Reading around Wikipedia's Private Eye entry, I found this amusing nugget.
Rather funnier than anything in recent issues, I think...
An unlikely piece of British legal history occurred in the case Arkell v. Pressdram. The plaintiff was the subject of an article relating to illicit payments, and for a change the magazine had ample evidence to back up the article. Arkell's lawyers wrote a letter in which, unusually, they said: "Our client's attitude to damages will depend on the nature of your reply". The response consisted, in part, of the following: "We would be interested to know what your client's attitude to damages would be if the nature of our reply were as follows : Fuck off".
Rather funnier than anything in recent issues, I think...
1 comment:
I must confess to using "I refer you to the response of the defendant in Arkell vs Pressdram" quite often as a slow burn insult. Very satisfying.
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