“Last month, Mr Justice Warby handed down judgment in Monroe v Hopkins [2017] EWHC 433 (QB), the first libel case to consider the “serious harm” test under section 1 of the Defamation Act 2013 within the context of a social media post. Food blogger and left-wing political activist Jack Monroe was successful in suing self-confessed “rent-a-gob” journalist and former Apprentice contestant Katie Hopkins over two 140-character tweets posted in May 2015 …” (more)
[Oliver Lock, Inforrm’s Blog, 5 April]
First posted 2017-04-05 11:53:02
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