Melania Trump: awarded damages after the Daily Mail published "false and defamatory claims" about her past. Sipa USA/SIPA USA/PA Images. All rights reserved.In the world of libel law these have been busy days. Here are five big things that have happened.
1. The Daily Mail agreed to pay Melania Trump “more than £2m” as it admitted publishing "false and defamatory claims" about her past.
2. The Mail’s editor, Paul Dacre, and two of his executives beat a humiliating retreat in their efforts to gag the online journalism platform Byline by threatening a libel action it hoped Byline could not afford to fight.
