CSA Libel Via Twitter Charge Upheld Against Sally Bercow

Catching up with all the news recently in a fortnight dominated by the murder of a British soldier in London and the tornado in Oklahoma, and the bank holiday in both countries, one of the biggest stories followed on from a legal court case where Lord McAlpine took Sally Bercow to court. A court ruled that her tweet was libellous and she faces a claim for higher damages following a refusal to settle.
This links in nicely with Mike’s latest post about using social media to campaign against child abuse and naming people with zero proof, Sally Bercow (as an understatement) uses Twitter quite a lot. We’re not blind to the fact that the decision also represents tall poppy syndrome in the media who are only too happy to take the fringe benefit of criticising Bercow, with the assumption that she should not have a separate identity to that of her husband, the speaker of the House of Commons in the UK Parliament.
The Stories about this from the long weekend are here and here at the Daily Mail.