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June 16, 2010

Lynn Barber libel victory ‘raises bar’ for claimants

By Dominic Ponsford

Lawyers for the Daily Telegraph said today that a legal victory for the paper over a Lynn Barber review has raised the bar for claimants who sue for libel.

Justice Tugendhat today dismissed a libel claim made by Dr Sarah Thornton against the Telegraph over a review written by Barber in November, 2008 of her book Seven Days in the Art World.

Thornton sued over a section in which Lynn Barber said she had given her interviewees “copy approval”, meaning that they had the right to read what she had written about them for the book and alter it.

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