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Mosley to launch more legal actions |
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Friday, 25 July 2008 |
Jul.25 (GMM) Buoyed by his High Court victory this week, Max Mosley
could now be considering more legal action against the British scandal
newspaper News of the World.
The Times, which like News of the World is owned by Rupert Murdoch's
publishing company News International, reported on Friday that Mosley,
the FIA president, is considering a libel action.
While Mosley's High Court victory was based on invasion of privacy,
subsequent legal action is likely to focus on the evidently false claim
that his encounter with five prostitutes earlier this year was a "sick
Nazi orgy".
Mosley's lawyers, Steeles Law, refused to comment, the British newspaper The Guardian said.
But a source at the firm said "there would be a time to talk about other things but that time is not now".
It is believed Mosley may also be considering legal action against
newspapers that also carried the expose, and claims based on its
falsehoods, in France, Germany and Italy.
Mosley on Thursday was awarded $120,000 damages by the London court,
but the bill for the News of the World will actually be in excess of
half a million, once the 68-year-old Briton's legal costs are factored
in.
A successful libel action, meanwhile, could cost Murdoch's company hundreds of thousands of dollars.
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