''See You in Court'' is a 2011
BBC One documentary series about celebrities taking
libel
Defamation is the act of communicating to a third party false statements about a person, place or thing that results in damage to its reputation. It can be spoken (slander) or written (libel). It constitutes a tort or a crime. The legal defini ...
action against the media.
Episodes
Episode 1: 29 March 2011
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Lembit Opik
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*Lembitu (died 1217), Estonian elder and military leader from Sakala County
*Lembit Arro (born 1930), Estonian politician ...
claims that national newspapers made him a figure of fun and caused him to lose his seat in the
2010 general election.
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Sheryl Gascoigne
Sheryl Gascoigne (née Failes; born 24 September 1963) is a British television personality and author. She is the former wife of footballer Paul Gascoigne and the mother of glamour model Bianca Gascoigne. Her television career includes a pres ...
claims that
red top tabloid
Tabloid may refer to:
* Tabloid journalism, a type of journalism
* Tabloid (newspaper format), a newspaper with compact page size
** Chinese tabloid
* Tabloid (paper size), a North American paper size
* Sopwith Tabloid, a biplane aircraft
* ''Ta ...
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defamed her by printing quotes they said were from her ex-husband
Paul and his mother.
Episode 2: 5 April 2011
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Uri Geller challenges red-top articles, and an American television programme, about his relationship with
Michael Jackson and alleged connection to
Martin Bashir.
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Ali Dizaei
Jamshid Ali Dizaei ( fa, جمشید علی دیزایی, transliteration: ''Jamshīd ʿAlī Dizaī''; ) (born 1962) is a former Commander in London's Metropolitan Police Service, Iranian-born with dual nationality, and formerly one of Britain's ...
claims newspapers have said things about him that are untrue. He was successful in receiving an apology and payout as a result of an article falsely accusing him of
bigamy. He was convicted of a separate crime, for which he is serving a prison sentence.
Episode 3: 12 April 2011
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Ultramarathon
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runner
Richard Donovan takes action against ''
Forbes'' magazine for their coverage of his
North Pole marathon
The marathon is a long-distance foot race with a distance of , usually run as a road race, but the distance can be covered on trail routes. The marathon can be completed by running or with a run/walk strategy. There are also wheelchair div ...
, which he says in inaccurate and unsatisfactory.
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Finsbury Park Mosque takes action against
Policy Exchange in response to their claim that they distributed extremist literature.
Episode 4: 3 May 2011
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Simon Singh is taken to court over his
claims
Claim may refer to:
* Claim (legal)
* Claim of Right Act 1689
* Claims-based identity
* Claim (philosophy)
* Land claim
* A ''main contention'', see conclusion of law
* Patent claim
* The assertion of a proposition; see Douglas N. Walton
* A righ ...
about
chiropractic.
*Tristran Rogers
Episode 5: 10 May 2011
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George Galloway
George Galloway (born 16 August 1954) is a British politician, broadcaster, and writer who is currently leader of the Workers Party of Britain, serving since 2019. Between 1987 and 2010, and then between 2012 and 2015, Galloway was a Member o ...
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Danielle Lloyd
Episode 6: 17 May 2011
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References
External links
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2011 British television series debuts
2011 British television series endings
2010s British documentary television series
BBC high definition shows
BBC television documentaries
2010s British television miniseries
2010s British legal television series
Defamation
British English-language television shows