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Senior MP Says Making Papers Pay Both Sides' Legal Costs Is 'Wrong'
- The Guardian, Monday, January 9, 2017 6:57 AM
Plans to saddle newspapers with the cost of legal disputes regardless of fault are "wrong in principle" and could play into the hands of ambulance-chasing lawyers, the head of a parliamentary committee has said. Damian Collins, chairman of the culture, media and sport committee, said the proposals should not be implemented, as they risked harming freedom of the press.
