Source: All England Reporter
Publisher Citation: [2012] All ER (D) 121 (Feb)
Neutral Citation: [2012] EWHC 290 (QB)
Court: Queen's Bench Division
Judge: Eady J
Representation The claimant appeared in person.
  Clare Kissin (instructed by Kennedys) for the defendant.
Judgment Dates: 20 February 2012

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Practice - Striking out - Abuse of process - Claimant student being denied right to suspend university course on basis of false information - Claimant bringing claim in defamation - Defendant university applying to strike out claim - Whether claim should be struck out.

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Practice Striking out. The Queen's Bench Division held that the claimant's case in defamation would be struck out on the basis, inter alia, that no reasonable person would nowadays think any the worse of someone who had suffered from either 'mental health difficulties' or from 'chronic fatigue syndrome and anxiety'.

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