Editing Daily Mail (section)

==Lawsuits==
* 2017, ''Daily Mail'' editor [[Paul Dacre]] threatened the website ''Byline Investigates'' with legal action and insisted on the removal of three articles about the ''Daily Mail'''s use of private investigator [[Steve Whittamore]].<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.bylineinvestigates.com/mail/2017/11/13/daily-mails-letter-before-action|title=Daily Mail's letter before action|author=Byline Investigates|date=13 March 2017|access-date=1 August 2020|archive-date=9 August 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200809050928/https://www.bylineinvestigates.com/mail/2017/11/13/daily-mails-letter-before-action|url-status=live}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.cpbf.org.uk/2017/03/27/mail-editor-dacre-threatens-start-libel-action/|title=Mail editor Dacre threatens start-up with libel action|author=[[Campaign for Press and Broadcasting Freedom|CPBF]]|date=27 March 2017|access-date=1 August 2020|archive-date=9 August 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200809022049/https://www.cpbf.org.uk/2017/03/27/mail-editor-dacre-threatens-start-libel-action/|url-status=live}}</ref>
* On 15 November 2019, ''Byline Investigates'' published court documents of a lawsuit filed by [[Meghan Markle]] against the ''Daily Mail'' in which she accused the newspaper of a campaign of "untrue" stories.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.foxbusiness.com/lifestyle/meghan-markle-lawsuit-royal-court-daily-mail-prince-harry-uk|title=Meghan Markle tries to prevent 'friends' from being named in suit|date=9 July 2020|website=Associated Press|access-date=1 August 2020|archive-date=2 August 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200802062233/https://www.foxbusiness.com/lifestyle/meghan-markle-lawsuit-royal-court-daily-mail-prince-harry-uk|url-status=live}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.usatoday.com/story/entertainment/celebrities/2020/05/01/duchess-meghan-loses-legal-battle-tabloid-daily-mail-continuing-lawsuit/3063492001/|title=Duchess Meghan loses opening legal battle against British tabloid; she vows to press case|first=Maria|last=Puente|website=USA Today|access-date=1 August 2020|archive-date=4 August 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200804062614/https://www.usatoday.com/story/entertainment/celebrities/2020/05/01/duchess-meghan-loses-legal-battle-tabloid-daily-mail-continuing-lawsuit/3063492001/|url-status=live}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.latimes.com/world-nation/story/2020-07-09/meghan-tries-to-prevent-friends-being-named-in-suit|title=Meghan Markle defends friends' identities in fight with British news outlet|date=9 July 2020|work=Los Angeles Times|access-date=1 August 2020|archive-date=2 August 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200802025945/https://www.latimes.com/world-nation/story/2020-07-09/meghan-tries-to-prevent-friends-being-named-in-suit|url-status=live}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-53580064|title=Meghan bids to keep friends' identities secret|date=29 July 2020|work=BBC News|access-date=1 August 2020|archive-date=2 August 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200802033233/https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-53580064|url-status=live}}</ref>

===Successful lawsuits against the ''Mail''===
* 2001, February: Businessman [[Alan Sugar]] was awarded £100,000 in damages following a story commenting on his stewardship of [[Tottenham Hotspur Football Club]].<ref>Daniel Rogers [https://www.theguardian.com/media/2001/feb/16/dailymail.pressandpublishing Sugar wins libel battle] {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100428070015/http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/2001/feb/16/dailymail.pressandpublishing |date=28 April 2010 }}, 16 February 2001, ''The Guardian''</ref>
* 2003, October: Actress [[Diana Rigg]] was awarded £30,000 in damages over a story commenting on aspects of her personality.<ref>Ciar Byrne [https://www.theguardian.com/media/2003/oct/20/associatednewspapers.privacy Rigg wins case against Associated] {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110113195613/http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/2003/oct/20/associatednewspapers.privacy |date=13 January 2011 }}, 20 October 2003, ''The Guardian''</ref>
* 2006, May: Musician  [[Elton John]] received £100,000 damages following false accusations concerning his manners and behaviour.<ref>Jacqueline Maley, [https://www.theguardian.com/uk/2006/may/25/pressandpublishing.media Elton John gets £100,000 for Daily Mail libel] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120603125943/http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2006/may/25/pressandpublishing.media|date=3 June 2012}}, 25 May 2006, ''[[The Guardian]]''<!--accessed 31-August-2009--></ref>
