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Advisors kept as Mosley moves from privacy to libel

Max's damage In response to "anonymous", the answer is actually quite clear from the judgement itself : NOTW made a particular point of alleging not simply that Max was engaging in S&M (would anyone, particularly a reader of NOTW, really be shocked by that these days?), but that it had a Nazi theme, which was important for two reaons: 1) it enabled NOTW to make Max out as unrepetant Nazi-loving spawn of his fascist father; and 2) (as Eady J wisely pointed out) it would have constituted an egregious insult to Holocaust victims coming from a very public figure. As the court found that (1) consensual S&M sex is no-one's business but the participant, and (2) there was no Nazi element, it makes a very big difference indeed.

28-Jul-2008

6:08 pm