Blake and others (respondents) v Fox (appellant)
Monday 28 – Tuesday 29 July 2025
By Appellant’s Notice filed on 2 July 2024, the Defendant appeals the orders made by Collins Rice J dated 5 February 2024 and 25 June 2024, sitting in the Media and Communications List.
In the February order (liability order) the judge awarded judgment to C1 (Simon Blake) and C2 (Colin Seymour) on their claims and dismissed the D’s (Laurence Fox) counterclaims.
In the June order (remedies order) the judge ordered:
(a) that D must not publish or cause to be published any statement claiming that C1 or C2 is a paedophile
(b) D shall pay costs to C1 and C2.
The background to the claim is an exchange of Tweets. The Claimants called D a racist. D responded by calling them paedophiles but within an hour clarified his position about mutually baseless claims and the next day he deleted his tweets and later apologised.
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Day 1
Day 2