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Apsion v Butler: QBD 23 Feb 2011

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:

Bailii

Jurisdiction:

England and Wales

Cited by:

CitedVaughan 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

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