A British academic was portrayed in the film as ‘smug and patronising’, judge rules
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A British academic was portrayed in the film as ‘smug and patronising’, judge rules
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Steve Coogan and two production companies are set to pay “substantial damages” to a university academic, settling a High Court libel case concerning his portrayal in the film The Lost King.
Case had been due to go to trial after judge ruled 2022’s The Lost King, which Coogan co-wrote, portrayed claimant as ‘smug,…
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The Court of Appeal dismissed the actors bid to overturn the finding that he had libelled two people by calling them ‘paedphiles’
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