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  UKIP faces bankruptcy over MEP defamation case
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Last EditedIndyGeorgia  Mar 19, 2018 06:25pm
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AuthorPaul Dallison
News DateMonday, March 19, 2018 10:45:00 PM UTC0:0
DescriptionThe United Kingdom Independence Party faces financial ruin after being ordered to pay £175,000 in legal costs in a defamation case.

If the party does not lodge an appeal, it will have to find the cash in just two weeks, the Guardian reported.

Last month, a court ruled that UKIP deliberately made sure a defamation case against one of its MEPs wasn’t settled before the 2015 general election. That means the legal costs in the case increased substantially, which resulted in the £175,000 bill handed down on Monday.

The case involves Jane Collins, a UKIP MEP, who last year was ordered to pay £54,000 in damages to each of three Labour members of the Westminster parliament over remarks she made in 2014 about a child abuse scandal in the northern town of Rotherham, the area the MPs represent.

Collins had claimed the MPs knew many details of the scandal — in which more than 1,400 children were abused over a 16-year period — but chose not to intervene. The three Labour MPs sued her for libel and slander but Collins refused to withdraw her remarks during the 2015 general election campaign and, the court heard, repeatedly tried to delay the case.
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