"Solicitors awarded over €400,000 each after court finds press release defamed them"
"Ten days ago, a jury in the High Court began hearing evidence in a libel case taken by two lawyers against the businessman Denis O'Brien and his spokesman James Morrissey."
"At exactly the same time, and less than a mile away, the Seanad was debating proposed changes to Ireland's defamation law."
Two solicitors received awards exceeding €400,000 each after a court concluded that a press release defamed them. A jury in the High Court began hearing evidence in a libel case brought by two lawyers against businessman Denis O’Brien and his spokesman James Morrissey ten days earlier. The High Court proceedings unfolded concurrently and within a short distance of the Seanad, where legislators were debating proposed changes to Ireland’s defamation law. The timing highlighted an overlap between active legal action over alleged defamation and parliamentary consideration of legal reforms on defamation.
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