Aoife Moore and Allison Morris win defamation disclosure orders

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Journalists Aoife Moore and Allison Morris secured High Court disclosure orders in their defamation action on 5 December 2022, reported on that date.

The orders require Twitter to provide account details for Barbara J Pym and, for Morris, Northern Whig; the judge declined orders concerning Dolly White and retweets.

The judge said the orders would help identify alleged wrongdoers, while expressing no view on whether the tweets were defamatory. The claims remain allegations, which Eoghan Harris denies.

The court adjourned the applications against Harris pending the Twitter disclosure process, allowing the parties to return afterward. It required the journalists to limit use of the information to seeking redress and to pay Twitter’s costs.