On 11 November 2018 the Court of Appeal handed down the judgment upholding HCJ’s decision in Alexander Economou v David De Freitas. Hanover Bond Law acted for Mr De Freitas who successfully defended on grounds of public interest the defamation claim brought against him by Mr Economou. This was a test case for the public interest defence after section 4(6) of the Defamation Act 2013 had abolished and replaced the common law defence in Reynolds v Times Newspapers [2001] 2 AC 127. The court found that the principles therein identified were still relevant to the interpretation of s 4.
The full judgement is available at the link below
https://www.bailii.org/ew/cases/EWCA/Civ/2018/2591.html