Category Archives: Damages

Matt Lucas takes the Mail to court

Posted on August 27, 2010 by

In May, the Star paid damages to Matt Lucas of Little Britain fame after the death of his partner for alleging that Lucas had been put on suicide watch and that he had met a new boyfriend and chosen to … Continue reading →

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Another libel payout for the Mail

Posted on July 29, 2010 by

Back in April, the Mail published an apology to a Muslim academic they’d smeared as grooming a terrorist: On 15 January a headline on our report said that Reza Pankhurst, a member of Hizb ut-Tahrir who teaches at the LSE, … Continue reading →

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Sun and Mail lose libel case

Posted on July 29, 2010 by

The Mail and the Sun today lost a libel case and paid a reported total of £80,000 in damages to a Tamil hunger-striker Parameswaran Subramanyam they’d claimed was secretly eating Big Macs. Both newspapers have now published apologies accepting that … Continue reading →

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