Cases

Aitken v Preston and Others

Comment

The Court of Appeal followed the important principle that under the amended s.69 SCA 1981 the emphasis is now against trial by jury (see Goldsmith v Pressdram [1988] 1 WLR 64). The case illustrates that defendants who 'sail under the flag of truth', as Millett LJ put it in the course of argument, are likely, in complex defamation cases, to find themselves doing so without a jury.

Areas of work

Defamation
Media Law

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