Defamation

The story of an Irish lawyer who successfully sued the BBC over his portrayal in a 1950s radio adaptation of James Joyce's Ulysses will be the subject of a lecture in Dublin next week. Dublin solicitor Reuben James Dodd Junior launched a lawsuit against the BBC after a June 1954 broadcast of an adap

A legal assistant who sued Irish Rail for defamation after being challenged on her use of an invalid train ticket has lost her case, the Irish Examiner reports. Nicola Dowd, based in Dublin, alleged that ticket inspectors had defamed, embarrassed, intimidated and shamed her in front of other passeng

Shadow Justice Secretary Richard Burgon has won £30,000 in damages from a tabloid newspaper that claimed he had performed with a band which "delights in Nazi symbols". Mr Burgon, MP for Leeds East, launched the unusual libel proceedings against The Sun in connection with a story published in m

Former Justice Minister Patrick Cooney has reached a settlement in his defamation action against The Irish Times. The case was struck out by Mr Justice Bernard Barton in the High Court today after the parties agreed that Mr Cooney would receive an apology, "substantial" damages and his legal costs.