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Bates loses libel appeal
08 Dec 2009 - 15:38:47
Leeds United chairman Ken Bates has failed to overturn a High Court ruling that he libelled Melvyn Levi.
Bates was forced to pay out £50,000 for defamatory comments he made about Levi in three match-day programme articles in 2006 and 2007.
The articles described Levi as "a shyster" and an "enemy within" while Bates also suggested that he had attempted to blackmail the club and had scared off potential investors.
At the Court of Appeal, Bates' barrister, Jacob Dean, claimed the allegations were "fair comment" but Lord Justice Hooper disagreed, saying that the defence was "doomed to failure".
Levi later said: "I hope this draws to a conclusion Mr Bates' attacks on me."
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