UK: Supreme Court dismisses newspapers’ Article 10 CFA appeals
by Tobias Raab
The UK Supreme Court has dismissed three appeals based on Article 10 CFA on 11 April 2017 (Times Newspapers Limited v Flood (Case No. A2/2014/0120), Miller v Associated Newspapers Limited (Case No. HQ09X04347) and Frost and others v MGN Limited ([2016] EWHC 855).
Each of the three appellants sought an order for costs made by a High Court decision against a newspaper publisher following trial. Some involved allegations that the newspaper had libelled the claimant, some involved that the newspaper had unlawfully gathered private information about the claimants by hacking into their phone.
Each newspaper had been ordered to pay…
