Times Newspapers Permitted to Use Leaked Documents in Libel Defence

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By: Josh Halliday | Guardian.co.uk

Scotland Yard and the Serious Organised Crime Agency (Soca) have lost their bid to block Times Newspapers from using leaked documents to defend a libel action brought by an alleged London gangster.

The publisher of the Times and Sunday Times wants to use the police files in a separate libel trial brought by David Hunt, whom the police and Times Newspapers both allege is the head of an organised crime group.
































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