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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
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Mark Townsend Home affairs editor

Observer’s Carole Cadwalladr facing heavy legal costs in Arron Banks case

Carole Cadwalladr
Carole Cadwalladr arrives at court for the last day of the libel case brought against her by Arron Banks in January 2022. Photograph: Tayfun Salcı/ZUMA Press Wire/Rex Shutterstock

The award-winning Observer and Guardian journalist Carole Cadwalladr has been ordered to pay significant legal costs to the prominent Brexit backer Arron Banks.

Banks, who donated a record £8m to the pro-Brexit Leave.EU campaign group, originally lost his case against Cadwalladr in his libel action over her remarks in a speech and a tweet.

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