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Particularly because there's no legal aid for defamation! It's an old fashioned law designed to protect the rich and powerful.
Yep, I can't say what the papers legal teams were thinking but I can imagine the Tory party not wanting a trial where the allegations would be raked through if there was any truth to them at all.
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I might.
So in this instance, the papers either knew they'd be able to substantiate the allegations or gambled they wouldn't be sued because the Tories knew most if not all of the allegations might well be true and they didn't want to have the story run and run. Because I'm guessing their lawyers looked at the reporting and gave it the green light.