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A question of success

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If I had a commercial dispute and was claiming £20k in damages, it would be a one-day hearing with capped costs. Given that most defamation claims are for less than that, why is defamation treated differently? The extra £200k of costs spent probably do not affect the result at all...

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20-Jan-2010

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4:54 pm

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