Hemming -v- Poulton and others (judgment and summary)
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Neutral Citation Number: [2025] EWCA Civ 1494
Case number: CA-2024-001753-A
IN THE COURT OF APPEAL (CIVIL DIVISION)
ON APPEAL FROM THE HIGH COURT OF JUSTICE
KING’S BENCH DIVISION
MEDIA AND COMMUNICATIONS LIST
Susie Alegre (Sitting as a Deputy Judge of the High Court)
[2024] EWHC 1860 (KB)
20 November 2025
Before :
LORD JUSTICE BEAN
(Vice-President of the Court of Appeal, Civil Division)
LORD JUSTICE WARBY
and
LADY JUSTICE FALK
Between:
JOHN ALEXANDER MELVIN HEMMING
Appellant/ Claimant
-v-
(1) SONIA VANESSA POULTON
(2) SAMUEL COLLINGWOOD SMITH
(3) DARREN RICHARD LAVERTY
(Respondent/Defendant
Respondents/
Part 20 Defendants)