Oh it’s a match made in fatcat heaven, a fake pilot fish suing a bottom-feeding slurm worm. Beautiful, just beautiful
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TV psychic Sally Morgan is demanding damages of £150,000 from Associated Newspapers over a Daily Mail story accusing her of scamming a vulnerable audience.
The article, published on 22 September, was headlined: “What a load of crystal balls!”
It alleged Morgan pretended to have psychic powers when she was in fact simply repeating instructions from members of her team via a microphone and hidden earpiece, according to a writ lodge at the High Court.
Morgan, who was Princess Diana’s former psychic, claims the story caused substantial damage to her reputation, as well as hurt, distress and embarrassment.
The story was widely reported in the national press at the time but Associated Newspapers is the only publisher named on the writ. The story in question was an opinion piece by the magician and former psychic Paul Zenon.
The Daily Mail published another article on the same day – headlined “Only the lonely believe in ghoulish psychics” – which repeated the substance of the allegations, according to a High Court writ.
Morgan, who is also suing over an online version of the story, claims the paper has failed to provide a full and unequivocal apology or admit the article was defamatory.
She is asking for an injunction banning repetition of the allegations about her.
She is also seeking aggravated damages, citing the serious and offensive nature of the allegations which effectively accused her of perpetrating a deliberate fraud on the public, which struck at the heart of her professional and personal reputation, integrity and honesty – the writ states.
In her High Court writ Morgan describes herself as a professional psychic and claims to have privately helped numerous people overcome traumatic or emotional situations.
Morgan is represented by Graham Atkins of Atkins Thomson.”
Oh this is going to be epic. What tests do you think they courts will run on that tedious deluded gasbag? How will she explain it when she makes a cock-up of them? How will she shift the blame? Let’s all make our predictions.
I predict she will be ‘effected by stress, thus unable to ‘read’ as she normally would.’
January 26, 2012 at 12:23 pm |
I predict she will only be willing to prove how ‘hurt’ she was by the article, and show how she has ‘helped’ people. If anything more rigorous is required she will withdraw and moan about how she is hounded by the evil press.
January 26, 2012 at 12:27 pm |
Taking a gamble though, ain’t she? Can’t see the Wail backing down without a brawl.
January 26, 2012 at 1:08 pm |
I honestly think she testing to see how far claiming ‘offensive’ and ‘damaging to her personal reputation’ will get her in the courtroom. (regarding getting an injunction) She might even believe she has a god given right to be a charlatan since she’s been so successful at it. I dont expect the Wail to back down either though
January 26, 2012 at 1:32 pm |
I’d imagine the case will focus more on the accusation that she was wearing an earpiece and that she was being fed information? Perhaps she has some way of ‘proving’ that the show wasn’t wired that way? Maybe photos of her ears or something to prove she had no earpiece?
I’d imagine it’d be something like that, focus on something she might be able to prove/disprove, rather than going down the ‘No, I really AM a psychic’ road.
January 26, 2012 at 2:47 pm |
Ohh youre right it probably would focus on that though Id laugh my ass off if she tried claiming anything in her ear was simply to help her hearing on stage and in no way connected to someone off stage.
January 26, 2012 at 6:33 pm
T’will be interesting to see what tack she’s going to use all right.
January 26, 2012 at 10:00 pm |
heh “professional pyschic” now there’s a good oxymoron.
This should provide some good entertainment alright.
January 26, 2012 at 11:02 pm |
Exactly, let’s see what her defence is!
January 27, 2012 at 10:22 am |
poxymoran
January 30, 2012 at 11:58 am |
Be very curious to see if the learned m’lud types can come up with a legal definition of ‘psychic’… which might then open up a world of false advertising claims against psychics who aren’t psychic.
January 30, 2012 at 11:59 am |
Talk about heading down the rabbit hole!
January 30, 2012 at 2:34 pm
Of course she already knows the outcome of the case….