Lecturer secures damages in first email libel action

A COLLEGE lecturer has secured a High Court apology and damages in settlement of the first libel action arising out of defamatory emails.

Terry Casey, a lecturer in marketing at the School of Business in the Galway-Mayo Institute of Technology (GMIT), sued two colleagues over email attachments circulated by them to other staff in the GMIT in January 2005, the court heard yesterday.

It was sent by the head of Mr Casey’s department, Larry Elwood, on January 26 and recirculated the following day by Deirdre Lusby, head of the Business Studies Department.