Banker to appeal libel decision
BANKER Nathaniel Rothschild has lost his bid to win libel damages over a newspaper story that he said portrayed him as a “puppet-master” who brought together Lord Mandelson and Russian oligarch Oleg Deripaska.
The 40-year-old Swiss-based financier said he would appeal, after Mr Justice Tugendhat ruled that Associated Newspapers had established that the meaning of the May 2010 story in the Daily Mail was substantially true, despite admitted inaccuracies.
The newspaper’s case was that Mr Rothschild took Lord Mandelson, then European commissioner for trade, on a 2005 trip to Siberia in order to impress Mr Deripaska, when he knew, or ought to have known, that if anyone found out about it, Lord Mandelson would have been compromised. It was also said there were grounds for believing that the peer discussed aluminium tariffs with Mr Deripaska and Mr Rothschild, encouraging the relationship.
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antiparasite
Saturday, February 11, 2012 at 02:10 AMCourts? Why does he not ask one of the family to send in the brit and american army to sort him or just steal his cash, are this lot losing their touch?
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