Pounds 30,000 was awarded to an MP for an online article, published on a national newspaper website by a very prominent political correspondent, the Sun’s political editor, that meant that he ‘joined a band which as he knew took great pleasure in using Nazi symbols’. The imputation that he was prepared to associate himself with pleasure in Nazi symbols is substantially more serious for an MP.
Judges:
Dingemans J
Citations:
[2019] EWHC 195 (QB)
Links:
Jurisdiction:
England and Wales
Cited by:
Cited – Turley v Unite The Union and Another QBD 19-Dec-2019
Defamation of Labour MP by Unite and Blogger
The claimant now a former MP had alleged that a posting on a website supported by the first defendant was false and defamatory. The posting suggested that the claimant had acted dishonestly in applying online for a category of membership of the . .
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Defamation, Damages
Updated: 27 September 2022; Ref: scu.633237