The Guardian has said that it will not give financial assistance to its columnist George Monbiot in any legal action brought by Lord McAlpine. Monbiot is among a number of individuals facing potential ...

A tweet by Sally Bercow about Lord McAlpine, which he claims named him as a paedophile, was libellous, the High Court has ruled. The wife of Commons Speaker John Bercow is being sued by the Tory peer ...

Paul Jonson, head of dispute resolution at law firm Pannone, said the site’s users should remember that “a defamatory comment on Twitter is just the same as a defamatory comment on the front page of ...

Lord McAlpine has spoken out about the "wholly false and seriously defamatory" rumours of his involvement in sexual abuse at a children's home in Wrexham. The ex-Conservative Party treasurer and life ...

ITV has reached a £125,000 settlement with Lord McAlpine following a This Morning interview with David Cameron where presenter Phillip Schofield handed the Prime Minister a list of Tory politicians ...

Twitter users who wrongly named Lord McAlpine as being involved in a child sex scandal in North Wales in the eighties following a report on Newsnight, could be sued by the former Conservative ...