In December, Mr Gormley won a libel case against Sinn Fein over press statements.
But it was the very act of bringing the libel case that allowed the evidence to be aired in court.
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Berezovsky, 67, made headlines in recent years over various business deals and legal disputes, including a libel case against a Russian broadcaster.
In 2005 Sir David accepted a libel case brought by a Saudi-born billionaire against an American, regarding a book never published in Britain.
Emilio Palacio fled to the US a year ago, after being sentenced to jail in a libel case brought by President Rafael Correa.
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In the libel case, Greene denied that Tice had sustained damages and that even if he had, those damages were due to Tice's own conduct.
In the UK, Richard Branson won a libel case against the head of the company running the National Lottery over a bribe he said he was offered.
Documents from a libel case paint an unflattering picture of Florida Democratic Senate hopeful Jeff Greene, with employees of a property management firm he used making declarations describing him as cruel and abusive.
Sally Bercow, wife of Speaker John Bercow, said she has settled a libel case brought by McAlpine after the High Court decided that her 2012 tweet naming the politician to her then-56, 000 followers was defamatory.
He may soon face an embarrassing court appearance in a libel case brought by Sean McPhilemy, a journalist who claims his livelihood was threatened when the Sunday Times rubbished a television documentary he had made.
The libel case had been brought against him in December 2010 by Mr Waterson, who lost his Eastbourne seat to Mr Lloyd, and was cleared of any wrongdoing over his expenses claims for a second home in outer London.
As the subsequent libel case showed.
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In 2003, after six years of grueling litigation, the suit was withdrawn after Forbes published a clarification. (By then, curiously, Berezovsky had somehow managed to fast-track himself into Britain as a political refugee.) Both sides of the libel case agreed to walk away, each absorbing their own legal fees.
This has happened with libel: Dow Jones settled a case on something that had been written and hosted in New York but were prosecuted about under Australian law in Australia, where several people had read it.
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All the usual rules about copyright and libel still exist online (indeed, I know two bloggers who have been sued for libel in the English courts although that was a rather vexatious case rather than they really had libelled someone) and yes, all the usual stuff about incitement to violence, racial insult and so on still applies.
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As noted by resident Forbes lawyer Kai Falkenberg, the case was interesting because it was one of the first libel-by-Twitter cases to play out in the courts.
Judgement has been reserved in a case in which a blogger and a council chief are suing each other for libel.
In another high-profile case, in the early 1980s, he defended CBS against General William Westmoreland's libel suit.
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