Cases

Collins Stewart Limited & Another v The Financial Times Ltd (No 2)

Facts

The FT published an article on 27 August 2003, entitled "Reputations on the line at Collins Stewart", concerning High Court proceedings for wrongful dismissal brought against Collins Stewart Ltd by an ex-employee. The article reported allegations of improper and/or criminal conduct made against the company in a report which had been prepared by the ex-employee and submitted to the FSA. Collins Stewart Ltd and its parent company, Collins Stewart Tullett Plc, brought an action for libel against the FT over the original article. They also included 3 further articles, which had appeared subsequently in the newspaper and also reported the dispute between the company and its ex-employee, in their Particulars of Claim in the libel action. These follow-up articles were pleaded not as separate libels for which separate claims for damage were sought, but as increasing the damages to which the Claimants claimed to be entitled in respect of the original article.

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