Berezovsky v Michaels

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Berezovsky v Michaels
Court	House of Lords
Full case name	Berezovsky v Michaels and Others, Glouchkov v Michaels and Others
Decided	11 May 2000
Citations	[2000] UKHL 25; [2000] 2 All ER 986; [2000] 1 WLR 1004
Case history
Prior action	Berezovsky v Forbes Inc (No. 1) [1999] E.M.L.R. 278
Subsequent action	Berezovsky v Forbes Inc (No. 2) [2001] E.M.L.R. 45
Court membership
Judges sitting	Lord Steyn Lord Nolan Lord Hoffmann Lord Hope of Craighead Lord Hobhouse of Woodborough
Keywords
Libel, defamation, choice of forum

Berezovsky v Michaels^[1] is an English libel decision in which the House of Lords allowed Boris Berezovsky and Nikolai Glushkov to sue Forbes (via editor James Michaels) for libel in UK courts, despite the allegedly libelous material relating to their activities in Russia.

The case was also reported as Berezovsky v Forbes Inc.