed to attack or undermine the decision of a court of competent jurisdiction by re-litigating the matters already decided.
Judges:
Sharp J
Citations:
[2011] EWHC 844 (QB)
Links:
Jurisdiction:
England and Wales
Cited by:
Cited – Vaughan v London Borough of Lewisham and Others QBD 11-Apr-2013
The claimant sought an order to restrain anticipated defamatory comments and evidence to be given to an employment tribunal.
Held: It could not be said as the claimant asserted that dfeences were bound to fail, and no determination should be . .
Lists of cited by and citing cases may be incomplete.
Defamation
Updated: 11 June 2022; Ref: scu.431733
