I would have thought that defaming a senior judge is not one of the more sensible activities for a newspaper editor to engage in but The Telegraph has apologised to Lord Justice Sedley….
The Daily Telegraph is to issue a formal apology to Lord Justice Sedley over a series of “professionally damaging” allegations which appeared in the paper last year.
The Daily Telegraph is to issue a formal apology to Lord Justice Sedley over a series of “professionally damaging” allegations which appeared in the paper last year.
It is extremely rare for a judge to launch libel proceedings, but this is the second time Sedley LJ has secured a newspaper apology. In 1996 The Independent was forced to public apologise to the then-High Court judge after it accused him of being politically partisan.
@Afuahirch of The Guardian has the link to the apology:
“popular Court of Appeal judge Stephen Sedley accepts apology from Telegraph 4 defamatory story http://bit.ly/dEjLi0″
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