KL and NN v Sunday Newspapers Limited
| Jurisdiction | Northern Ireland |
| Judge | Stephens J |
| Judgment Date | 16 October 2015 |
| Neutral Citation | [2015] NIQB 88 |
| Year | 2015 |
| Court | Queen's Bench Division (Northern Ireland) |
| Date | 16 October 2015 |
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Neutral Citation No. [2015] NIQB 88 Ref: STE9765
Judgment: approved by the Court for handing down Delivered: 16/10/2015
(subject to editorial corrections)*
IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUSTICE IN NORTHERN IRELAND
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QUEEN’S BENCH DIVISION
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KL and NN
Plaintiffs:
and
SUNDAY NEWSPAPERS LIMITED
Defendant:
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STEPHENS J
Introduction
[1] The plaintiffs, a married couple, who for the purposes of this judgment I shall
anonymise by the cyphers “KL” and “NN” (which are not their initials) bring this
action against the defendant, Sunday Newspapers Limited, the publishers of the
Sunday World. The plaintiffs allege that in a series of newspaper articles published
by the defendant in 2011 and 2012 the defendant libelled the first plaintiff by alleging
that he was a conman and breached not only his privacy rights but also the privacy
rights of his wife, the second plaintiff, and their children. The plaintiffs also allege
that the defendant is threatening to publish further articles along the same lines as
the previous articles. I have anonymised this judgment which deals with the
procedure to be followed. If at the hearing of the substantive application or at the
trial I consider that anonymity should not be maintained, then an unanonymised
version of this judgment will be delivered, which was the procedure I adopted in
McAuley v Sunday Newspapers Limited and another [2015] NIQB 74.
[2] This action was commenced by Writ of Summons issued on 12 June 2015,
using the initials of the plaintiffs as opposed to their names, thereby seeking to
maintain their anonymity, but without applying for, or obtaining, any order of the
court permitting them to do so. The identity of the plaintiffs, and accordingly the
requirement on them to use their full names in the Writ, is an integral part of civil
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X v Ministry of Defence and The Chief Constable of The Police Service of Northern Ireland
...issued using a cypher rather than the appellant’s names in accordance with the procedure set out in KL and NN v Sunday Newspapers Limited [2015] NIQB 88. Instead the writ, the ex parte docket, the notice of motion and the affidavit all contain the appellant’s names in the title of each docu......
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