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Lawyers for Birmingham City Council argued that the case should be struck out because the civil court was not the correct jurisdiction to decide equal-pay claims.
Catrin Evans, the solicitor acting for McNicholas and IPC, told the high court on Tuesday that the case should be struck out because the three-year delay in proceedings showed that Morrissey was "not really interested" in the libel claim.
A case brought by a leading Libyan dissident who accuses MI6, MI5 and the former foreign secretary, Jack Straw, of complicity in the abduction that led to his torture must be struck out because any unlawful act took place in a foreign country and not in the UK, government lawyers told the high court on Monday.
The Ministry of Defence had argued the claims should be struck out because the soldiers were not covered by the legislation once they had left their British base.
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Despite insisting that reforms are necessary to allow future civil claims to proceed, ministers cannot point to a single past case that has been struck out because too much relevant material was protected.
But because the matters had already been considered by Siac, albeit in secret, the civil claims must be struck out.
There were other witnesses and there were photographs of my injuries, but the case was struck out because it was ruled there wasn't enough evidence".
Words evaded her: she couldn't find a wartime equivalent for "cool" so used nothing; she struggled to find what contemporaries called the Home Guard; and every reference to "I have no idea" was struck out because it is a modern expression.
Libel cases have in the past been struck out because they have been considered "not worth the candle" in the words of the court of appeal which laid down precedent in 2005 after considering a judgment in favour of a Saudi businessman Yousef Jameel in a case against the Dow Jones online wire service.
(When I asked him why the word "Lights" was struck out in the title, he said, "Because what I'm showing are projections of light and shadows, and shadows are light that is struck out").
Creative Muslims are striking out.
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