(Journalism.co.uk) Hyperlinked articles will be considered as context in a defamation case currently being brought against the Spectator and its journalist Stephen Pollard.
Lawyers for the defendents have argued that the content hyperlinked to in the allegedly defamatory article makes it clear that the piece does not refer to the claimant, Islam Expo Ltd.
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