United Kingdom: Member of Parliament loses libel action against Sunday times
Tobias Raab
With decision of 25 November 2015, the High Court of England dismissed an action by Tim Yeo, former Member of Parliament and Chairman of the Energy and Climate Change Select Committee, against Times Newspapers (Case HQ14D01146).
Yeo based his claim on several articles which had been published by the Sunday Times in the summer of 2013. The publication of the articles followed an undercover investigation by the Times' 'Insight' team. Two journalists of the Sunday Times had met with Yeo, pretending to be members of a fictitious consultancy firm who wanted to employ him on behalf of a leading…