Davidoff v Google LLC

Subject Matter

PRACTICE — Disclosure — Action for — Claimants’ business receiving numerous bad reviews on review website from accounts it suspected to be fake — Accounts in question registered with e-mail addresses on defendant’s e-mail platform — Claimants seeking to advance claims in defamation and malicious falsehood — Claimants applying for order against defendant seeking to identify individuals controlling or operating relevant e-mail addresses — Whether requirements for grant of order met — Whether defendant mixed up in wrongdoing — Defamation Act 1952 (c 66), s 3(1) — Defamation Act 2013 (c 26), s 1

[2023] EWHC 1958 (KB); [2024] 4 WLR 6, KBD

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