Cases

Baldwin v Rusbridger

Facts

The Claimant had successfully sued the Guardian for libel. The day after he had won the first case, the Guardian wrote a further article which the Claimant thought suggested that the original allegations had been true but that the newspaper had lost because the libel laws were unfair and prevented the truth from emerging. The Claimant commenced a second action. The Defendant pleaded fair comment and later applied to add a plea of qualified privilege on the basis either (i) Reynolds or (ii) reply to attack based on allegations made against the Defendant's journalists at the trial of the first action.

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