![High Court claim form filed by Setu Kamal against Tax Policy Associates and Dan Neidle: You may be able to issue your claim online which may save time and money. Go to www.moneyclaims.service.gov.uk/make-claim to find out more. | Claim no.
Issue date
Claimant(s) name(s) and address(es) including postcode
Setu Kamal [redacted] Palm Jumeirah, Dubai, UAE 00000
[Seal: HIGH COURT OF JUSTICE / SEAL / 18 Aug 2023 / QUEEN'S BENCH DIVISION]
KB-2023-003209
NOT FOR SERVICE OUT OF JURISDICTION
Defendant(s) name and address(es) including postcode
Tax Policy Associates, a non-profit company limited by guararntee, no 14053878, 124 City Road, London EC1V2NX (First Defendant)
Dan Neidle, 124 City Road, London, EC1V2NX (Second Defendant)
Brief details of claim
The Claimant brings claims in libel pursuant to section 1 of the Defamation Act 2013 and, in the alternative, malicious falsehood pursuant to the common law and section 3 of the Defamation Act 1952. The claims are against the First Defendant, Tax Policy Associates Limited, and the Second Defendant, Dan Neidle, in respect of online publications falsely alleging that the Claimant has engaged in unethical, unlawful or failed tax avoidance activity, that he poses a risk to the public, and that his legal claim against the Defendants is abusive and intended to suppress scrutiny. The Claimant seeks damages (including aggravated damages), an injunction restraining further publication, and a published apology, for serious reputational harm and/or pecuniary loss caused](https://taxpolicy.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2025/10/Untitled.jpg)
I am being personally sued for more than £8m by a barrister, Setu Kamal. I believe this is one of the largest English libel claims ever made.
Mr Kamal objects to a report we published back in February about a firm called Arka Wealth (which appears to have since gone out of business). In September 2025 he tried (and failed) to obtain an interim injunction against me. Soon afterwards, we received a defamation claim.
We are not removing the report.
I won’t be commenting further for now but, in the interests of transparency, I’m publishing the court documents.
Mr Kamal’s claim is here:
We are applying to have the claim struck out as a SLAPP (and for other reasons), and, in the alternative, applying for summary judgment and security for costs. Our application is here:
This is my accompanying witness statement:
And my lawyer’s witness statement:
I’m publishing these documents in full because I believe in transparency and open justice, and there’s a legitimate public interest in both SLAPP and tax avoidance. The documents are exactly as filed and served, with only limited redactions.1
I do, unfortunately, have to close comments on this post – but if you have any thoughts, please get in touch.
Footnotes
The redactions are mostly (1) for privacy, (2) redacting the content of Mr Kamal’s witness statement for his injunction, as CPR 32.12 prohibits publication of witness statements (with certain exceptions). One of those exceptions is where the witness consents, and that’s the basis on which I’m publishing my own statement and that of my solicitor. ↩︎
![Excerpt of approved judgment by Mrs Justice Collins Rice in Kamal v Tax Policy Associates: THE HON. MRS JUSTICE COLLINS RICE DBE CB
Approved Judgment
Kamal v Tax Policy Associates
31. In the circumstances, the pleading that it was 'false and misleading' to suggest that a judicial finding of breach of duty had been made against him is incapable of forming a part of the just disposal of Mr Kamal’s libel claim. The attempt to do so is an abuse of the court’s processes. I grant the Defendant’s application to strike out [5(b)] of Mr Kamal’s particulars of claim.](https://taxpolicy.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2026/03/padded_judgment-640x360.jpg)
We defeated an £8m libel claim – and it shows libel law and the Tax Bar need reform.
![Heading of a High Court order in Setu Kamal v Tax Policy Associates Limited and Dan Neidle: SETU KAMAL Applicant
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(1) TAX POLICY ASSOCIATES LIMITED
(2) DAN NEIDLE Respondents
[Court stamp: HIGH COURT OF JUSTICE QUEEN'S BENCH DIVISION ★ 26 Aug 2025 ★]
KB-2025-003113
ORDER](https://taxpolicy.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2025/09/20.43.10-640x360.png)
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![Email from Peter Mandelson to jeevacation@gmail.com dated 7 November 2010: To: jeevacation@gmail.com[jeevacation@gmail.com]
From: Peter Mandelson
Sent: Sun 11/7/2010 2:34:57 PM
Subject: Fwd: Rio apartment
Sent to my bank manager. Grateful for helpful thoughts from my chief life adviser....
Sent from my iPad
Begin forwarded message:
From: Peter Mandelson [redacted]>
Date: 7 November 2010 14:29:12 GMT
To: '[redacted]
Cc: [redacted]>
Subject: Rio apartment
[redacted], as we discussed, I am considering a purchase of an apartment in Rio. It is in](https://taxpolicy.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2026/01/Screenshot-2026-01-31-at-21.27.15-640x360.png)