Breach of undertaking

McCann and another v Bennett: Queen’s Bench Division: [2013] EWHC 283 (QB); LSG 5 March

The claimants were the parents of a child who disappeared at the age of three years old when she was on holiday with her family in Portugal in May 2007. The defendant was a former social worker and solicitor who had written at very great length about that affair. In August 2009, the claimants wrote to the defendant, stating that he had been engaged in a course of conduct that constituted harassment and that he was liable for the publication of numerous grave and actionable libels, from which they asked him to desist.