Law Report: Libel settlement not full release

From: The Independent (London, England) | Date: January 25, 1994| Author: | Copyright information

An agreement whereby the plaintiff in a libel action, having won substantial damages against two defendants, accepted, subject to certain conditions, a much smaller sum of money from one of the defendants in "full and final settlement of the judgment", did not amount to a release of all the plaintiff's rights against that defendant, but was merely an agreement not to sue him so long as he kept the conditions, and certainly did not release or discharge the other defendant from liability.

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