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Libel & slander

06 November 2015
Issue: 7675 / Categories: Case law , Law digest , In Court
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Umeyor v Nwakamma [2015] EWHC 2980 (QB), [2015] All ER (D) 195 (Oct)

The Queen’s Bench Division held that in a defamation action by the claimant against the defendant, both union members, the claimant was entitled to be compensated for damage to his reputation as the attribution of forgery, especially in the context of union membership was not something which might be lightly disregarded.

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