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Thu 10 Oct 2009Birmingham Six's right to sue appealed by barrister
AN ENGLISH barrister, Sir Louis Blom-Cooper QC, has appealed against an Irish High Court decision allowing two members of the wrongly jailed Birmingham Six to sue him and his publishers for defamation arising from a pamphlet written by him.
They claim the 1997 pamphlet The Birmingham Six and Other Cases, subtitled Victims of Circumstances, through inference and innuendo meant the quashing of their convictions did not imply they were entitled to be presumed innocent.
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