Cases

Godfrey v Demon Internet Ltd

Held

The amendments should be permitted. The other postings were relevant and admissible in support of D's case that the action was not brought bona fide, but as part of a cynical practice by P of provoking people into overstepping the mark so that he could then bring vexatious libel actions against them. They were 'introduced to establish that the Plaintiff should only receive derisory or small damages because of his bad conduct which is causally connected to the libel sued upon. In my judgment the Plaintiff's postings are germane to the defamatory posting the subject of his claim.'

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