* 2009, January: £30,000 award to Austen Ivereigh, who had worked for [[Cormac Murphy-O'Connor|Cardinal Cormac Murphy-O'Connor]], following false accusations made by the newspaper concerning abortion.<ref>Oliver Luft and agencies, [https://www.theguardian.com/media/2009/jan/29/daily-mail-libel-catholic-abortion Daily Mail pays out after alleging former Catholic PR man was hypocrite] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090201135452/http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/2009/jan/29/daily-mail-libel-catholic-abortion|date=1 February 2009}}, 29 January 2009, ''The Guardian''<!--accessed 31-August-2009--></ref>
* 2010, July: £47,500 award to Parameswaran Subramanyam for falsely claiming that he secretly sustained himself with hamburgers during a 23-day hunger strike in Parliament Square to draw attention to the [[protests against the Sri Lankan Civil War]] in 2009.<ref>[https://www.theguardian.com/media/2010/jul/29/daily-mail-sun-parameswaran-subramanyam Daily Mail and Sun pay out to Tamil hunger striker] {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130709140327/http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/2010/jul/29/daily-mail-sun-parameswaran-subramanyam |date=9 July 2013 }}, 29 July 2010, ''The Guardian''</ref>
* 2011, November: the former lifestyle adviser [[Carole Caplin]] received damages over claims in the ''Mail'' that she would reveal intimate details about former clients.<ref>[https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-15537612 "Blair adviser Carole Caplin wins Daily Mail libel damages"] {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120303211645/http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-15537612 |date=3 March 2012 }}, BBC News, 1 November 2011</ref>
* 2014, May: Author [[J. K. Rowling]] received "substantial damages" and the ''Mail'' printed an apology. The newspaper had made a false claim about Rowling's story written for the website of [[Gingerbread (charity)|Gingerbread]], a single parents' charity.<ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-27312080 |title=Daily Mail pays damages to JK Rowling |work=BBC News |publisher=BBC |date=7 May 2014 |access-date=7 May 2014 |archive-date=18 March 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200318014908/https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-27312080 |url-status=live }}</ref>
* 2017, April: [[First Lady of the United States]], [[Melania Trump]], received an undisclosed settlement over claims in the ''Mail'' that she had worked as an escort in the 1990s.<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-39575680|title=Melania Trump wins damages from Daily Mail over 'escort' allegation|date=12 April 2017|work=BBC News|access-date=12 April 2017|archive-date=12 April 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170412100201/http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-39575680|url-status=live}}</ref> In September 2016, she began litigation against the ''Daily Mail'' for an article which discussed escort allegations. The article included rebuttals and said that there was no evidence to support the allegations. The ''Mail'' regretted any misinterpretation that could have come from reading the article, and retracted it from its website.<ref>{{cite news|title=Melania Trump: A retraction|url=https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3769798/Melania-Trump-retraction.html|access-date=9 November 2016|work=Daily Mail|date=1 September 2016|archive-date=9 November 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161109223234/http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3769798/Melania-Trump-retraction.html|url-status=live}}</ref> Melania Trump filed a lawsuit in Maryland, suing for $150&nbsp;million.<ref>{{cite news|title=Melania Trump sues Daily Mail and US blogger for $150m over sex worker claims|url=https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-37253025|access-date=9 November 2016|work=BBC News|date=2 September 2016|archive-date=10 November 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161110043334/http://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-37253025|url-status=live}}</ref> On 7 February 2017, the lawsuit was re-filed in the correct jurisdiction, New York, where the ''Daily Mail''{{'}}s parent company has offices, seeking damages of at least $150&nbsp;million.<ref>{{Cite news|date=7 February 2017|title=Melania Trump re-files Daily Mail lawsuit over 'lost business opportunities'|language=en-GB|work=BBC News|url=https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-38898530|access-date=9 December 2020|archive-date=6 May 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210506234801/https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-38898530|url-status=live}}</ref>
* 2018, June: [[Charles Spencer, 9th Earl Spencer|Earl Spencer]] accepted undisclosed libel damages from Associated Newspapers over a claim that he acted in an "unbrotherly, heartless and callous way" towards his sister [[Diana, Princess of Wales]].<ref>{{cite web | last=Lawyer | first=PA Media | title=Earl Spencer wins libel damages from Daily Mail publisher over claim he was 'unbrotherly' towards Princess Diana after her 'marriage collapsed' | website=Press Gazette | date=27 June 2018 | url=https://pressgazette.co.uk/earl-spencer-wins-libel-damages-from-daily-mail-publisher-over-claim-he-was-unbrotherly-towards-princess-diana-after-her-marriage-collapsed/ | access-date=4 October 2021 | archive-date=4 October 2021 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211004132201/https://pressgazette.co.uk/earl-spencer-wins-libel-damages-from-daily-mail-publisher-over-claim-he-was-unbrotherly-towards-princess-diana-after-her-marriage-collapsed/ | url-status=live }}</ref>
