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Day: 30 June 2013

News: Daily Mail agrees to pay £110,000 damages to risk management consultancy

daily_news_logoOn 26 June 2013 a Statement in Open Court [pdf] was made in another action against the Daily Mail.  Following last week’s Sally Morgan apology, the paper has apologised for an article on its website which falsely linked Britam Defence a risk management and training consultancy, and two of its senior Directors (David Goulding and Philip Doughty) with an alleged plot to carry out a chemical weapons atrocity in Syria. The Daily Mail agreed to pay £110,000 damages, plus legal costs. Continue reading

Lord Justice Leveson’s Statement on the Publication of his Report: worth re-reading

On 29 November 2012, when his report was published, Lord Justice Leveson made a short statement summarising his views and the purpose of his report.  We published this at the time and we republish it now because of its continuing relevance to the debates which have taken place over the 7 months since the Leveson Report was published.  We have emphasised some passages which may have been overlooked in the course of some of the distorted and partisan attacks on Judge and his report since publication.  The statement is worth re-reading. Continue reading

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