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26 June 2017
Issue: 7750 / Categories: Case law , Law digest , In Court
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Anglia Research Services Ltd and others v Finders Genealogists Ltd and another [2017] EWHC 1277 (QB), [2017] All ER (D) 37 (Jun)

The Queen’s Bench Division granted the applicants orders for pre-action disclosure in respect of potential libel proceedings. It was right to make the orders for disclosure proposed by the respondents and accepted by the applicants because it was common ground that there was jurisdiction to make the order and it was right to do so as a matter of discretion.

 

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