In 2014 various newspaper articles had been printed that made critical allegations towards the ex-husband of a former coverage adviser to Gordon Brown. It turned out that these articles had no foundation actually and so this motion in defamation got here earlier than the courts. When the query went earlier than the Supreme Courtroom the Justices got the chance to supply a full interpretation of part 1 of the Defamation Act 2013. On this episode of the podcast we talk about the background to the 2013 Act in addition to the implications of this judgment.
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