[arista]

[Brexit-supporting businessman Arron Banks
has won a partial victory in his ongoing
libel case with journalist Carole Cadwalladr,
over comments she made in a TED Talk.
Mr Banks, a major funder to the Leave campaign
in the run-up to the Brexit referendum in 2016,
sued Ms Cadwalladr, arguing the statements
she made in 2019 were libellous,
and "false and defamatory".

He is seeking damages and an
injunction to prevent the
continued publication of her comments,
which suggested Mr Banks
had secretly broken the law on electoral funding
by taking money from a foreign power and
lied about the matter, and can still be viewed online.

In 2020, The Electoral Commission revealed
a National Crime Agency (NCA) investigation
found no evidence to support the allegations
against him and his companies.

Ms Cadwalladr, an investigative journalist,
defended her comments at trial,
arguing they were in the public interest.]




[In the latest ruling, three judges said
Mr Banks' appeal should be allowed in
relation to the TED talk's publication,
but upheld the other conclusions made by the judge.

It means Mr Banks could win damages from
Ms Cadwalladr, but only linked to the publication
of the TED talk between April 2020 and the rulings
in June last year.]


["The judge's finding that harm
to the claimant's reputation
in the eyes of these publishees was
of 'no consequence' to him was also unsustainable.

"If she meant that the claimant did not
care what these publishees thought,
that was legally irrelevant to the issue of
whether serious reputational harm
was established.

"There was no evidence to support
a conclusion that others' adverse opinions
of the claimant were of 'no consequence'
to him in the sense that they could
have no practical impact upon his life."

The TED Talk in question was viewed
around 1 million times in
England and Wales initially,
but only another 100,000 watched after
the Electoral Commission statement
on 29 April 2020.

Damages owed, and his application
for an injunction to prevent any further
publication, are both yet to be determined.]

https://news.sky.com/story/arron-ban...lladr-12822278

[Alf]

Take her to the cleaners.

[Mystic Mock]

I don't understand how some people think that they're gonna get away with saying libel **** about someone else? The person is never gonna let you just destroy their reputation without any evidence.