“…Grobbelaar v News Group Newspapers Ltd [2002] UKHL 40, [2002] 1 WLR 3024 provides amore recent and authoritative statement of the rationale. The claimant, a football goalkeeper, sued for an allegation that he had “thrown” matches. T…”
“…required counsel for UKLA to concede as much. He relied on a passage from the speech of Lord Hobhouse in Grobbelaar v News Group Newspapers Ltd [2002] UKHL 40, [2002] 1 WLR 3024 at [56].We were shown nothing which would support this challenge to the judge. There are no grounds for considering that, when counsel identified the documents…”