Cases

Flood v Times Newspapers Ltd

Facts

The Claimant was a Detective Sergeant in the Metropolitan Police Service. Journalists working for the Defendant were informed by an anonymous source that Russian oligarchs had paid a police officer for information about extradition requests. The unnamed source further stated that the police officer, whose codename was "Noah", "could be" the Claimant (whose surname was Flood) and that he had reported this to the MPS. In April 2006 the journalists concluded that the MPS might not be properly conducting an investigation into the Claimant. They thus approached the Claimant and other persons concerned with the allegations. This caused an investigation to commence.

In June 2006 The Times published an article headed "Detective accused of taking bribes from Russian exiles". It was published in its print edition and on its website, where it continued to be published after the date of the print publication. The Claimant sued for libel over both print and website publications.

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