British Woman's Twitter Comments Spark Expensive Libel Claims

An anonymous reader writes with this excerpt from the BBC: "A woman who complained about an unpaid £146 invoice is facing a libel battle that could cost her more than £100,000. Lesley Kemp, 55, took to Twitter claiming that a company based in the Middle East had failed to pay her promptly for transcription work. Now the firm is suing Mrs Kemp, of Milton Keynes, for defamation, claiming up to £50,000 in damages and a further £70,000 in costs. The company, Resolution Productions, based in Qatar, has yet to comment."

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Re:This is a classic libel case

[Kuroji]

This is Britain. All they have to do is say 'she said these bad-but-true things with the intention of hurting our reputation' and they win. That's all there is to it.