July 2, 2021
LONDON: Prime Minister Imran Khan’s former Special Assistant and Minister for Overseas Pakistanis Zulfi Bukhari has won the first round of defamation case against Reham Khan, a broadcaster and former wife of PM Imran Khan.
At a trial of preliminary issues before the London High Court, Mrs Justice Karen Steyn determined the meaning of eight publications complained by Zulfi Bukhari including a YouTube broadcast on Roosevelt Hotel by Reham Khan carrying four allegations and four tweets, retweets. Justice Steyn did not accept Khan’s assessment of the publications’ meaning and accepted Zulfi Bukhari’s submission instead.
The defamation claim started over a YouTube broadcast made by Reham Khan on December 6, 2019 from the UK’s jurisdiction, alleging that Bukhari had personal interest in the sale of Manhattan’s Roosevelt Hotel, owned by Pakistan International Airlines (PIA). She further charged that Pakistan’s national assets were being sold to help people lik
Daily Mail seeks more time to submit evidence in Shahbaz Sharif defamation case
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Saturday May 08, 2021
LONDON: The lawyers for Mail on Sunday and reporter David Rose have approached the London High Court seeking more time to file a defence in the defamation case brought against them by former Punjab chief minister Shahbaz Sharif and Imran Ali Yousaf, his son-in-law.
Court sources have confirmed that lawyers for the Associated Newspapers Limited (ANL), publishers of
Daily Mail and
Mail on Sunday, sought four more months to gather evidence from Pakistan.
Justice Sir Matthew Nicklin at the London High Court had set a timetable in the first week of February 2021 asking the paper to submit the evidence by the end of April 2021. Last week, the lawyers for the paper made an application to the court seeking two more months.
Shahbaz successful at first round in defamation case
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February 7, 2021
LONDON: The London High Court has ruled in favour of Shahbaz Sharif and his son-in-law in relation to the meaning of reporter David Rose’s article published on July 14, 2019 in which it was alleged that Shahbaz Sharif and his son-in-law were involved in money-laundering and embezzlement of the British money meant for Pakistan’s poor people.
Justice Sir Matthew Nicklin at the London High Court ruled that Mail on Sunday’s article carried the highest level of defamatory meaning for both Shahbaz Sharif and Imran Ali Yousaf. The Daily Mail had contested that the words used in the article were not defamatory but the judge ruled that the level of defamation to Shahbaz Sharif was Chase level 1 – the highest form of defamation in English law – on all counts raised by Sharif’s lawyers in their arguments and Imran Yousaf’s defamation was Chase Level 1 in one instance and Chase Level 2 in another.
Akbar rebukes PML-N for claiming victory in Daily Mail case
PM’s aide says only first phase of defamation case has been completed and final outcome is yet to come
ISLAMABAD:
Prime Minister’s Advisor on Accountability Shahzad Akbar has dismissed claims made by Pakistan Muslim League Nawaz (PML-N) leaders over alleged victory in the defamation case against British newspaper
Daily Mail.
In 2019, PML-N President and Leader of Opposition in National Assembly Shehbaz Sharif had served a legal notice on the British daily and its journalist David Rose for accusing him of embezzling public funds.
According to the legal notice, “The article is gravely defamatory of Shehbaz, including false allegations that he misappropriated UK taxpayers’ money in the form of Department for International Development (DFID) aid intended for the victims of the devastating 2005 earthquake in Pakistan. Shehbaz denies these allegations.”