Rantzen v Mirror Group Newspapers (1986) Ltd and others

Rantzen v Mirror Group Newspapers (1986) Ltd and others
Court	Court of Appeal of England and Wales
Full case name	Esther Louise Rantzen v Mirror Group Newspapers (1986) Ltd., Brian Radford, Richard Stott and Mirror Group Newspapers plc.
Decided	31 March 1993 (1993-03-31)
Citation(s)	[1993] EWCA Civ 16, [1993] 4 All ER 975
Case history
Appealed from	Queen's Bench Division of the High Court of Justice of England and Wales
Court membership
Judges sitting	Lord Justice Neill, Lord Justice Staughton, Lord Justice Roch
Keywords
libel

Esther Louise Rantzen v Mirror Group Newspapers (1986) Ltd., Brian Radford, Richard Stott and Mirror Group Newspapers plc. [1993] EWCA Civ 16, [1993] 4 All ER 975, also shortened to Rantzen v Mirror Group Newspapers by legal analysts,^[1] is a 1993 English defamation court case. The case was brought by the television presenter Esther Rantzen against Mirror Group Newspapers, publisher of The People which had alleged that Rantzen had protected a child abuser after he had given information about child abuse in a school.

The jury in the case at the Queen's Bench Division of the High Court of Justice of England and Wales found for Rantzen and awarded her £250,000 in damages. The defendants appealed the award to the Court of Appeal of England and Wales where the award was reduced to £110,000 as the court ruled that the damages awarded by the jury had been disproportionate.^[2]