Cases

Galloway v Telegraph Group Ltd (QBD)

Facts

The Daily Telegraph published articles in April 2003 setting out documents which had been found by one of its journalists in the Iraqi Foreign Ministry after the fall of Baghdad. The documents had suggested that the Iraqi regime had been making payments to the Claimant. The documents were published in full together with articles and comments by the Defendant. The Claimant complained that the articles suggested that he had been taking large sums of money personally from Saddam Hussein’s regime and that the allegations made in the newspaper went beyond what was alleged in the documents. He alleged that the Daily Telegraph had adopted the allegations made in the documents. The Defendants did not suggest that the allegations in the documents were true and relied upon a Reynolds qualified privilege defence. Further, the Defendant defended the leading articles and headlines as fair comment on twin grounds (i) fair comment on the privileged report; and (ii) fair comment on the documents.

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