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Telegraph Media Group Ordered To Pay Damages Over Lynn Barber Book Review

Posted at 10:51PM Tuesday 26 Jul 2011

Telegraph Media Group, the publisher of the Daily Telegraph, has been ordered to pay £65,000 in damages after losing a high court case for libel and malicious falsehood over a Lynn Barber book review.

Ruling in the high court in London on Tuesday, Mr Justice Tugendhat said a 2008 review of Dr Sarah Thornton's book, Seven Days in the Art World, by the Telegraph columnist was "spiteful" and contained serious factual errors.

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