Lessons from Robertson's victory; The (pounds) 25,000 settlement of a case against the Sunday Herald by a Labour peer will inform future internet debate.

From: The Sunday Herald | Date: September 12, 2004| Author: Steven Vass | Copyright information

WHEN Lord George Robertson accepted a (pounds) 25,000 settlement over his 18-month defamation battle with the Sunday Herald last week, it attracted predictably gleeful full-page reports in the Scottish Daily Mail and The Scotsman. The Scottish Daily Mail was particularly vitriolic. Its headline ran: "Former Nato chief wins damages over paper's Dunblane massacre lies".

Nothing new there, you might think. One paper settles a defamation case out of court in the most competitive newspaper...

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