Ness v Miller [2026] EWHC 113 (KB)

After previously striking out the claimant’s libel claim against the first defendant, the High Court struck out a false imprisonment claim against the first defendant as there were no reasonable grounds for bringing it. Mrs Justice Williams also struck out a data protection claim as there were no reasonable grounds for bringing that claim and its pursuit would be an abuse of process. The court also refused the claimant’s applications to amend his claim to add a claim in false imprisonment against further defendants and for them to be added to the proceedings for that purpose, to add a new claim of conspiracy against the defendant and proposed defendants, and to add a data protection claim against one of the proposed defendants

Simon Butler and Anirudh Mandagere acted on behalf of the Second and Third Defendants. They were instructed by Advocate.