James Mendelsohn
A university lecturer, James Wilson, has been awarded a total of £30,000 in damages. The sum of £7,500 was awarded against both James Mendelsohn, a law lecturer and Edward Cantor, a former restauranteur in a claim of defamation and the sum of £22,500 was awarded against just James Mendelsohn in respect of misuse of private information.
The judgement was made in the High Court of Justice, King’s Bench Division on 10 April. The judge, His Honour Richard Parkes KC, said that a tweet by Mendelsohn had ‘plainly inflamed feeling against [Wilson] and led to him receiving disgraceful abuse’.
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