MP loses expenses libel appeal versus Evening Standard
The Court of Appeal yesterday threw out former MP Jacqui Lait’s libel appeal against the Evening Standard. It upheld a…
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Sun and Daily Mirror guilty in Jo Yeates contempt case
The High Court ruled today that articles published in The Sun and Daily Mirror following the arrest of a suspect…
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Joanna Yeates’s landlord Chris Jefferies today accepted “substantial” undisclosed libel damages from eight newspapers over allegations made against him over…
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Telegraph in £65k payout over ‘spiteful’ Barber review
Writer Dr Sarah Thornton has won £65,000 damages over a “spiteful” book review by journalist Lynn Barber. Thornton sued for…
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Daily Mirror sued by Baby P social worker
Daily Mirror publishers Mirror Group Newspapers is being sued by Baby P case social worker Sylvia Henry. Henry, who was…
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Contempt trial: AG claims Sun and Mirror broke the law
Articles published in The Sun and the Daily Mirror following the arrest of a suspect in the hunt for landscape…
By Telegraph’s Lynn Barber libel casel will not be heard by jury
A High Court judge was wrong to decide that the trial of the Daily Telegraph’s long-running libel battle with academic…
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‘Belle de Jour’ ex in Sunday Times £100k libel claim
An RAF officer and former boyfriend of sex blogger ‘Belle de Jour’ is suing the Sunday Times for libel. Owen…
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