Businessman loses defamation case against Sunday Business Post
jury, by a majority verdict of at least nine to two, dismissed his case on Friday afternoon after considering their decision on the 17-day case for more than seven hours.
Responding to the verdict, Taoiseach Leo Varadkar said a review is being carried out on Ireland’s defamation laws, but he accepted that the rules in“But we always have to balance the need for free speech and the need for a free press but also the need to protect people’s privacy and people’s reputations,” he said in Belfast on Friday evening.
The billionaire businessman, who gave several days of evidence, attended each day of the case but was not in court on its final day. The eight male and three female jurors delivered their verdict just after 4pm.dismissed Mr O’Brien’s claim and awarded costs against him. The combined costs could be between €750,000 and €1 million.
That judgment was to have been delivered last Wednesday but, at the request of Mr O’Brien’s lawyers last Monday, the Supreme Court agreed to defer it because of the defamation case.Ltd over articles published over six pages on March 15th, 2015 where he was named as among the 22 biggest borrowers from Irish banks in 2008.report given to the government in November 2008 which looked at the exposure of Ireland’s banks in 2008.
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