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I read an interesting article posted by the guardian it is about. Civil dispute

here we have a civil case between two parties

Arron Banks- plaintiff

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£250 million

Arron Banks, who funded Leave.

Carole Cadwallad-  journalist ( defendant)

Cadwalladr has won a series of prestigious journalism prizes for her work published in the Guardian and Observer exposing the Cambridge Analytica data-harvesting scandal 

A little bit Politics here.

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She is being sued by the insurance businessman Arron Banks, who funded the pro-Brexit Leave.EU campaign group. Banks has brought a defamation action against Cadwalladr personally.

The ruling on Thursday by Mr Justice Saini concerns the meaning of statements by Cadwalladr in two public talks and the meaning of words in two of her tweets, which Banks argues were defamatory.

During a talk in June, Cadwalladr stated: “We know that the Russian government offered money to Arron Banks.”

Banks’s lawyers argued this meant there were strong grounds to believe he would assist the interests of the Russian government, against those of the British government, in exchange for that money.

Cadwalladr’s lawyers had argued this meant there were reasonable grounds to investigate.

However, the judge concluded that in the context of the entire speech it in fact meant there were “substantial grounds to investigate” whether Banks would be willing to accept such funds, in violation of prohibitions on foreign electoral funding.

Saini reached a similar conclusion in relation to a tweet

Filally, A judge has issued a preliminary ruling in a libel action against the investigative journalist Carole Cadwalladr and warned that broadcasts and public speeches should not be interpreted as though they were formal written texts.