This is probably the most widespread and
damaging allegation made against him, and to some extent it has stuck, partly a result of people abiding suspicion of the Tories when it comes to gay rights issues.
Deputy General Secretary of the New Patriotic Party (NPP), Nana Obiri Boahene, will later today, Wednesday, appear before the party's Steering Committee to answer questions on
some damaging allegations he made against his party in a leaked audio that has gone viral.
Not exact matches
Eleven SSP members, including Mr Fox and MSPs Rosie Kane and Carolyn Leckie, gave evidence
against him in the case, in which Mr Sheridan won # 200,000 in
damages for the defamatory
allegations made by the newspaper about his personal life.
I see there is a recent 304 paragraph decision in B.C. — Newman et al v. Halstead et al, 2006 BCSC 65 — in which the court awarded
damages totalling $ 681,000
against an individual defendant (who did not appear at the trial, hence there was no defence per se) for her liability in
making defamatory statements on her website, chat rooms and email about various teachers in which she
made allegations of misconduct and
allegations that the School Board mishandled or covered up this activity.
The case of Q. (P.) c. L. (A.), Quebec Superior Court, concerns a claim by a father for
damages against his former wife and the mother of his children, based on the fact that she
made unfounded
allegations of improper sexual touching of their two young daughters
against him.
The
damage to children of a system that incentivises the coaching of children by an alienating parent to
make false
allegations against the other parent, is greater than the
damage that would be inflicted by allowing a fair system of tested evidence, or a system that risked occasional child abuse.