Telegraph fights Galloway ruling

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Telegraph fights Galloway ruling

Julia Day
Tuesday October 11, 2005


The Daily Telegraph today appealed against a high court ruling that awarded George Galloway, the former Labour MP, £150,000 damages and costs after the newspaper published documents about him it found in Iraq in 2003.

James Price QC, for the Telegraph, argued that in the high court ruling last year Mr Justice Eady had made an "elementary mistake" regarding the newspaper's right to comment on the documents it discovered in Baghdad.

Mr Price argued that the newspaper was perfectly entitled to publish the documents under privilege because they were in the public interest and to comment on the documents because it made clear to its readers that the comment was the newspaper's opinion.

"We submit that it's no exaggeration to say, that if true, this story was a news story of truly global significance," Mr Price told the Master of the Rolls, Lord Justice Chadwick and Lord Justice Laws.
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