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A businesswoman has been ordered to pay a TV anti-bullying campaigner £60,000 after losing a libel battle for calling her 'a bully and a fraud' on Facebook.
A judgment is also expected in Harry's libel claim against ANL – publisher of the Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday – over an article on his case against the Home Office.
Source: https://www.irishexaminer.com/world/arid-41145367.html
A jury was selected to hear a libel lawsuit Johnny Depp filed against his ex-wife, actress Amber Heard, whom he accused of falsely portraying him as a domestic abuser.
Source: https://wtop.com/back-in-the-day/2023/04/today-in-history-april-11-civil-rights-act-becomes-law-2/
But while the truth is always an acceptable defense in a libel case, that's not always enough to make for a successful story.
Fox’s founder, Rupert Murdoch, has a complex relationship with Trump: “I was not close to him,” Murdoch said in a deposition in the libel lawsuit.
He lost a in 2021 for slurs against a Syrian schoolboy who was filmed being attacked at school, and the attorney general’s office is considering taking legal action for contempt of court after a documentary repeating the libel was circulated.
Hillary almost got away with her libel of Trump as a Russian spy through a similar, though far more sophisticated, method of media and deep state manipulation.
Hontiveros then vowed to continue to push for the passage of her bill, which seeks to decriminalize libel in the Philippines.
In 2023, we saw WAG Coleen Rooney tell the story of the libel case dubbed 'Wagatha Christie' in Disney+ documentary Coleen Rooney: The Real Wagatha Story.
I revealed it and he sued me for libel.
It ruled that news outlets are protected against a libel judgment unless it can be proven that they published with “actual malice” – knowing that something was false or acting with a “reckless disregard” to whether it was true or not.
"It will also be a painful spectacle for Rebekah, who's still smarting from losing the Wagatha libel case last year.
Source: https://www.mirror.co.uk/3am/celebrity-news/coleen-rooney-bagging-vogue-cover-30284429
Jason Zadrozny, the Leader of the Ashfield Independents, said at the time that the party had instructed lawyers Bindmans LLP to pursue libel action against Mr Harding.
Source: https://www.nottinghampost.com/news/local-news/ashfield-independents-drop-libel-claim-8705208
ON top of the expression of hatred criminal charge which Lumezi Member of Parliament Munir Zulu is facing, the lawmaker has now been slapped with three libel charges for accusing two ministers of having received a US$250,000 bribe.
Prince Harry will seek to win his libel claim against publisher Associated Newspapers without the case going to trial, his lawyer says, as the British royal steps up his legal battles against the tabloid press.
Source: https://thenewdaily.com.au/entertainment/celebrity/royal/2023/03/17/prince-harry-trial-mail-sunday/
Rebekah took Coleen Rooney, the wife of former United captain Wayne, to court for libel and lost in a case dubbed 'Wagatha Christie'
She sued for libel and malicious falsehood and, after Mrs Hammond failed to defend herself, Mrs Johnson won a judgment in her favour in November last year.
That tale has four variations, a la the Gospels, and the first, called “Curb Your Judaism” (you can imagine what that’s like; it nails it, thanks in large part to J.B. Smoove) immediately put me at ease vis a vis the tired, double-crossing Jew libel.
Source: https://forward.com/culture/537651/history-of-the-world-part-ii-hulu-mel-brooks-review/
The libel duly followed, with the claim that Assange “risked very serious harm to our national security, to the benefit of our adversaries, and put named sources at grave risk – grave risk – of physical harm, and grave risk of detention”.
We will fight to defend the integrity of our state by protecting our Governor from a social media rogue who misuse his page for criminal libel and blackmail.