‘The High Court has handed down a preliminary trial judgment in Paisley v Linehan dealing with three statements published as comments written by subscribers on the Defendant’s Substack blog. It held that all three (known as publications 4(1)-(3)) were defamatory of the Claimant at common law: the first two conveyed that the Claimant was a paedophile and the third that the Claimant was party to a co-ordinated effort by child molesters who had adopted LGBT causes.’
Doughty Street Chambers, 13th May 2025
Source: www.doughtystreet.co.uk
