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Tell us your thoughtsOur application to strike out Setu Kamal’s £8m defamation claim against the journalist Dan Neidle succeeded on all grounds
The High Court has dismissed the £8m defamation claim brought against journalist Dan Neidle, branding it “spectacularly inflated” and intentionally “oppressive”.
The claim, brought by barrister Setu Kamal, related to an article by tax law expert Dan Neidle which criticised Kamal’s involvement in a dodgy tax avoidance scheme.
If free speech means anything, it is the right to speak hard truths to those with power
