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Re: Galloway actually wanted the oil

May 14, 2005, 20:16

> The oil allegations are old hat that he's successfully rebutted in court.

That's not entirely accurate if you're referring to the Daily Telegraph case rather than the previous Christian Science Monitor one on the same matter. He got £150,000 in damages (the rest of the £1.5M figure in the headlines presumably being Bentleys all round for his legal team) but his action didn't question in court the authenticity of the Telegraph's source documents; unlike the ones in the older case, as far as I know they passed expert examination. The suit rested on the original story being considered insufficiently neutral in the way the contents of the documents were framed in the article. The Telegraph is appealing and due to recent Strasbourg rulings on required standards of journalistic objectivity, and possibly flawed summing up in the original case they're in with a shout. Either way it keeps the tills ringing at the inns of court.

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