Journalist Ian Bailey today lodged papers in the High Court appealing against the Circuit Court judgment in his libel case against eight newspapers.
The 47-year-old journalist won damages of €8,000 at Cork Circuit Criminal Court against the Sun and the Irish Mirror last month.
He lost his action against six other newspapers which he claimed had defamed him with their coverage of the murder of French woman Ms Sophie Toscan Du Plantier.
Ms Du Plantier was found dead in a laneway at her holiday home near Schull, Co Cork, on December 23rd, 1996.
The six newspapers are also appealing the judgement in which they were awarded three-fifths of their costs.
They are seeking payment of their total costs in the action on the basis that Circuit Criminal Court had ruled in their favour.
