I promised you last week that I would let you see the second judgment of the Court of Appeal in the libel case brought by Richard Desmond against Tom Bower.

This was the rul

Mr Justice Eady was overturned by the Court of Appeal on two occasions while trying the libel case brought by the newspaper proprietor Richard Desmond against Tom Bower, the author. The written judgment in the first of these appeals is

Tom Bower is a friend of mine but that is no reason for not congratulating him on his success in defeating a libel claim against him by the newspaper proprietor, Richard Desmond.

Bower's publishers HarperCollins -- and their ins