Arlene Foster suing Dr Christian

[MissyB1]

Apparently he tweeted that she was having an affair (without any proof), and the way he put it was a spiteful little jibe about her being a “sanctity of marriage preaching woman” adding “it always comes back to bite them on the arse”
Now I understand he might have an issue with her as I think she was against same sex marriage. But this man always strikes me as an arrogant twat and a nasty piece of work.

I tried to post the link but I’m such a technophobe! it’s on BBC news website

@teawamutu

"This brings me to the two items of Royal Mail post, dated 11 March 2021 and 9 April 2021. Having discounted the two far-fetched and unlikely eventualities referred to in paragraph [84] above, I am left with the unedifying task of trying to determine which lie has Dr Jessen told."

This was quite a good bit.

I agree that was the "cherry" but goodness me the whole judgement is a masterclass in how to comprehensively call out a liar, leaving absolutely no room for ambiguity.

@ArabellaScott

I especially liked the weird subplot about his parents' dog and the Ronald McDonald graffiti that mysteriously appeared in a smelly alleyway.

Yes that was an epic defence "I don't go into that alleyway because it smells"

Ian Paisley jnr has donated

I doubt that Mr Justice McAllinden just wrote "lol" at the bottom of his summing up and judgement.

Would’ve been a nice flourish though

I'm sure GLAAD will be signing him up any moment now.

I missed this gem from her solicitor earlier. Lol indeed!

“I would just say one thing personally. On Christmas Day 2019, in response to the warning I had given to Dr Jessen, he tweeted ‘Laugh Out Loud’. “I don’t think he will be laughing too much today.”

Silly aul' judge spending all that time dealing with the "facts" of Jessen's assigned residence. Doesn't he realise that Jessen identifies as being resident in Fulham? There's no such thing as an objective residence, it's all a social construct.

TransFulhamites are Fulhamites!! Bigots!

He used to be really nice...then something happened about him being in the papers with drugs or something and it went downhill from there...atleast that's what I remember...still don't get what he did to this woman? Tweeted she might be having an affair? I'm sure loads of people say worse?

Wow, that is interesting reading, you can only imagine what advice his legal representatives must have given him, he’s so arrogant if he thought he’d get away with it, if he was staying with his parents surely he’d be able to provide one text to say he was at his parents, one Amazon order confirmation to their address or one neighbour to say they’d seen him there... the mind boggles!

Paragraph 64 is gold. I think this is my favourite bit:

"Following the hearing on 23 April 2021, I listened to the two podcasts which Dr Jessen produced in May 2020 along with the journalist Alex Stanger in order to ascertain whether there was anything that would give a clue as to Dr Jessen’s state of health at that time. In the podcast entitled “Light At The End of the Lockdown Tunnel” broadcast on 6 May 2020, Dr Jessen complained of having hay fever."

Or this bit, can't decide:

"His co-host Alex Stanger then made a comment about Dr Jessen being in the centre of the town whereas she was out in the sticks. This is at a time when Dr Jessen is supposed to be living with his parents in Fulham. Dr Jessen then started a discussion about misinformation being put out on the internet."

Such a huge extra dollop of Freude with this particular burst of Schadenfreude.

I’m very pleased Arlene won.
And I’m equally aghast at the crowdfunding appeal. Shameless.

I can't help but feel joy at the coming together here for a woman smeared, irrespective of her politics and religion.

This man's self belief in his utter freedom to humiliate a woman is struck down.

Where will this go? How do we keep this alive?

@faithfulbird20

He used to be really nice...then something happened about him being in the papers with drugs or something and it went downhill from there...atleast that's what I remember...still don't get what he did to this woman? Tweeted she might be having an affair? I'm sure loads of people say worse?

He's never liked women.

He tweeted this in 2016:

'Is the man in Niger who marries 12 year old child bride as per cultural traditional a paedophile in the same sense?'

I'd not agree that he was ever 'really nice'

I'm having trouble visualising Arlene having a passionate extramarital affair.

Dr Jenssen is gay, perhaps he is having trouble coming to terms with that I don't know.

?

He's been openly gay for years and years.

What a strange comment.

'Is the man in Niger who marries 12 year old child bride as per cultural traditional a paedophile in the same sense?'

Yes - ironic that the man who thinks that a barely pubescent child is capable of coping with marriage and childbirth and all of the attendant physical dangers and responsibility, runs home to mummy and daddy when things get rough for him.

When I first read that he said he'd gone to his parents and so didn't see any post delivered to his flat, I envisaged him a long drive from London. Now I learn he lives in Westminster and his parents are in Fulham. You could walk from one to the other in an hour, surely. I expect the judge looked at the map too.

I live in London, and I love it, but I'm fully aware that many people who've not lived anywhere else have a dreadfully irritating tendency to write off the rest of the UK as parochial and beneath their notice. I wonder if that was a factor here.

@youvegottenminuteslynn

I missed this gem from her solicitor earlier. Lol indeed!

“I would just say one thing personally. On Christmas Day 2019, in response to the warning I had given to Dr Jessen, he tweeted ‘Laugh Out Loud’. “I don’t think he will be laughing too much today.”

Didn't realise until the other day that Arlene's solicitor was the one who had nailed euro500,000 in damages from the Sun for Louis Walsh, for the false groping allegation.

I was scrolling through his Twitter and he's set up a go fund me to pay for all his legal costs, and the damages he's been asked to pay. What a bloody idiot.

@UhtredRagnarson

NI libel laws are UK libel laws

There are no UK libel laws or, alternatively there are 3 sets of UK laws. There are the laws of England & Wales, the law of Scotland and the law of Northern Ireland. The laws relating to libel or defamation are different in Scotland and England. I don't know what the libel laws are in NI.

Mark Lewis is right that this is a high award for England but I don't know if it is in NI. The Court of Appeal (if this is appealed) would be in Belfast so it would probably have been better to get a comment from an NI lawyer on the likelihood of the appeal succeeding in reducing the damages. Even if the comparison is with personal injury, it is possible that an defamatory statement would be considered to be more damaging to someone's reputation in NI than it would be in England.

@theskyispink

Paragraph 64 is gold. I think this is my favourite bit:

"Following the hearing on 23 April 2021, I listened to the two podcasts which Dr Jessen produced in May 2020 along with the journalist Alex Stanger in order to ascertain whether there was anything that would give a clue as to Dr Jessen’s state of health at that time. In the podcast entitled “Light At The End of the Lockdown Tunnel” broadcast on 6 May 2020, Dr Jessen complained of having hay fever."

Or this bit, can't decide:

"His co-host Alex Stanger then made a comment about Dr Jessen being in the centre of the town whereas she was out in the sticks. This is at a time when Dr Jessen is supposed to be living with his parents in Fulham. Dr Jessen then started a discussion about misinformation being put out on the internet."

Excellent

There are no UK libel laws or, alternatively there are 3 sets of UK laws. There are the laws of England & Wales, the law of Scotland and the law of Northern Ireland. The laws relating to libel or defamation are different in Scotland and England. I don't know what the libel laws are in NI.

My comment was a tongue in cheek remark about NI being part of the UK.