Mosley Launches Further Libel Action
FIA president Max Mosley has launched a further libel action against the News of the World after winning his high court privacy case against the tabloid over its allegations he was involved in a ‘Nazi orgy’.
Mosley’s London lawyers, Steeles Law, confirmed that it lodged a writ for libel against publishers News Group Newspapers, part of News International, on 31st March.
Last July he was successful with his high court privacy action and was awarded £60,000 damages and costs estimated at nearly £1m by judge Justice Eady.
Mosley sued the paper for grossly invading his privacy after it printed pictures of him indulging in a five-hour sadomasochistic sex session with prostitutes in a Chelsea apartment.
The paper alleged the session had ‘Nazi overtones’, a connotation that Mosley strenuously denied and that the court could find no evidence of.
Mosley told a culture, media and sport select committee looking into press standards last month that he was contemplating following up his successful privacy ruling with a libel action against the Sunday tabloid.
