Cases

Sharma v Singh & Associated Newspapers (No. 2)

Facts

C, an Air India executive, brought a libel action (which he ultimately won) against the author and publishers of a front page article in the Evening Standard alleging that he had been a serial sex pest at Heathrow airport. The Ds relied in their plea of justification on the testimony of 6 complainants, 4 of whom they proposed to call as witnesses at the trial. In respect of the remaining 2, the Ds were proposing to adduce under the Civil Evidence Act 1995 letters purportedly signed by each of them in 2004, as their whereabouts were unknown.

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