Carmarthenshire Planning Problems and more: Libel Appeal

Thursday 1 May 2014

Libel Appeal - Judgement reserved

As judgement has been reserved following yesterday's appeal hearing I cannot comment or speculate on any outcome.

The hearing, which related to Mark James' counterclaim for libel against me, took up the full two hours allowed and the substance of the arguments concerned a reference I had made to the clause in the council's constitution to fund it's officers to bring claims for libel. The issue was one of meaning.
There were three appeal judges and they will make their decision in due course.

I attended the hearing at the Court of Appeal in London and my very grateful thanks go again to my legal team and everyone who has continued to support me.

1 comment:

Anonymous said...: Best wishes. I am praying that justice will prevail!; 4 May 2014 at 00:29

* * LIBEL CASE * *

'The Claimant is a housewife, mother and amateur blogger. The defendants are a council and a chief executive. It is literally state versus citizen. In a large part, the origins of the entire case derive from the issue of getting ones voice heard at all'

'In light of the evidence, the allegations of perverting the course of justice are unsustainable. This is the most serious allegation and the Claimant deserves to have her reputation vindicated...Mr Davies' evidence was incoherent, confused and contradicted [his] statements given at the time...in short, Mr Davies' evidence of what happened has completely changed and he cannot be relied on'

(From closing submission for the claimant at trial, February 2013)

...In August 2016, following a very belated (three years later) complaint to the police by Mark James that I perverted the course of justice, the investigation was dropped as there was no evidence.

There never was going to be any evidence as I told the truth, on oath, at the time.