Mclibel - Payola For Mcdonald's ?

Peter Pedant | 08:11 Sat 22nd Jun 2013 | Law

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This am radio 3 carried a piece that one of the authors of the McDonalds Green peace sheet (yeah 1990s) which was the subject of a libel trial, was a metropolitan police under cover agent.

They then had a sound bite from one other author of the libel which reassures everyone that Citizen Smith and Dave Spart are still alive in our capital city. 'Stasi tactics ' came up and was recycled, I recall.

The trial was marked by McDonalds knowing that the four defendants would not be able to pay damages - was it £0.5m ? - and their own costs wh were estimated as £10m.

and now and now, surely McDonalds can claim off an employer - to wit the metropolitan police ?

Payola for McDonalds - you always wanted your [police] precepts to go to a fast food joint, didnt you ?

and the good news of course is that ifor McDonalds it is all tax free.

The question ? This is a clear case of vicarious liablity innit ?

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It would need to be established that what he had done was during the course of his employment and not just a personal capacity. I think that in this case it would be hard to define at what points he was acting in a personal capacity and not as an employee so as to maintain his cover.

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... frolic on his own

I thought this might obviously NOT be a frolic on his own....