Ireland: : Ryanair ordered to disclose fuel policy and “safety-incidents” to Channel 4 in defamation case

• Autores: Ronan Ó Fathaigh
• Localización: IRIS: Legal Observations of the European Audiovisual Observatory, ISSN-e 1023-8565, Nº. 9, 2015, págs. 17-18
• Idioma: inglés
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• Resumen

  • On 29 July 2015, the Court of Appeal ordered the airline company Ryanair to disclose its fuel policy between 2010 and 2012 to the broadcaster Channel Four Television Corporation, in a pre-trial hearing in Ryanair’s defamation proceedings against the broadcaster. The case arose following an August 2013 edition of Channel 4’s investigative programme Dispatches, which “was to the effect Ryanair had endangered passenger safety by operating a low-fuel policy and by pressuring its pilots to take as little fuel as possible”. The airline issued defamation proceedings over the broadcast, and the broadcaster decided to defend the case on the basis that the “allegations were true”, the defence of “honest opinion”, and of the Defamation Act 2009’s defence of “fair and reasonable publication on a matter of public interest”