The WLR Daily case summaries
[2019] WLR (D) 523
Privy Council
Simon and others v Lyder and another
[on appeal from the Court of Appeal for Trinidad and Tobago]
[2019] UKPC 38
2019 June 18; July 29
Lord Wilson, Lord Carnwath, Lady Black, Lord Briggs, Lady Arden JJSC
Defamation— Libel— Cause of action— Claimants bringing libel proceedings relying on subsequent articles to complete cause of action based on words in earlier articles— Judge finding earlier articles defamatory in nature but subsequent articles not identifying claimants as subjects of earlier articles— Whether aggregate earlier defamatory statements in which subjects unnamed with subsequent statements identifying subjects to complete cause of action