* 2019, June: Associated Newspapers paid £120,000 in damages plus costs to [[Interpal]], a UK-based charity which the ''Mail'' falsely accused of funding a "hate festival" in Palestine which acted out the murder of Jews.<ref>{{cite web | last=Weaver | first=Matthew | title=Daily Mail pays charity damages over 'hate festival' allegations | website=The Guardian | date=13 June 2019 | url=http://www.theguardian.com/media/2019/jun/13/daily-mail-pays-interpal-charity-damages-over-hate-festival-allegations | access-date=4 October 2021 | archive-date=28 April 2021 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210428221914/https://www.theguardian.com/media/2019/jun/13/daily-mail-pays-interpal-charity-damages-over-hate-festival-allegations | url-status=live }}</ref>
* 2020, November: The ''Mail'' agreed to pay libel damages of £25,000 and apologised for distress caused to [[University of Cambridge]] professor [[Priyamvada Gopal]], who they had falsely claimed "was attempting to incite an aggressive and potentially violent race war".<ref>{{cite web | last=Vides | first=Gaby | title=Daily Mail apologies and pays £25,000 in damages to Professor Gopal over "false" racism allegations | website=Varsity Online | date=4 October 2021 | url=https://www.varsity.co.uk/news/20190 | access-date=4 October 2021 | archive-date=4 October 2021 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211004131508/https://www.varsity.co.uk/news/20190 | url-status=live }}</ref>
* 2020, December: The ''Mail'' paid businessman [[James Dyson]] and his wife Lady Deirdre Dyson £100,000 in libel damages after suggesting they had behaved badly towards their former housekeeper.<ref>{{cite web | last=Tobitt | first=Charlotte | title=Daily Mail pays out £100,000 to Sir James Dyson over misreporting of row with housekeeper | website=Press Gazette | date=11 December 2020 | url=https://www.pressgazette.co.uk/daily-mail-pays-out-100000-to-sir-james-dyson-over-misreporting-of-row-with-housekeeper/ | access-date=4 October 2021 | archive-date=9 January 2022 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220109072353/https://pressgazette.co.uk/daily-mail-pays-out-100000-to-sir-james-dyson-over-misreporting-of-row-with-housekeeper/ | url-status=live }}</ref>
* 2021, January: Associated Newspapers paid damages and apologised to a British Pakistani couple about whom they had made false allegations in relation to their work as counter-extremism experts.<ref>{{cite web | last=Shah | first=Murtaza Ali | title=British-Pakistani cage fighter and wife win defamation case in UK – World | website=Geo.tv | date=30 January 2021 | url=https://www.geo.tv/latest/332469-british-pakistani-cagefighter-and-wife-win-defamation-case | access-date=4 October 2021 | archive-date=4 October 2021 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211004131445/https://www.geo.tv/latest/332469-british-pakistani-cagefighter-and-wife-win-defamation-case | url-status=live }}</ref>
* 2021, May: Associated Newspapers paid substantial damages and apologised after revealing the identity of a complainant in a rape case against film director [[Luc Besson]].<ref>{{cite web | last=Gentleman | first=Amelia | title=Associated Newspapers pays damages for revealing Sand Van Roy as Luc Besson accuser | website=The Guardian | date=21 May 2021 | url=http://www.theguardian.com/media/2021/may/21/associated-newspapers-pays-damages-for-revealing-sand-van-roy-as-luc-besson-accuser | access-date=4 October 2021 | archive-date=10 October 2021 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211010000557/https://www.theguardian.com/media/2021/may/21/associated-newspapers-pays-damages-for-revealing-sand-van-roy-as-luc-besson-accuser | url-status=live }}</ref>

===Unsuccessful lawsuits===
* 1981, April: The ''Daily Mail'' won £750,000 from the [[Unification Church]], which had sued for libel due to articles about the Church's recruitment methods. [[Margaret Singer]], professor of psychiatry at the [[University of California, Berkeley]], testified that the ''Mail''{{'}}s accounts of these methods were accurate. The trial lasted over five months, one of Britain's longest-ever civil trials.<ref>{{cite news|last1=Borders|first1=William|title=Moon'a Sect Loses Libel Suit in London|url=https://www.nytimes.com/1981/04/01/world/moon-s-sect-loses-libel-suit-in-london.html|access-date=27 December 2015|work=The New York Times|date=1 November 1981|url-access=limited|archive-date=5 January 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160105231914/http://www.nytimes.com/1981/04/01/world/moon-s-sect-loses-libel-suit-in-london.html|url-status=live}}</ref>
