Question: When was the plaintiff in Ferdinand v MGN Ltd born?
Context: Theakston v MGN Ltd [2002] EWHC 137(QB) was a High Court judgment in which British television presenter Jamie Theakston attempted to injunct the Sunday People from publishing a story about how he visited a brothel in Mayfair, London. O’Brien v MGN Ltd [2001] EWCA Civ 1279 is an English contract law case, concerning incorporation of terms through reasonable notice. Alternative liability is a legal doctrine that allows a plaintiff to shift the burden of proving causation of her injury to multiple defendants, even though only one of them could have been responsible.  The typical case showing the principle of alternative liability in action is Summers v. Tice, where the two defendants negligently shot in the direction of the plaintiff and only one of the bullets caused the plaintiff's injury.  In the interest of justice, the innocent plaintiff's case is not defeated because she cannot prove which party was the actual cause (but-for cause) of her injury. Baylis v. Travelers' Insurance Company, 113 U.S. 316 (1885) , was a case where after close of testimony in a trial, the defendant moved to dismiss on the ground of the insufficiency of the evidence to sustain a verdict.  This motion was denied and the plaintiff asked that the case be submitted to the jury to determine the facts on the evidence.  The court refused this, and plaintiff excepted.  The court then ordered a verdict for plaintiff, subject to its opinion, whether the facts proved were sufficient to render defendant liable to plaintiff on the cause of action stated.  Plaintiff moved for judgment on the verdict, and defendant moved for judgment on the pleadings and minutes of trial.  Judgment was rendered for defendant upon an opinion of the court as to the effect of the evidence and as to the law on the facts as deduced from it by the court.  Held that the plaintiff was thereby deprived of his constitutional right to a trial by jury, which he had not waived, and to which he was entitled. Ferdinand v Mirror Group Newspapers is a 2011 High Court case in which the English footballer Rio Ferdinand was unsuccessful in preventing the publication of a tabloid newspaper story revealing details of an alleged sexual relationship. Kamloops (City of) v Nielsen, [1984] 2 S.C.R. 2 (""Kamloops"") is a leading Supreme Court of Canada (SCC) decision setting forth the criteria which must be met in order for a plaintiff to make a claim in tort for pure economic loss.  In this regard, the "Kamloops" case is significant because the SCC adopted the “proximity” test set out in the House of Lords decision of "Anns v. Merton London Borough Council", [1978] A.C. 728.  "Kamloops" is also significant as it articulates the “discoverability principle” in which the commencement of a limitation period is delayed until the plaintiff is aware of the material facts on which a cause of action are discovered or ought to have been discovered by the plaintiff in the exercise of reasonable diligence.  This is later adopted and refined in "Central Trust Company v. Rafuse", [1986] 2 S.C.R. 147.  Finally, "Kamloops" develops the law governing circumstances where a plaintiff can sue the government in tort. Rio Gavin Ferdinand (born 7 November 1978) is an English former professional footballer who played as a centre-back, and current television pundit for BT Sport.  He played 81 times for the England national football team between 1997 and 2011, and was a member of three FIFA World Cup squads.  He is regarded by many to be one of England's greatest ever players and he is one of the most decorated English footballers of all time. Ferdinand II (Aragonese: "Ferrando" , Spanish: "Fernando II" , Catalan: "Ferran" ) (10 March 1452 – 23 January 1516), called the Catholic, was King of Sicily from 1468 and King of Aragon from 1479 until his death.  As a consequence of his marriage to Isabella I, he was King of Castile as Ferdinand V from 1474 until her death in 1504.  He was recognised as regent of Castile for his daughter and heir, Joanna, from 1508 until his own death.  In 1504, after a war with France, he became King of Naples as Ferdinand III, reuniting Naples with Sicily permanently and for the first time since 1458.  In 1512, he became King of Navarre by conquest. Misuse of private information is a new common law tort that English courts recognised in "Campbell v MGN Ltd".  Arising as a branch of the law relating to breach of confidence, it has been reinforced by Article 8 of the European Convention on Human Rights, supplemented by s. 6 of the Human Rights Act 1998, which obliges public institutions (including the courts) not to act inconsistently with Convention rights. Erhardt v. Boaro, 113 U.S. 527 (1885) , was an action for the possession of a mining claim in Pioneer mining district, in the County of Dolores, and State of Colorado.  The claim was designated by the plaintiff as "The Hawk Lode" mining claim, and by the defendants as "The Johnny Bull Lode" mining claim.  It contains two counts.  The first alleges that the right of possession of the claim by the plaintiff on June 17, 1880, is by virtue of its location pursuant to the laws of the United States and of the state, and the local rules and customs of miners in the district, and by virtue of priority of possession, the wrongful entry upon the premises by the defendants on the thirtieth of that month, their outing the plaintiff therefrom, and unlawfully withholding the possession from him, to his damage of $50,000.  The second count, in addition to the citizenship of the parties, the possession of the claim by the plaintiff, and the subsequent wrongful entry of the defendants, and their ousting him, alleges that the defendants worked and mined in the claim, and dug out and removed from it large quantities of gold and silver bearing ore of the value of $50,000, to the damage of the plaintiff in that amount.  The plaintiff therefore prays judgment for the possession of the mining premises and for damages of $100,000.
Answer: 7 November 1978