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The Johnny Depp libel trial explained – The Conversation AU
The ins and outs of a fiercely contested defamation case.
On November 2 2020, Londons High Court handed down its hotly anticipated judgment in the high-profile libel case brought by Hollywood actor Johnny Depp over a newspaper article which labelled him a wife-beater. In his 585-paragraph ruling the presiding judge, Mr Justice Nicol, dismissed the actors claim, holding in essence that the words used in The Suns report were legally acceptable.
Depp brought a libel action against The Suns publisher (and the newspapers executive editor Dan Wootton) in respect…
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