* 2012, February: [[Nathaniel Rothschild, 5th Baron Rothschild|Nathaniel Rothschild]] lost his libel case against the ''Daily Mail'', after the High Court agreed that he was indeed the "Puppet Master" for [[Peter Mandelson]], that his conduct had been "inappropriate in a number of respects" and that the words used by the ''Daily Mail'' were "substantially true".<ref>{{cite news | url=https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/rothschild-loses-libel-case-and-reveals-secret-world-of-money-and-politics-6720015.html | work=The Independent | first=Tom | last=Peck | title=Rothschild loses libel case, and reveals secret world of money and politics | date=11 February 2012 | location=London | access-date=26 August 2017 | archive-date=15 September 2017 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170915003253/http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/rothschild-loses-libel-case-and-reveals-secret-world-of-money-and-politics-6720015.html | url-status=live }}</ref><ref>{{cite news| url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/politics/9073717/Nathaniel-Rothschild-loses-High-Court-libel-battle.html |archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/archive/20220111/https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/politics/9073717/Nathaniel-Rothschild-loses-High-Court-libel-battle.html |archive-date=11 January 2022 |url-access=subscription |url-status=live | work=The Daily Telegraph | first=Victoria | last=Ward | title=Nathaniel Rothschild loses High Court libel battle | date=10 February 2012 | location=London}}{{cbignore}}</ref>
* 2012, May: Carina Trimingham, the partner of former [[Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change]] [[Chris Huhne]], was ordered to pay more than £400,000 after she lost her High Court claims for damages for alleged breach of privacy and harassment against the ''Daily Mail''.<ref>{{cite news | url=https://www.theguardian.com/media/2012/may/24/carina-trimingham-privacy-case-daily-mail | work=The Guardian | first=Ben | last=Dowell | title=Carina Trimingham loses privacy case against Daily Mail | date=24 May 2012 | location=London | access-date=11 December 2016 | archive-date=21 December 2016 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161221110600/https://www.theguardian.com/media/2012/may/24/carina-trimingham-privacy-case-daily-mail | url-status=live }}</ref> Huhne, whilst married, had an affair with Trimingham – who herself was in a lesbian civil partnership – and then later left his wife [[Vicky Pryce]] for Trimingham. This and a series of other events involving Pryce and Huhne led to his resignation from the [[Cameron–Clegg coalition|Cabinet]], and to both of them being arrested for [[perverting the course of justice]] and the criminal prosecution ''[[R v Huhne and Pryce]]''.<ref>{{cite news | url=https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2095886/Chris-Huhne-resigns-speeding-points-Minister-ex-wife-Vicky-Price-court.html | work=Daily Mail | first=James | last=Chapman | title=Huhne pays for his infidelity: Minister's career in ruins as feud with ex-wife lands them both in court over speeding points | location=London | date=3 February 2012 | access-date=3 December 2018 | archive-date=15 August 2019 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190815041933/https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2095886/Chris-Huhne-resigns-speeding-points-Minister-ex-wife-Vicky-Price-court.html | url-status=live }}</ref>
* 2021: Former US congress representative [[Katie Hill]] was judicially ordered to reimburse the ''Daily Mail'' and others $220,000 for legal fees incurred defending themselves against baseless revenge porn claims raised by Hill.<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.latimes.com/politics/story/2021-06-02/katie-hill-attorneys-fees-revenge-porn|title=Katie Hill ordered to pay $220,000 in attorneys' fees in revenge porn case|date=3 June 2021|work=Los Angeles Times|access-date=5 June 2021|archive-date=5 June 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210605131920/https://www.latimes.com/politics/story/2021-06-02/katie-hill-attorneys-fees-revenge-porn|url-status=live}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.foxnews.com/media/katie-hill-ordered-to-pay-220000-in-lawyer-fees-in-revenge-porn-suit-report|title=Katie Hill ordered to pay $220,000 in lawyer fees in revenge porn suit: report|first=Edmund|last=DeMarche|date=3 June 2021|work=Fox News|access-date=5 June 2021|archive-date=5 June 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210605131919/https://www.foxnews.com/media/katie-hill-ordered-to-pay-220000-in-lawyer-fees-in-revenge-porn-suit-report|url-status=live}}</ref>

===Legal action by the ''Daily Mail''===
In March 2021, Associated Newspapers issued a letter to [[ViacomCBS]] to remove an image of a purported ''Daily Mail'' headline from ''[[Oprah with Meghan and Harry]]''. The headline seen was "Meghan's seed will taint our Royal Family", which had been edited to remove the context that it was a quotation by an unrelated politician.<ref>{{cite news |last1=Turvill |first1=William |title=Meghan interview: CBS accused of 'deliberate distortion and doctoring' by Daily Mail over headlines montage |url=https://www.pressgazette.co.uk/meghan-headines-montage/ |access-date=13 March 2021 |work=Press Gazette |date=12 March 2021 |archive-date=12 March 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210312192357/https://pressgazette.co.uk/meghan-headines-montage/ |url-status=live }}</ref>