#libel-case

#libel-case

Mrs Justice Steyn's judgment is about power and complicity as well as the failure to protect vulnerable people. In her verdict, she agreed with the Guardian that there were strong grounds to believe that [Clarke] is a serial abuser of women. The court heard testimony from 26 witnesses before concluding that Clarke had engaged in harassment, bullying and abuse of power over many years. The judge accepted some of his evidence, but found him to be neither credible or reliable.

The Paris appeals court overturned earlier convictions against the two women for spreading the rumor that Brigitte Macron is a trans woman, which went viral online.

In written submissions, David Sherborne, for Mrs Rooney, stated: "In short, the claimant is someone who has secretly provided, or sought to provide, to the press private information which she has been privy to..."