Daily Mirror fails to justify full defamatory sting of Simpson and Contostavlos article

The Daily Mirror found in Daniel Peter Simpson v MGN Limited that cases decided before the Defamation Act 2013 do not need to justify every word's truth but the 'defamatory stings' in the statement.

18 February 2015
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