Kate Selway acted for the successful respondent when Morgan J recently dismissed two applications for permission to appeal the decisions of Mr Recorder Lawrence Cohen KC following a two week trial earlier this year concerning consolidated claims of fraudulent calumny and undue influence.

Morgan J’s judgments are a useful reminder of the rules for establishing fraudulent calumny and the circumstances in which the court will and won’t grant permission to appeal when the issues at stake have become academic except in relation to costs.