Sentences with phrase «year libel case»
This week, St. Lewis won her three - year libel case against Rancourt and was awarded $ 350,000 in damages by an Ottawa civil jury, based on damages to her reputation stemming from Rancourt's use of the pejorative term in a 2011 blog.
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The passing of the royal charter opens the door for a judge to impose a financial penalty on a newspaper even when it wins a libel case — although any such move would have to wait for a year until the state - backed regulator is established.
After 2 years, the judge in that case denied a stay requested by Wakefield and wrote an opinion telling Wakefield's team they had to provide more evidence, suggesting that Wakefield «wishes to use the existence of the libel proceedings for public relations purposes.»
Reynolds Porter Chamberlain (RPC) and media boutique Russells Solicitors are advising on the a dispute between former Smiths frontman Morrissey and music magazine NME which could see one of the first UK libel cases heard before a jury in recent years.