Plebgate Make Or Break?

[Jomlett]

Plebgate libel trial to start next week...

http://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2014/nov/14/andrew-mitchell-plegate-trial-due-to-begin

[mikey4444]

As so many Policemen have already been found guilty in this affair, I am not really sure what Rowland is trying to achieve here. When you are in a hole, its normally best to stop digging I would have thought.

[Peter Pedant]

Hazoos ! The libel lawyers must be rubbing their hands -
they win whatever happens

The feds are being 'maintained' ( = fees paid ) by the police fed ( does that mean we pay in the end ?) and I wonder who is bankrolling Andrew Mitchell.

The longest libel trial is Drummond Jackson v BMJ which was over a paper he wrote (!) yes really, doctors at each others' throats until the money ran out. 14 weeks in 1972 I recall

[wolf63]

PP - you were nearly right.

http://tinyurl.com/qd883am

[THECORBYLOON]

PETER PEDANT, the 'McLibel' court case, including the appeals, is the longest.