Chris Packham has been forced to pay £200,000 to a pensioner and country sportsman he was accused of pursuing ‘vindictively” through the courts, it has been claimed.
In 2023, the naturalist and BBC presenter was awarded £90,000 in damages after the High Court upheld his defamation claims against two contributors to Country Squire, an online magazine that wrongly accused him of misleading people into donating to a tiger rescue charity.
But his case against Paul Read, a 70-year-old grandfather who was the proofreader for some of the magazine articles, was thrown out by the High Court judge.
It meant Packham, 63, became liable for the pensioner’s legal costs, and Mr Read has now claimed his damages have been dwarfed by that bill.
I mean, seriously, going after the proofreader?
Tessa Gregory, of Leigh Day,
Oh, those grifters? No wonder…..
Lawfare, like real warfare is about going after the right target.
Tactical victories and strategic defeats.
Just look at New York, where that DA prosecuting Trump left right and centre might not just have all her cases overturned on appeal at huge cost to the city, but usher him back into the White House.
Lawyers really are quite stupid people.
ps I also think Packham is a twat, just for the record. How he got on in TV is a mystery to me. I only used to watch these programmes because of that firm buttocked young Amazon Kate Humble.
In the article, Packham is pictured on his “Rewild the Church” campaign. Even the green idiots in the C of E are against that. If you rewild the land, you lose income. So you hasten the collapse of the Church, and they’ll have to sell the land. And it won’t be the rewilders who buy it.
I guess some people have careers as professional attention-seekers.
Ottokring, you don’t seem the BBC type if your attention was drawn to Kate’s firm buttocks. But I do admit the thought of Packham’s buttocks, whatever their condition, makes me feel a bit queasy…
Otto- i remember a law student at uni who’d just covered the the consumer protection act. He’d bought a jacket from a street market. Nothing wrong with it but he tried to take it back quoting chapter and verse. No dice. He got a free vocab lesson though.
Otto, this is the right target.
For its chilling effect.
“Don’t work for the wrong people or we will ruin your life for 3 years, even if you win. Which you can never be sure of. Punk.”
Some years ago my wife knew a group of old dears who would sally forth to visit interesting gardens. She soon discovered their views on telly personalities.
Packham was reckoned a rotter, through and through. A scoundrel.
The people they liked were the trio who made Top Gear which they thought the best comedy show on TV.
Perhaps Twatham could sue Tessa Gregory of Leigh Day for the shite legal advice she provided?
Chris Packham did one of those “An Evening With…” shows at our local theatre when we lived in UK. My wife was a front of house volunteer on the night. When she came home I asked her what was he like.
It was the first time in over 20 years of marriage I’d ever heard he used the c-word.
…heard her use the c-word.
He was a Crun? :-p