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Could the recent surge of discussion on the RDG have anything to do with the end of term, I wonder? Members of the group who recall the Archer libel damages discussion last year might like to read Grobbelaar v News Group Newspapers Ltd [2001] EWCA Civ 33, in which the English Court of Appeal overturned a jury's 'perverse' verdict that the appellant, a well-known footballer, had been defamed, when the Sun newspaper ran a series of articles in which he was accused of taking bribes to throw football matches. If you don't find Seinfeld funny, then you might try reading the transcripts of the Sun's secret tape recordings of Grobbelaar's conversation: they make President Nixon's performance on the Watergate tapes seem mild and well-spoken. It is not clear to me from the judgments, however - and perhaps a group member can tell us? - whether the Sun actually paid Grobbelaar the damages awarded and now can get them back.

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Dr Charles Mitchell
Lecturer in Law
School of Law
King's College London
Strand
LONDON WC2R 2LS

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