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Blake, Seymour & Thorp v Fox [2021]
Background The claim was brought by Simon Blake, Colin Seymour and Nicola Thorp who accused Laurence Fox, a former London mayoral candidate, of defaming them after he called them paedophiles on Twitter. The comments followed a tweet from the supermarket Sainsbury’s supporting Black History Month which led to the defendant calling for people to boycott the supermarket. The defendant served a Defence disputing defamatory meaning and serious harm, while also serving a Countercla