What's Happened In The Cliff Richard Case Against The Bbc? Anything?

[10ClarionSt]

I just googled it and it's all stuff from ages ago. What am I doing wrong?

[Baldric]

https://www.google.co.uk/search?q=cliff+richard+suing+BBC&oq=cliff+richard+suing+BBC&aqs=chrome..69i57.15443j0j7&sourceid=chrome&ie=UTF-8

[fiction-factory]

I'm not sure what you searched for or what you man by 'ages ago' but the trial in Hif=gh Court is ongoing and although i don't recall anything this week there was something on the news last week
http://www.theweek.co.uk/cliff-richard/59962/bbc-sir-cliff-richard-court-case

[10ClarionSt]

Thanks Baldric but all those are from April.

[fiction-factory]

Sorry, 'trial'was competely the wrong word. Cliff is suing he BBC and the matter is being heard in the High Court

[ChillDoubt]

Good to see he’s back in favour(heard his ‘Summer Holiday’ being played on an advert last week) and hopefully will give the BBC the hiding they deserve.
I’m all for investigative journalism but when the guy wasn’t even in the country nor subsequently charged it didn’t seem fair and was unwarranted , particularly after Leveson etc.

[johnny.5]

I wish I could help but.......We Don't Talk Anymore

[ChillDoubt]

It’s easy johnny.5


......just get Wired For Sound.

[johnny.5]

butt chill

......I Just Don't Have the Heart

[Georgiesmum]

I understood he got a big pay-off? Didnt he?

[jno]

he got a payoff from the police, I think. Now he wants one from the BBC, who as far as I can see were doing their job in reporting the news.

[Baldric]

https://www.mirror.co.uk/3am/celebrity-news/sir-cliff-richard-celebrates-1million-10519998

[douglas9401]

What's happened so far is public money has been lavished on lawyers doing what lawyers do.

Whatever the bachelor boy ends up with will doubtless be eclipsed by the fees.

[NoMercy]

I hope he bankrupts the BBC. If he'd been a person of ethnic minority their conduct and their agenda would have been very different indeed.

[Peter Pedant]

it is still droning on

the hacks and journos may be on column-inch rate in which case they dont get paid if it isnt printed
and they may not be able to understand the fine details

Here is one from 2003
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/lancashire/3205224.stm and
https://www.theguardian.com/society/2005/mar/09/nhsstaff.health1
which went zoop! in the middle of the process.
Because it wasnt QUITE like that as it later came out in court.... it wasnt the bad black nurse at all - but the inefficient white doctors. - and THAT was never reported

oops yes it was - no oxygen in the room ....
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/merseyside/4333835.stm - trial abandoned

[andy-hughes]

jno - // Now he wants one from the BBC, who as far as I can see were doing their job in reporting the news. //

It could have been said to be news, but I believe, and so do Sir Cliff's lawyers, that they crossed the golden line between what is in the public interest, and what interests the public.

It's not that they reported it, it's that they filmed the police's visit to his property in his absence, which made the whole thing look far more sinister that it turned out to be.

[Postdog]

Hopefully will give the BBC what it deserves. And where does a lot of money for the BBC come from?

[jno]

what's not in the public interest about investigating crime, andy? It's a shame they weren't so assiduous in dealing with allegations against another showbiz figure in recent memory, but that shouldn't stop them doing it with Cliff. It doesn't retrospectively become any more sinister because he's deemed to be innocent; at the time, it was a valid investigation and I believe validly reported.

The police may for all I know have been in breach of proper procedure in inviting a TV crew along (though it's hardly the first tiem this has happened); it doesn't follow that the BBC broke any rules in going.

[Old_Geezer]

Probably no news because nobody cares.

[naomi24]

I hope Cliff Richard wipes the floor with the BBC. Shameful.

[Mamyalynne]

He's been treated abysmally.